Dahlia Photos: the sublime to the blurry forum: Macro & Artsy images of Dahlias

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PNWGal Sep 2, 2015 4:01 PM CST Name: Linda Portland OR, zone 8b

I especially like the one with the Hummingbird Moth - I don't think I've ever seen one of those. Quote | Post #1158952 (1)

mandolls Sep 3, 2015 5:29 AM CST Name: Geof WI

Good call Ted! Quote | Post #1159050 (2)

edewitt Sep 3, 2015 8:48 AM CST Name: Eric DeWitt Mountainair, NM

Grayval Shiraz, upclose and personal. Quote | Post #1159083 (3)

teddahlia Sep 3, 2015 8:51 AM CST Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!

Nice picture of the Aussie cut flower. Cut flower people should know that this one is one of the best for cut flowers. We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden. Quote | Post #1159085 (4)

edewitt Sep 3, 2015 8:55 AM CST Name: Eric DeWitt Mountainair, NM

The plant is huge with a ton of blooms on their way. Quote | Post #1159087 (5)

DarcyD Sep 4, 2015 7:29 AM CST Name: Darcy D Green Oaks, Illinois

I'm liking my Grayval Shiraz...it's very, very prolific. With nicely formed blooms & keeps it's dark color in full sun for me. Compared with 3-4 similar this is my fav. Pretty pic! Quote | Post #1159214 (6)

Islander Sep 9, 2015 6:05 PM CST Name: Noni Morrison Warren, Oregon retired flower farmer

Can't wait for my new camera to get here! I ordered the Olympus Tough 4 because I have really liked the photos I got from my "3" but the whole downloading thing is where I have had problems. Now they download by wi-fi so I will hopefully do better with that. It might be here as soon as Friday, and I can't wait to go take photos! The garden is getting quite colorful again after stripping it bare last Sunday morning! Salish Dahlias Quote | Post #1160060 (7)

edewitt Sep 11, 2015 9:42 AM CST Name: Eric DeWitt Mountainair, NM

Irish Embers My frist decent looking River's Novelty bloom. Verrone's Obsidian Maisie Moonie Dorothy R Quote | Post #1160344 (8)

DarcyD Sep 11, 2015 12:50 PM CST Name: Darcy D Green Oaks, Illinois

Very nice! Quote | Post #1160366 (9)

edewitt Sep 11, 2015 6:01 PM CST Name: Eric DeWitt Mountainair, NM

Thanks! My viewfinder is so tiny on my camera it's a bit of a crapshoot knowing if the point I want to focus in on is actually in focus sometimes. Quote | Post #1160392 (10)

teddahlia Sep 11, 2015 6:32 PM CST Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!

I wish someone had a hive of bees in our neighborhood. We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden. Quote | Post #1160397 (11)

DarcyD Sep 14, 2015 6:57 AM CST Name: Darcy D Green Oaks, Illinois

Good one! We have two hives of bees in our neighborhood...maybe even three. There is an apple orchard about half block away from us & they have a lot. My hubby really wants to start a hive too. I don't know that he'll ever have time to get to it, but I hope so. Quote | Post #1160746 (12)

teddahlia Sep 16, 2015 6:01 PM CST Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!

To me it looks like someone went wild with an airbrush. 2014 seedling. We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden. Quote | Post #1161238 (13)

Islander Sep 16, 2015 10:06 PM CST Name: Noni Morrison Warren, Oregon retired flower farmer

I like it when it is a spray of little dots,rather then the big splatters of some like white rabbit. I had one a bit more like this from Tall Grass Farms...some name with "Polly' in the name....it didn't make much in the way of tubers and I lost it. Salish Dahlias Quote | Post #1161296 (14)

addicted Sep 17, 2015 7:58 PM CST Name: Em NY

Nice! Em in NY Dahlias -- the gift that keeps on giving! Quote | Post #1161461 (15)

PNWGal Oct 23, 2015 3:35 PM CST Name: Linda Portland OR, zone 8b

Amazing site with photos of various flowers from full view to macro to microscopic detail. http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www... Hybridizers especially take note - he has a page on dahlias, but the page on Blanket Flower / Gaillardia is better. It shows in great detail what happens when the disc florets bloom. The petals of each floret are fused into a tube, and the pollen-producing anthers are on the inside of the tube. The pistil has bristles on its outside, which catch the pollen as they grow and emerge from the tube, so that they LOOK like stamens covered with pollen on the face of the flower. The real stamens & anthers stay down inside the tube, where we can't see them. After the pollen-covered pistil has been up for a day or two, the tip splits and the sticky, pollen-receptive surfaces of the stigma are exposed. This explains why it is so hard to distinguish between the male and female parts of the floret. Even the part we see covered with pollen is the female part. We never see the male parts. Quote | Post #1166676 (16)

teddahlia Oct 27, 2015 12:02 PM CST Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/aeriedesign/21289312613/in/pho... Picture of Hollyhill Cotton Candy on Flickr. Those micro photos are interesting. I saw a set of them years ago but cannot find them on my hard drive. We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden. [Last edited Oct 27, 2015 1:04 PM CST] Quote | Post #1167138 (17)

Benny101 Oct 27, 2015 7:07 PM CST Greenville MI - zone 5b

This is an interesting dahlia entry at Grand Rapids Art Prize competition . https://www.artprize.org/krista-schoening/2015/karma-dahlia-... Here is a link to the artists page , I know squat about art but the Pink Peonies painting is fantastic . http://www.kristaschoening.com/ Quote | Post #1167205 (18)

teddahlia Oct 27, 2015 7:46 PM CST Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!

Wow! very nice! We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden. Quote | Post #1167214 (19)

PNWGal Oct 28, 2015 12:21 AM CST Name: Linda Portland OR, zone 8b

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