Orange Succor. Dahlia 'Bishop of Oxford', and Honeybees, Apis mellifera, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The third Tuesday of September annually is the day on which the King (of the House of Orange) of The Netherlands reads the government's Speech from the Throne. It's a kind of state of the union discourse which puts forward the government's plans for the coming budgetary year. There's lots of pageantry which goes back on March 8, 1748, the birthday of Wiliam V of Orange (1748-1806), last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic before the monarchy was established in 1806. Of course, orange is the dominant color.
This flower is a 'Bishop of Oxford' Dahlia; bishop dahlias descend from a line developed by Fred. G. Treseder (Cardiff) in the mid-1920s.
Orange Succor. Dahlia 'Bishop of Oxford', and Honeybees, Apis mellifera, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The third Tuesday of September annually is the day on which the King (of the House of Orange) of The Netherlands reads the government's Speech from the Throne. It's a kind of state of the union discourse which puts forward the government's plans for the coming budgetary year. There's lots of pageantry which goes back on March 8, 1748, the birthday of Wiliam V of Orange (1748-1806), last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic before the monarchy was established in 1806. Of course, orange is the dominant color.
This flower is a 'Bishop of Oxford' Dahlia; bishop dahlias descend from a line developed by Fred. G. Treseder (Cardiff) in the mid-1920s.