Devonshire's East Devon magazine September October 2018

GARDENING
Avon Mill
Café • Garden Centre • B&B
Art • Crafts • Boutique • Gifts
Conservatories & Garden Buildings
Endsleigh Garden and Leisure, Ivybridge 01752 690626
Lovely Café serving Fabulous Breakfasts,
Lunches & ‘ Devon Cream Teas ’
Parking • Woodland walks • Dogs welcome
Loddiswell • Kingsbridge • Devon • TQ7 4DD
www.avonmill.com 01548 550338
Whether you want a greenhouse
or just a pane of glass, a fabulous
summerhouse, an honest garden
shed, or an elegant conservatory to
grace your home our friendly and
professional team are happy to help.
See our website for more information:
www.cadleighgardenbuildings.co.uk
Greenfingers
GARDEN CENTRE
Dahlia delights
Late season cheer, not to be missed
In terms of floral garden displays,
in my humble opinion there isn't
much that can touch a bed of
dahlias, the colours, forms, they
can provide a visual riot that many
consider to be a quintessential
ingredient to any self-respecting
English garden in late season!
The irony of course is that dahlias
are plants native to Mexico and
the person to introduce them to
Europe was a Swede, botanist
Andreas Dahl (1751-89).
Dahlias come in all shapes and
sizes, no doubt due to the fact that
they are octoploids, meaning they
contain eight sets of homologous
chromosomes (most plants only
have two). Additionally, they
contain many transposons - a
genetic sequence that can change
position within the genome.
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