Dahlia 'After Dusk'
- Gift Bag
- Good for Cutting
- Easy to Grow
I swore I had enough treasured dark dahlias and could not find room for another, but then I saw this in a dahlia trial field last autumn and fell upon it – a waterlily in the richest crimson
All dahlia flowers are edible, scatter their petals on salads for flavour, texture and colour.
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- Gift Bag
- Good for Cutting
- Easy to Grow
Product details
- Type
- Tender Perennial Tuber
- Position
- Border (Middle), Container Garden
- Soil
- Acid, Chalky, Fertile, Neutral
- Flowers
- July - November
- Height
- 1.2m (4ft)
- Group/Species
- Waterlily Group
- Common name
- Dahlia
- Moisture
- Moist but Well-drained
- Aspect
- Full Sun
- Spread
- Plant just under the soil surface, 75cm (30in) apart.
- Cultivation
- Pot up undercover in spring, place somewhere light and frost-free and keep moist. Pinch out growing tips at 20cm and plant out after last frosts. Alternatively plant straight into the ground when the frosts are nearly over.
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 Time
July - November
