A message on my phone reminded me that I had photographed these dahlias on this day last year. Naturally, I went out to have another look at these delightfully daring dahlias that are the two survivors of a punnet of six seedlings planted some years ago. They have survived the heat and the drought – there was no sign of them for a couple of ears in a row – and here they are.
Their leaves appeared after the first rain at the beginning of November. Since then they have grown taller and are looking robust and healthy. The red one usually has two blooms at once – I am only showing you the one as the other has been chomped by something.
The creamy yellow one has a more complicated structure of petals and has only ever shown one bloom at a time.
They are providing a welcome spot of colour as we enter the festive season.
Something Over Tea 
Lovely!
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Thank you, the provide a lot of joy.
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Excellent find
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I am so happy the conditions have been right for them to come up again this summer!
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How exhilarating to have a red dahlia in the garden now along with a gorgeous yellow one to cheer you on through the season.
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Their colours pop out in this green corner 🙂
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Happy photos, both single and double Dahlias.
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Thank you, Jaya.
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A happy surprise! Being tubers, I expect they have reserves that can get them through drought. Not hardy here, I have to dig and store mine over winter. I envy those who can just leave them in the ground!
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I am fortunate that I leave tubers and bulbs in the ground to be surprised when they spring to life again when the conditions are right.
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What a beautiful Christmas gift!
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I think so too 🙂
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Lovely to see as the temperatures drop in my corner of the world!
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I am glad to have sent you some warmth and bright cheer from my corner of the world 🙂
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I like to see dahlias so this was a treat at this time of year for us.
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I am pleased about that.
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Dahlias were my mother’s favourite flower. Such a variety of types and blooms! Our family are not great gardeners, but she only once tried to grow them in a garden. She forgot to water them so it wasn’t a great success. I have never tried, but I read they can be grown in pots so I shall try, one day.
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I am no great gardener either. These were given to me as seedlings and, apart from watering them, they have to survive on their own 🙂
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Lovely. We moved house a lot and so some half decent gardener who moved in to that house, and who started watering properly, would benefit from these lovely flowers 😃
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All that rain brought a wealth of blooms this year and last year too I’m guessing (I wasn’t following you then).
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The longed for rain has brought forth an array of wild flowers we haven’t seen for years.
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That happened in the mountains in California a few years ago too Anne. It was quite a phenomenon. All those years of arid weather – no flowers. People came from all over to see the abundance of wildflowers. I looked for a picture to show you as the colors looked like opening a crayon box. Here’s a sample in the top picture:
https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/14/weather/california-super-bloom/index.html
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Lovely!
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Thank you very much, Aletta.
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😀
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