**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
