Discussion of Colors, Forms or Varieties forum: Purple
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| And yet Tyrian purple is a reddish-purple, like so many of our "purple" dahlias - so maybe we are using the right word after all! Ew, snail snot! |
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| People here often refur to light purple or lavender as " violet or lilac " Some of the purple chips on the ADS color chart look full out blue to me , the longer I'm on this cubits the more I discover how little I know about color . |
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| The house paint companies have named all their own colors and at every company they are different. Each company has hundreds of them and introduce new ones each year. Very few are descriptive enough to tell you the color without looking at the color chip. On computer websites for text and backgrounds and I believe even pictures, there are 256 named colors. Those names are not very popular with people either. As someone previously mentioned, the 64 Crayola Crayon colors each have a name and those names may be more popular than most. Outrageous Orange used to be one of the names and we named a seedling that name. It was a loser and we never kept it past the second year. Here is link to the crayola names: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Crayola_crayon_colors We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden. |
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| Interesting , I like " Laser Lemon " |
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| I just noticed that the crayola Cotton Candy is more or less the color of Hollyhill Cotton Candy. We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden. |
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Wow, I can date my childhood from the color names I recognize!  |
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| I am showing my age.... I didn't even know there was a crayon called Cotton Candy  I grew up with the 12 pack. ...felt so rich when I was buying my kids the 64 pack! It's a good life!  |
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| I moved the discussion of Rivers Purple Pinwheel and other Novelty forms to: http://cubits.org/dahlias/thread/view/80663/ Here's the post that started that discussion... PNWGal wrote:Thought I would toss in pix of a couple of the new purples that I posted on the wish list thread: CC |
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| ON THE CRAYON COLORS I see my knowledge of crayons stopped sometime in the late 1970's. I had no idea! I think I need to go out and buy the biggest box of them I can find and start coloring just to stay current! Salish Dahlias |
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| Yeah we need a color by number dahlia book :-) I noticed Connie using a " purplish " color yarn last night and found the color was called " Orchid " . I searched the color and no wonder there is confusion amongst colors they describe it as having 3 or more tones , to me "grayish purple" and reddish purple should not share the same name . Wikipedia Orchid is a bright rich purple color that is a representation of the color of the orchidaceae flower. Various tones of orchid may range from grayish purple to purplish-pink to strong reddish purple. The first recorded use of orchid as a color name in English was in 1915.[2]  |
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| OH my goodness, a paint by number dahlia painting kit OR, a Dahlia coloring book with many pages of the basic shapes so you can design your own variety! I can't think of a more fun way to use some boring winter hours! Salish Dahlias |
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| Look at all the colors out there that are named after flowers! So how come nobody has come up with a color called "dahlia"?  |
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Which dahlia would you prefer was named "Dahlia Colored", Linda?  Salish Dahlias |
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The " Dahlia" color would be blue of coarse  |
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Benny...  Salish Dahlias |
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| Wayne Holland named his originations "Hy". He released them through Ferncliff Dahlias. Wayne stopped breeding dahlias about 5 years ago and moved further East in Canada where dahlias do not grow well. I believe he is into grapes now. He was a professional plant breeder. He worked with Wayne Shantz to develop some purple dahlias and Shantz came up with Esmerelda and then quit breeding. Esmerelda unfortunately is not a real blue purple but is definitely purple. Blue purple is very hard to get even when a professional breeder is working on it. And remember that Gordon Leroux of Kenora Dahlias worked for the last five or so years of his life to get a large purple dahlia to name after his wife. He had Parkinsons and grew 2600 seedlings the last year and never was able to get that large purple dahlia that would have been named Kenora Jeannie. So I hope that people appreciate the purple dahlias that we do have and realize how hard they were to breed. We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden. |
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Islander wrote:ON THE CRAYON COLORS I think that is a wonderful plan! SHOW ME YOUR CRITTERS! http://cubits.org/crittergarden/thread/view/73275/ |
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| OK, I'm not in a position to quote this ver batum but I learned from Radiolab (NPR show) that "red" and "blue" were not in the ancient literature. Blood was referred to as black, the sea was black (I think), and the sky was NOT referred to as blue - the sky was not assigned a color because it was not a "thing" it was empty space. In light of all this and our conversation on the color purple, I am beginning to relate color to women's clothing sizes - let's revamp the naming system to have some base in reality! I like the Pantone (art) system, myself, but am not even familiar with the science based system. For the sake of clarity though, SOME standardization is needed! Here: "What is the color of honey, and "faces pale with fear"? If you're Homer--one of the most influential poets in human history--that color is green. And the sea is "wine-dark," just like oxen...though sheep are violet. Which all sounds...well, really off. Producer Tim Howard introduces us to linguist Guy Deutscher, and the story of William Gladstone (a British Prime Minister back in the 1800s, and a huge Homer-ophile). Gladstone conducted an exhaustive study of every color reference in The Odyssey and The Iliad. And he found something startling: No blue! Tim pays a visit to the New York Public Library, where a book of German philosophy from the late 19th Century helps reveal a pattern: across all cultures, words for colors appear in stages. And blue always comes last. Jules Davidoff, professor of neuropsychology at the University of London, helps us make sense of the way different people see different colors in the same place. Then Guy Deutscher tells us how he experimented on his daughter Alma when she was just starting to learn the colors of the world around, and above, her." and the link to the podcast: http://www.radiolab.org/story/211119-colors/ SHOW ME YOUR CRITTERS! http://cubits.org/crittergarden/thread/view/73275/ |
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| And btw - I am a beginner with dahlias and anything else I can't leave in the ground all winter. I POT mine so I can put them on and off the deck as weather dictates..... Nothing has a chance to rot in the ground. SHOW ME YOUR CRITTERS! http://cubits.org/crittergarden/thread/view/73275/ |
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| How do you move those 2000 pots? Most of us dig and divide our dahlias. Even a couple of hundred pots would be tough and where would you put them anyway? The answer is to dig and divide and get more tubers from each plant. And many of the Cubits members trade these tubers. Pots are a bit too heavy to mail. We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden. |
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