On
Saturday August 27th and Sunday August 28th, the Colorado
Dahlia Society will hold its annual show at The Flower Bin, 1805 Nelson Road,
Longmont, Colorado. The show is free and open to the public. You don't have to
be a member of the Colorado Dahlia Society to show your dahlias. You do have to
register your entries by 9:00 AM Saturday morning, August 27th. Each dahlia
must include two leaves along with the blossom, in order to be accepted into
the judging.
Very few plants offer as many colors and forms as dahlias do.
For ongoing fall color,
dahlias are a great choice. Dahlias will bloom from late summer to first frost
and can be grown in containers on the patio or in the garden. According to the
American Dahlia Association, dahlias originated in Central America where they
were called Acocotli and Cocoxochitl by the ancient Aztecs. Spanish explorers
brought the plants back to Europe and it
was a staff member at the Royal Gardens in Madrid, Spain who named the plant
after Swedish botanist Andreas Dahl.
Dahl considered the flower a vegetable. The first varieties with large,
double flowers were bred in Belgium in the early 1800’s.
Now there are hundreds
of varieties to choose from.
Dahlia flowers range in size from less than 2" in diameter
to over 8". There are nineteen forms of Dahlia flower types, from ball to semi-cactus.
Come to the Colorado
Dahlia Society show,
The show runs Saturday August 27th and Sunday August 28th.
See the wide variety of
dahlias you can grow in your own garden.
Talk to other dahlia growers and learn more
about planting, growing and showing dahlias.
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