Ultimate Dahlia Collection

Cut-and-come-again
Easy for Beginners
Will grow in Full Sun
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Good for Cutting
Loved by Pollinators
Needs support
Perfect for Pots
Tender Perennial

Our ultimate dahlia collection with all our top-ranking favourites, old and new. More

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The ultimate dahlia collection with all our top-ranking favourites, old and new. Fill an entire bed with these, or scatter them through your garden, like jewels.

This collection includes 1 or 2 tubers each of:

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
Group/Species	Anemone Group, Centre compromises of dense elongated tubes rather than a disc. The outer parts have one or more rings of flattened petals. Click here for more information about dahlia groups. Ball Group, Larger than pompoms and have a spiral arrangement of incurved petals forming a ball-shaped flower. Click here for more information about dahlia groups. Decorative Group, Broad and flat petals, normally bluntly pointed, with no central disc showing. Click here for more information about dahlia groups. Miscellaneous Group Orchid-flowered and Peony-flowered types are classified as Miscellaneous. Also includes Double Orchid-flowered, Bishop, Mini Bishop and Star dahlias. Click here for more information about dahlia groups.
Variety	Bishop of Auckland, Burlesca, Darkarin, Soulman, Zundert Mystery Fox
Type	Tender Perennial Tuber
Common Name	Dahlia
Border Position	Container, Middle
Bulb Size	I
Soil Type	Acid, Alkaline, Chalky, Clay, Fertile, Neutral, Sandy
Scent	Unscented
Site	Full Sun
Moisture	Moist but Well-drained
Height	1.1m (3ft 7in)
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	Only pick dahlias in full flower. Recut the hollow stem ends under water to avoid airlocks.
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.