{"id":1963,"date":"2016-10-16T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-13T17:27:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T21:27:18","slug":"recreating-seattles-amazing-dahlia-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2016\/10\/recreating-seattles-amazing-dahlia-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Recreating Seattle’s Amazing Dahlia Wall To Close Out The Growing Season"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We recreated the famous dahlia wall originally created at the Seattle Wholesale Flower Market – although we never intended it to look exactly like the original – it did.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
The completed dahlia wall installed in the lobby at Tower Hill Botanic Garden. It was stunning, and the hardest part was labeling each blossom.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\nI mean, how do you explain all of this after the fact? All I can say is, as an artist and designer myself, it was never our intention to end up looking exactly as if we copied it, but I think given that we all used the same reference shots, we never took the time to create something different. So, I call it ‘a homage’ to a splendid creation that they did on the west coast, and I hope that since we are all designers in one way or another, that we understand how ideas move when shared.<\/p>\n
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The wall was undeniably beautiful, especially with all of the different types of dahlias that members brought to the collaboration. Although we had few dahlias in our gardens available to exhibit in the New England shows this year, this wall allowed many of us to exhibit a wide variety all in one place.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
This effort was the result of a great idea invented in Seattle (by Flirtyfleurs Alicia Schwede and gatherdesignco Amy Kunzel-Patterson – the original creators and designers of this concept). A bunch of folks who raise dahlias in their back yard, their family members who helped make the wall who obviously copied the exact wall, and the the color of the wall ( it took three tries to get the right color, starting with grey stain, a blue stain and then at the last minute, a dark grey paint – exactly as the Seattle wall. It just got worse once we added the calligraphy for the variety names. Too late to turn back. All we could do would be to credit the original creators, and prey for forgiveness. After all – it was too beautiful to destroy at this point.<\/p>\n
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Since this wall was installed in a very public space, a gallery-like quiet nook at a world class botanic garden on one of the busiest weekends of the year during peak foliage time in New England, it became a crowd favorite. I am not sure the the original at the Seattle Wholesale Market was open to the public but it has been well documented on-line over the past three years, and I imagine that any flower farmer is familiar with it. The public couldn’t help but share this wall in selfies and social media posts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Dahlias are so diverse and their colors almost represent every color in the color wheel, that it was amazing to see the different shapes and forms all within each color group.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Our apologies to the Flirtyfleurs girls, to Amy and Debra Prinzing, But we also thank you for being so nice about sharing your creation with the world. It is a striking way to display this incredible flower. The dahlia growers of the world thank you! And I know that this one week has inspired many new dahlia fans in the North East, who were so impressed with the variety and beauty that dahlias can bring to their gardens.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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This morning, our dahlias looked like this. A full, deep freeze has officially ended the dahlia season here in New England.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
We recreated the famous dahlia wall originally created at the Seattle Wholesale Flower Market – although we never intended it to look exactly like…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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