It's easy to fall in love with dahlias. Their massive flower heads are visual dynamite in a fall garden—and they look just as beautiful in a vase after you cut and arrange them. Dahlias are grown from ...

Dahlia varieties, with their bright, structural, long-lasting blooms, are show-stoppers in any garden. However, introducing other plants to the beds and borders you are growing dahlias adds visual ...

For common tall garden varietals, pinch dahlias when the plant reaches around 12 inches and has four pairs of leaves. “Stopping” dahlias involves cutting off the top of the main growing stem to ...

Staking helps protect tall or large-flowered dahlias from breakage and flopping over, especially after rain or strong wind. Installing stakes before or shortly after planting helps avoid damaging ...

Think dahlias are all old-fashioned and fiddly? Think again – there are hundreds of varieties in sizzling colours and they grow in any soil Dahlias have an image problem. Even though garden gurus such ...

WHAT a whopper! Pensioner Jean Thacker is dwarfed by her garden's prize bloom - a 7ft tall dahlia. The 70-year-old retired caterer's 5ft 4ins frame has been put in the shade by her spiralling specimen ...