Property News · April 14, 2023

Bold, brash and easy to grow – the dahlia’s Instagram reign is never over


Get planting now for a summer and autumn garden packed with these colourful bloomsThere’s one flower whose relevance in the zeitgeist fascinates me beyond all others: the dahlia. Bold, brash, blooms as big as your head, they can command devotion bordering on obsession among some flower-growers, especially – and intriguingly – among the relatively inexperienced gardener. This is, I think, because they can be straightforward to grow, and look good on Instagram.I suspect in some gardens dahlias have never been out of fashion. However, they’ve certainly enjoyed a prolonged moment over the past decade. A couple of summers ago, though, I chaired a panel with experts Sarah Raven and Arthur Parkinson, who admitted to being a bit fed up with the cream-coloured queen of Pinterest, dahlia “Café au Lait”. This, combined with their absence during the one-off September Chelsea flower show a few months later, had me convinced the dahlia’s millennial reign was over. Nevertheless, they persevere on Instagram – and life is too short to grow flowers according to trends. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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