Favorite Purple Bulbs--TOW

Susan Hayek susanann@sbcglobal.net
Thu, 23 Sep 2004 18:20:53 PDT
**We have a beautiful deep purple dahlia that I bought my husband 
from Old Garden Nursery.
I can't get a decent picture of it. How I see it, is not how my 
camera sees it. I just looked it up and it is Thomas Edison (1939). 
It is much more purple than shown on the Wiki.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
Even the photo from Old Garden Nursery doesn't show the depth of color.
http://oldhousegardens.com/bigFlwr.asp/?Cat=tomEd

I have Ballerina, or one close to it, and it is beautiful (tho' not 
purple, as Mary Sue said), and I have the small purple and white 
bicolor that Mary Sue has on the wiki (We have many of the ones 
pictured).  http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…

I also bought, when we moved up here last year, a dark winey purple 
Dierama, the most beautiful one I have ever seen, really dark, really 
purplish.
The dogs ate it.
I save a few corms and replanted them, but it'll take them awhile to 
adjust and flower again.



At 8:56 PM -0700 9/22/04, Mary Sue Ittner wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I visited the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens this August when the 
>Dahlias were in bloom and took a lot of pictures. They were really 
>beautiful and had a lot of admirers (as did the tuberous Begonias). 
>I wasn't sure whether or not to add them to the wiki since there are 
>Dahlia pictures on so many web pages and there must be thousands of 
>cultivars. I wasn't sure when there were tags whether they 
>corresponded with the plants behind them so most of the ones I saw I 
>was not sure of the names. I've added a few pictures of some that we 
>might try to identify by color (shades between blue and red that we 
>might call ?). I also added one called Ballerina just because it was 
>so pretty. It's not even faintly purple.
>
>http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…


-- 
susan, who is.....
owned by Jasper & Schubert the Standard Poodles, Gracie the 
Rhodesian, Pup-Quiz the Basenji and their Basenji brother, Jones.... 
on the North Coast of CA, USA Zone 9
susanann@sbcglobal.net, copyright 2004


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