{"id":135912,"date":"2023-04-14T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/bold-brash-and-easy-to-grow-the-dahlias-instagram-reign-is-never-over\/"},"modified":"2023-04-14T17:11:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T10:11:01","slug":"bold-brash-and-easy-to-grow-the-dahlias-instagram-reign-is-never-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/bold-brash-and-easy-to-grow-the-dahlias-instagram-reign-is-never-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Bold, brash and easy to grow \u2013 the dahlia\u2019s Instagram reign is never over"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nGet planting now for a summer and autumn garden packed with these colourful bloomsThere\u2019s 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 \u2013 and intriguingly \u2013 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\u2019ve 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 \u201cCaf\u00e9 au Lait\u201d. This, combined with their absence during the one-off September Chelsea flower show a few months later, had me convinced the dahlia\u2019s millennial reign was over. Nevertheless, they persevere on Instagram \u2013 and life is too short to grow flowers according to trends. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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