Swedish Dahlias

Last  October, Will and I went to Denmark and Sweden (for a half day).  We went to the Lund Botanical Gardens and had a lovely stroll around the place, a quick picnic lunch, and a seed "borrowing" session.  Click here to see the video of our day out in Sweden and the gardens.

When we returned home and at the right moment for seed sowing, Will tossed a few of the dahlia seeds into a patch of dirt around the front corner of the house.  We were pleasantly surprised when several sprouts pushed through the ground, though I thought that they might have been weeds.  The sprouts grew tall and started to bud.  Will, away for a week, had me tell him daily updates as we had started to suspect what type of plant is was.  When it finally burst open and it was a gorgeous  red flower, we knew that the had been successful in growing Swedish Dahlias!  It is very exciting and we hope that it will continue to propagate here in its new country.