In A Vase On Monday – Glow With Pink and Creme
Each Monday Cathy at Rambling In The Garden invites us to share a vase of cuttings from our gardens.
In A Vase On Monday – Glow With Pink and Creme
In A Vase On Monday – Glow With Pink and Creme
Prepared a few days ago two jars of Dahlia ‘Cafe Au Lait’ brighten our home on a rainy Sunday afternoon as remnants of Hurricane Delta pass through North Carolina.
In A Vase On Monday – Glow With Pink and Creme
The dark blue jar is 6.75 inches tall, the botanic one is just under 6 inches.
In A Vase On Monday – Glow With Pink and Creme
In A Vase On Monday – Glow With Pink and Creme
The dahlias range from 4 to 6.5 inches in diameter, some with hints of yellow.
In A Vase On Monday – Glow With Pink and Creme
In A Vase On Monday – Glow With Pink and Creme
In A Vase On Monday – Glow With Pink and Creme
Materials
Flowers
Dahlia ‘Cafe Au Lait’
Foliage
None
Materials
Dark blue matte ceramic jar
Portmerion- Botanic vase made in England
Thanks to Cathy at Rambling In The Garden for hosting and giving us an opportunity to share flower-filled vases across the world. Visit her to discover what surprises she and others found to place in a vase this week.
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Lovely flowers – soft color but striking. Gorgeous vases too. 🙂
Thanks Judy. The dahlias have been so rewarding the past few weeks.
I’d talk to you about my dahlias this year, but I’d need plenty of wine to choke out the words. Hence, I have really enjoyed yours. 🙂
Wow, what a lovely color in this dahlia. Soft and beautiful! Thanks for sharing. Have a great week ~ FlowerLady
Thanks! This dahlia is finally coming in to its own. Late in the season but happy it is doing so well.
Love those dahlias. I think every gardener has some Portmerion.
Thanks. My sister bought the Portmerion vase for me and I’ve always enjoyed it.
Café au lait so gorgeous, she doesn’t need any supporting cast to shine! I’m amazed at the different shades that are so different to my own Café au lait. Goes to show how much climate and probably soil influence the appearence. Hope your husband is feeling better. Have a good week, Susie.
I am intrigued by the variations among Café au lait flowers. Thanks for the kind wishes for my husband. He is slowly improving.
Now THAT’S what Cafe au Lait is supposed to look like! Beautiful, perfect for the centre of the dining room table.
They are better examples, I think. Really have been enjoying them.
Creamy goodness – love it! ❤
Thanks, I’m excited these dahlias finally seem to be taking off.
The petals are so sculptural and catch the light beautifully.
Don’t know why the petals have those curly accents but they are interesting. They make me stop to admire them every time I walk past.
Stunning. It always makes me happy to see these giant dahlias.
Thank you. Happy you enjoyed the dahlias. They’re putting on a good show this week.
Beautiful as always, Susie!!
Hey, thanks Daphne.
Beautiful! I’ve already ordered ‘Cafe au Lait’ to try next year. I hope Delta caused no damage in your area.
Tons of rain from Delta and still very cloudy and gray but no damage here. Hope your Cafe au Lait does well next year.
Absolutely perfect! I admire your eye for elegance Susie. The vases are an ideal choice for those Dahlias. 😃
Thanks so much Cathy! I didn’t have time to do much arranging this week so the flowers themselves had to be the entire show.
Portmerion Pottery is so distinctive, Susie, as I recognised it even before the photo that provided a peek of the rim, which confirmed it. Your ‘Cafe Au Lait’ have been really bountiful – are these all from the same plant? I still find it intriguing that they are just not the same colour as the same variety in the UK – still just as pretty though, and no doubt just as tall!
My sister gave me the Portmerion some years ago and I hadn’t used it recently. I still wonder about the ‘Cafe Au Lait’ authenticity, but I have seen images with a lot of variety. There are 2 (or 3) plants. They’re much happier in the cooler weather of autumn.
‘Cafe au Lait’ is really special, isn’t it? I’m going to have to invest in some of those tubers. I’m relatively new to Dahlias, but I want to grow more. Beautiful arrangement!
Oh me too. I’d like to try more varieties. It’s one of the first dahlias that caught my eye several years ago. These are finally getting close to what I’d imagined.
Cafe au Lait is such a delicately coloured Dahlia and your arrangement is so gentle.
Thanks Malc.
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Did you feature Cafe au Lait already? Yours looks more like what I expect it to look like, and is only slightly more pinkish. Some of them are significantly more pink. The cultivar seems to be quite variable. Some have suggested that there may be more than one cultivar floating about, or that some of what is available was grown from a clone that partly reverted.
Yes, this batch of Cafe au Lait are less pink. There is also a Rose version apparently. The reverted clone theory makes sense. I don’t think I have the original one but it was sold as Cafe au Lait..
Actually, yours looks more like the original than the others, at least in pictures.
Simply divine. A great display of a specimen Dahlia.
Thanks so much!
Has painting potential! Just finished my first in years and entered it in tropical flowers painting contest…
Oh, I’m so excited for you. Good for you for getting back into painting. Life here is not conducive to starting anything new right now, but I did apply Waterlogue filters to some of the photos and you’re right, they would make nice subjects.
All those shades of cream would be a challenge.