Dahila

If ever there was a flower that knew the intelligence of variety, it is the Dahlia. While its colors are incomplete to the warm ranges of red, orange, yellow, pink and white, its flowers come in a dizzying array of shapes and sizes. Dahlias are grouped into six size categories:

• Giant - more than 10 inches in diameter
• Large - 8-10 inches in diameter
• Medium - 6-8 inches in diameter
• Small - 4-6 inches in diameter
• Miniature - 2-4 inches in diameter
• Mignon - Less than 2 inches in diameter

On top of that, they are grouped into 11 bloom categories. These include:

• Decorative
• Cactus
• Fimbriated
• Ball
• Waterlily
• Anemone
• Collarette
• Orchid
• Peony
• Single
• Novelty

Each variation of the dahlia petal is loveliness. Their petals can be prickly, wispy, round thin or a semi dozen other variations. Even the color ranges from one solid color to a painted mixture of two or three colors.

Dahlias like well, drain, humus wealthy soil. They also like full light. While dahlias are not cold hardy, they do advantage from being grown in a cooler climate with abundance of rain fall.
Dahlias bloom from mid summer all the method up to frost. Many times their displayed will become more stunning as the weather cools. Dahlias create a better display if they are correctly deadheaded and haggard.

Calla

Calla (kal'a), or calla lily, is a beautiful garden flower of the arum family, or Ara-ceae. It is related to the jack-in-the-pulpit and the skunk cabbage. What looks like the flower of the calla is actually a leaflike sheath called a spathe. The true flowers are extremely small and are inside the spathe. In the common calla the spathe is pure white. There are also yellow and pink varieties.

The calla grows from a bulb. This bulb has to be planted in rich well-watered soil. Often it is located in loam or soil mixed with manure. In most parts of North America it is grown indoors or in a greenhouse. In California and southern Texas it can be grown outdoors and is planted in parks in great flower beds.

The most ordinary tropical calla comes from the banks of the Nile River in Egypt it is called calla lily, Ethiopian lily, or common calla. The plant has a 10-inch (25-centimeter) white leaf. The calla lily causes a burning annoyance to the mouth and stomach if eaten.