Tag: dahlia
The Olympic dahlia, the official flower of the Games, brightens up Paris and the podiums
For the 2024 Olympic Games, the gardeners of the Parc Floral de Paris have succeeded in hybridizing in vitro a dahlia in the colours of the Olympic flame. This feat…
Dahlia hysteria led to death threats: “Cracking people”
Dahlia tubers are highly sought after by gardeners. Linnea Boqvist runs a gardening company, and has received death threats. – A buyer wrote that I should go and hang myself,…
The dahlia, a fashionable flower
Michel Caron presents lovers of beautiful gardens the dahlia, a very particular plant that the Aztecs called chichipatli Where acocopatli and of which they consumed daily tubers. During the time…