Date Night Dahlia - 'Wine & Roses'

'Wine & Roses' is very pretty in the garden and makes me think of Victorian fabrics. She buds up and starts to open quite dark purple but very quickly shows her white, becoming a 5" white waterlily flower with rosey purple tips on a 4.5' plant. I am not entirely happy with the photographs so far but I may not get more blooms from her and I was happy to have been able to see her at all this year. With frost warnings, I won't get that pleasure in regard to most of the rest of the dahlia until next season.