The Cutting Garden

This year, the cutting garden consisted almost exclusively of dahlias.  The summer was so cool by Colorado standards that the dahlias didn't start blooming until late August.  I thought we wouldn't get much of a season for them, but then it didn't freeze until late October, so we had almost two months of flowers.  The pink bloom is Jersey's Beauty.  The red is, I believe, Mrs. Geo Boutillier, though like many blooms it seems to come out with more orange in our soil.  The final picture shows an assortment of dahlias from the garden.