Swan Island Dahlias Redux

Swan Island Dahlias are the premier and the largest dahlia grower in the world. Fortunately, they are a short drive from my home and I can peek in on them all during the growing season.

It is a place you have to go to personally to appreciate.  My photos do not do them justice.

Red Dinner Plate Dahlias

Yellow Dahlias

1) Encyclopedia of Dahlias (In this delightful and profusely illustrated encyclopedia, noted hybridizer and nurseryman Bill McClaren provides an authoritative account of garden-worthy dahlias for every garden design. Nearly 700 selections are included, complete with notes on their history, awards, and cultural peculiarities. Additional chapters on dahlia care and propagation, dahlia species in nature, hybridizing, and showing dahlias add to this well-rounded overview. Thorough appendices with resources on dahlia societies, nurseries, and gardens complete the book.)

2) Dahlias: A Colour Guide (A Colour Guide profiles some 1,800 varieties of this stunning popular flower. Arranged in alphabetical order, and illustrated throughout with over 500 color photographs, it is essential for both dahlia enthusiasts and exhibitors.)

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Purple Dahlias

Orange Dahlias

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Flower Garden Pictures Seven

We have flowers galore in our yard. Pictured here are an English Roses, a Day Lilies, a Mr. Lincoln Rose and a Yellow Dahlia.

We have a huge yard with lots of flowers. Lots of hanging baskets, grapes, blue berries, raspberries and of course two vegetable gardens.

Please enjoy!

A great and recommended book from Amazon: Flowers By Carolyne Roehm  (With a gardener’s understanding and a an elegant eye, the author shows us the flowers she has cultivated for decades in and around her historic Connecticut home. While alternating dramatic close-ups with portraits of lovely arrangements and sweeping views of her land, Roehm writes with wit, emotion, and affection of what flowers have meant to her, as well as of the joys and travails of the committed gardener’s life.)

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English Rose

Day Lily

Mr.Lincoln Rose

Dahlia

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