FLORAL ACHIEVEMENT 1: FIVE DAHLIAS

16.08pm 8th august

look at these beauties, five "Moonfire"  submitted by Veg Plotting. I feel she has set the bar extremely high. If you look at the photo you can see (she points out) them also growing in the garden outside.

11 August

James A-S's fabulously classy five "Arabian Nights". He is just so damn classy, Seattle. 

13 August

The Dahlia category hots up with these gorgeous orange blooms from Zoë. Carol Klein recently wrote in the Guardian in praise of orange, and seeing these I'm inclined to agree entirely with the Mighty Klein.

18 August

Another orange extravaganza, this time from patientgardener. Boodiful. 

31 August

Very special dahlias from Colleen at rusinurbis, because the tubers came from her old allotments (the infamous Manor Park ones removed to make way for the Olympic site) to her new one, at Mudchute. Sniff. Rehomed dahlias. It's enough to make you get tearful.