I photographed this deep red Dahlia
flower in October 2018. Raindrops on the petals glowed in the
Autumn sunlight and shone through the droplets showing a hint
of the flower stamens. Dahlia’s are stunning, long flowering
and very photogenic flowers. 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.
I was honoured to have my image of
Dahlia ‘Christine’ featured in the National Dahlia Collection
2018 calendar, I subsequently changed the title to ‘Miss
November’. |
