Dahlia 'Porcelain'

Easy for Beginners
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Good for Cutting
Loved by Pollinators
Needs support
Tender Perennial

With pure white petals tipped with pale pink-mauve, this is a soft, dreamy and romantic dahlia. More

2 tubers 229401-2

£8.95

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With pure white petals tipped with pale pink-mauve, this is a soft, dreamy and romantic dahlia, beautiful picked on it’s own for a vase or arranged with other whites and pinks.

Our dahlias:

are first class, healthy tubers – the largest and best you can buy.
come with full planting, spacing and cultivating instructions for beginner gardeners
tubers should be potted up when they arrive and be kept in a light, frost-free place until the frosts are over and then be planted into the garden.

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Genus	Dahlia
Variety	Porcelain
Type	Tender Perennial Tuber
Common Name	Dahlia
Border Position	Middle
Bulb Size	I
Soil Type	Acid, Chalky, Clay, Fertile, Neutral
Scent	Unscented
Site	Full Sun
Moisture	Moist but Well-drained
Height	1.2m (4ft)
Spacing	Plant just under the soil surface, 75cm (30in) apart.
Sowing, Seeds, Planting	Pot them up undercover March or early April in a generous pot (at least 2 litre) filled with multi-purpose potting compost. Place them in a light, frost-free place and keep the compost moist. Pinch out their growing tips when they have reached about 8" tall. They will have formed bushy plants by the time the frosts have ended and will be in flower by the beginning of July. If you don’t have anywhere to grow the potted tubers, you can put them straight into the ground when the frosts are nearly over, mulching them or protecting with a cloche or protective horticultural fleece if the foliage appears before the frosts are over, but this will delay flowering.
Care Tips	Support with a stout stick, tie in every couple of weeks. In the south you can mulch deeply and overwinter them in the ground, alternatively, lift and overwinter your dahlias frost free undercover.
Flowering	July - November
Vase Life	Change the water regularly and add a dash of cider vinegar or bleach as you do.
Harvesting	Flower production - 4 to 5 months
Cooking Notes	All dahlia flowers are edible. I use the petals scattered over salad and to decorate a range of puddings.