Day 300: Dahlia 'Penhill Watermelon'

Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year

Has anyone, I wonder, ever taken a photograph of Dahlia ‘Penhill Watermelon’ in which the subject looked less than spectacular? At any time of year whilst she’s been in bloom? She’s like one of those sickeningly gorgeous friends who looks stunning even at three o’clock in the morning, all bedraggled with mascara running down her cheeks and an old fag butt stuck in her barnet. Just now, she (the dahlia, not the friend) is still managing to look quite perky, but give it a week or so, and maybe an early frost, and there will be languid, but infuriatingly fabulous, decrepitude.


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