The dahlia garden at Golden Gate Park is one of my favorite annual San Francisco events. (My least favorite is Fleet Week, which just ended two hours ago. This annual display of miliary might literally flies right over my apartment, with all its earsplitting, booming, shrieking scariness.)
The best time to see the dahlias was probably a month or three weeks ago; the flowers are on the downturn now, but still outrageously beautiful! The dahlias are so amazing in their mathematical, patterned perfection. Although the word "dahlia" comes from "Dahl"-- the name of a Swedish person, they actually originated in Mexico and Central America. Aztecdahlias.com says they originally had an Aztec name-- "acocotli" or "water-cane", and they are the national flower of Mexico. Go see them, before it's too late!
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