"Sacha" wrote in message
"David wrote in message
Normally Bishop will be dark from the start
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Strange. We have a number of Dahlias and have had for years but this
year
is
the first time we have the Bishop ( thought I had better join the club)
and
much to my surprise the leaves aren't especially dark. Indeed no darker
than
some others we have that are green leaved.
Perhaps it's because it's still in the greenhouse and it will darken
when
planted outside.


Our experience of The Bishop is that it comes up bronze and stays bronze.
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Oh! So maybe we haven't got the Bishop after all. Wonderfull!
--
Bob

www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an Allotment site in
Runnymede fighting for it's existence.