Dahlia season quotes:
"The dahlia's first duty in life is to flaunt and to swagger and to
carry gorgeous blooms well above its leaves, and on no account to hang
its head." Gertrude Jekyll, Wood and Garden, 1899.
"Looking at my dahlias one summer day, a friend whose taste runs to the
small and impeccable said sadly, "You do like big conspicuous flowers,
don't you?" She meant vulgar, and I am used to that." Eleanor Perenyi, Green Thoughts, 1981.
Well, that white dahlia above is the only survivor out of dozens grown in this yard over the decades. It's a beauty. Those perfectly symmetrical ball varieties look almost artificial.
It is the very same plant towering over Nova in a long ago forest of flowers.
The others, immortalized on the blog.
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