The lavender one is Lavender Perfection, but the dark purple, I am not sure. It came from a Home Depot grab bag, I have 3 plants and I love it. I think it MAY be Thomas Edison but I'm not sure... it is very prolific, tall, long stems, all around great.
Camera is a Nikon D3000 with a 35mm prime portrait 1.8 lens. It is pretty good with most colors, but reds/fuchsia do not come out true.
I have not had access to my pictures for month or two as my kid was fixing the computer. Then he forgot to hook up the picture storage hard drive. Her is an artsy picture of Hollyhill Hello Dolly that I took last September.
We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden.
I have seen some really nice Hilltop Stella blooms in the shows but it did very poorly in our garden. Many of the red bicolor dahlias are not easy growers.
Here is a picture of a B sized seedling that makes lots of tubers and is easy to grow. We are naming it Peppermint.
We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden.