Dahlia ‘Café au Lait’ photographed
in October 2018 after rainfall. I singled out a petal covered
in raindrops resulting in smooth lines that resembled patterns
in a cappuccino. Café au Lait is decorative and has flowers as
big as dinner plates and very popular for wedding bouquets.
Dahlia’s
are stunning, long flowering and very photogenic flowers of
the genus Asteraceae.
According to The National Dahlia Society, the Dahlia has been
in Europe for over two hundred years. It came from Mexico to
the Botanical Gardens in Madrid towards the end of the
eighteenth century. Today, there are cultivars in the form of
the waterlily, the paeony, the orchid, the chrysanthemum and
the anemone, then there are the main formations like the
decorative, the cactus and semi-cactus types and the ball
forms that have as their smallest relative the popular Pompon
dahlias that beguile so many gardeners. |
