We had a cold night earlier this week, and a sharp frost took all my dahlias. Although disappointing it was inevitable for this time of year. Without further ado I chopped back the evil looking, black foliage and mulched over the crowns. Three are to be relocated and those were dug up and placed under a fleece blanket in the garage in order that they can dry out and be saved for next year.
Yesterday I visited the very attractive Petersham Nursery. London weather is milder than in my garden and so Petersham Nursery was untouched and their dahlias were still looking beautiful. Here are a few pretty snaps from the day. 
One for the cat lovers:
And for the foodies, how about this for presentation:
Bangers and mash don’t quite cut this in this looks department, do they.
Have a good day.
Sounds like you had a good day!
It was indeed.
Gosh – I wonder what your temperature went down to, as at approx 2 degrees my dahlias weren’t touched, but I am sure it won’t be long. What a lovely day out you had to make up for the demise of your dahlias though, and so nice to still have gardens to visit at this time of year – we will be in Oxford this year for my Dec birthday and I am of course planning a visit to the botanical gardens
Those botanical gardens in Oxford are a great place to visit. A perfect birthday treat I should think.
Don’t know about the temp. Cold!
The Sunday Times weather comments for the week mentioned minus 4 in Oxfordshire…
Brrrr
Dorris, do you realise your posts are duplicating? Twice for this post but 3 times for Sunday’s… definitely something odd happening as I can’t seem to comment on (any of!) Sunday’s posts either…
I look forward to seeing a green and floriferous barrow next spring!
Gremlins
No I didn’t realise. My internet is all but useless. Super fast highway it ain’t
Internet rather than blogging issue then, do you think? What a pain. As soon as fibre was available here we snapped it up ( but at a cost of course) as it was the only was we could get a decent service 😐
Fibre, ha no chance here. Considering joining Village networks but yet to be convinced it will definitely work. Even 4g is slow here
I was very surprised we got it here, to be honest, but am not complaining – apart from having to pay extra to get a reliable connextion and reasonable speed 😉 I have read good reports of local groups getting together and paying for their own supplier
Yes I need to start asking my neighbours to see how they are getting on.