The Red Dahlia in Our Garden

Oh how beautiful these flowers are!  These red dahlias are truly lovely.  I usually buy  different colours of these flowers every summer. It is a  bushy  and herbaceous  perennial plants. When autumn time is almost coming, I dig it again from our garden and store in a cool dry place.  It cannot withheld freezing cold temperature during winter time. When spring time comes, I usually plant it again.

For you info, Dahlia is the national flower of Mexico. I believed they had a good choice!

These beautiful red dahlias in our garden.

The Yellow Dahlias in Our Garden

I haven't seen the flowers of the dahlias until now in our garden. I replanted some last spring time but everytime the leaves are growing the snails are eating them. These pests are really unstoppable.

Dahlias are herbaceous perennial plants. Like sunflower, daisy and chrysanthemum, they are members of the Asteraceae or Compositae, dicotyledonous plants. I love these flowers and hope to see them this year before autumn time comes.

The Yellow Dahlias in our garden. Also known as Dahlia x hybrida. This image was taken last summer 2011.

Flowers and More Flowers

How's your Saturday peeps! I hope you had a fantastic one. I am thankful after feeling better from a bit headache. I guess this was caused by a visitor who always comes monthly to me. Thanks goodness that I am back to normal now.

Anyway to continue with my post.. I was browsing the picture files from my external drive and found some flowers which I took last summer 2009. I only remember the name of the first flower. This is Dahlia.

red Dahlia.

colorful flowers in my friend's garden. anyone can tell me its name? I am quite lazy to find it in my list..lol! thanks!

it seems that an alien is trying to sip this flower's beauty.

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Yellow Dahlias in Our Garden

It seems that the author of this site is quite busy for a long time. Yes, she is. She had a vacation in Spain last time, the holiday season, some tasks online and offline and so many things that she is taking care of. She has finally the chance to update this blog.

Here are some dahlias from our garden last summer. I love these flowers and can't wait to see them again next year.

I also hope that everyone had a wonderful and memorable Christmas. I am wishing you all in advance a happy New Year!

Dahlias grow naturally in climates which do not experience frost, consequently they are not adapted to withstand sub-zero temperatures. However their tuberous nature enables them to survive periods of dormancy, and this characteristic means that gardeners in temperate climates with frosts can grow dahlias successfully, provided the tubers are lifted from the ground and stored in cool yet frost-free conditions during the winter.

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Beautiful Dahlia in our Garden

Dahlia is a genus of bushy, tuberous, perennial plants native to Mexico, Central America, and Colombia. There are at least 36 species of dahlia, some like D. imperialis up to 10 metres tall. Dahlia hybrids are commonly grown as garden plants. The Aztecs gathered and cultivated the dahlia for food, ceremonies, as well as decorative purposes, and the long woody stem of one variety was used for small pipes.

Dahlias are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Angle Shades, Common Swift, Ghost Moth and Large Yellow Underwing. wikipedia.

the beautiful dahlia in our garden. sad to say, it did not survive the last cold winter.