Wednesday, September 7, 2011

cafe au lait dahlia

My days are full of flowers right now and I'm loving the stunning ruffly blooms of cafe au lait.  So beautiful. 

I planted just 9 plants in a row this spring and I think I'll have to plant more next year.  They're blooming like crazy these days and I love them grouped together in a big bunch of many blooms.



An arrangement I made for a wedding reception last weekend.  With eucalyptus and grasses.  wow!  Simply and naturally gorgeous!

Here's cafe au lait in some bouquets for a bride and her bridesmaid, bundled together with limelight hydrangea, other dahlias, zinnias, roses, sweet pea and grasses.

I think the unopened buds are beautiful in bouquets too.

Cafe au Lait, I'm going to miss you when the summer's over!

4 comments:

  1. Love your post, shared it at http://www.facebook.com/HamiltonDahlia

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  2. Thanks for letting me know, Mary! I enjoyed looking around your fb page and realized that you're in NZ and your dahlias have been blooming beautifully for a while now....I'm just getting ready to plant mine now! Fun to think of that : )

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  3. Christina, these are gorgeous, do you know where I could purchase some tubers?

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  4. Have bought a bag of tubers and was on the fence. Your post is so generous with pictures, too! Thank you, I got a great sense of how these will look in my garden and am going to plant :)

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