>Our local Dahlia club has published its own color charts to help classify >the flowers. A member showed me these charts, and curiously there were >pages devoted to the color I used to call purple. When I pointed to those >colors, the dahlia person assured me that there were no dahlias in that >color range. > >They do use the term purple, and when I asked the dahlia person to show me >a dahlia in that category, a dusky red one was pointed out. Oh, well... > >Another member mentioned Dahlia 'Purple Joy' and said it was a very >distinctive lavender which really stood out in a planting of dahlias. I went outside and looked at Thomas Edison and it IS wine colored or magenta (I have NO color charts) more than it is 'purple'. sigh... language. -- susan, who is..... owned by Jasper & Schubert the Standard Poodles, Gracie the Rhodesian, Pup-Quiz the Basenji and their Basenji brother, Jones.... on the North Coast of CA, USA susanann@sbcglobal.net, copyright 2004