Don at the Leesburg (VA) Farmer's Market
A grower of vegetables, fruits, and other plants for most of his life, Don Dramstad first undertook the labor of love that is dahlia growing in the 1990s. Despite the inherent difficulties of dahlia cultivation in the hot summers of the Washington, D.C., area, each year more and more of his acreage outside Leesburg, Virginia, is occupied with the striking blooms. Don has served as president and on the board of the National Capital Dahlia Society for many years, and each season helps to monitor the progress of newly introduced plants at the dahlia trial garden in suburban Maryland.
