One flower, infinite beauty

DAHLIA aficionado Pat Cunningham likes to say he has either 40 years of experience or one year of experience 40 times over. Either way, he has grown hundreds of varieties of the flower in his Manhattan Beach garden and developed his own hybrids, including the 12-inch-wide, white-and-deep-pink 'Shiloh Noelle' praised by Martha Stewart.

By Lili Singer

August 11, 2005