Let’s face it: dahlia tubers or plants aren’t exactly cheap to buy, especially when purchasing in bulk. This growing season, for instance, I spent close to $120 for eight new dahlia plants. While ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Propagating dahlias can be done through division, cuttings, or seeds. Division involves using tubers, clones of mother plants, to ...

This column contains a string of motives. First, it’s about a very popular group of garden plants: Dahlias. Many gardeners find dahlias very appealing, along with roses, irises, succulents and ...

The vast majority of people grow dahlias from tubers bought as bare roots or in pots at garden centres or online. There’s no shortage of variety when it comes to colours, size and flower shape with ...

FLORET FARM’S LATEST book, “Discovering Dahlias,” by Erin Benzakein, with Jill Jorgensen and Julie Chai, is a field guide to discovering summer’s most charismatic bloom. Dahlias have a love language ...

In the Western Washington climate, you can gamble with dahlias and leave them in the ground over the winter. Cut the stems off at ground level then cover the soil (with the tubers still buried ...