Dahlias are among the most varied flowers you can grow in the garden. Hundreds of cultivars include different shapes, petal types, and sizes that range from petite and simple to dinner-plate-sized ...

February may still be cold, wet and stormy, but the garden never truly slows down. Now is the time to focus on getting warm-season plants ready, giving them the preparation they need to establish ...

Looking to light up late summer and fall with show-stopping color? Dahlias deliver. With forms ranging from precise pompons to giant dinner plates and shades from soft pastels to moody merlot, there’s ...

Several years ago, my friend Sharon Richardson introduced me to dahlias. She grows dozens of different varieties each year, knows them by name, and keeps them going season to season by overwintering ...

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 ...

The dahlia is an ornamental that blooms all summer and is an excellent performer in the cutting garden. The scientific name of the garden dahlia is Dahlia hortensis but it is correct to use its common ...

Retired school superintendent and educator Judy Stallworth believes that teachers never stop learning. So in May 2012, she was delighted to receive a box of dahlia tubers from a neighbor. “I’d never ...