Shells on the Beach Dahlia Collection
- Exclusive
- Good for Cutting
- Loved by Pollinators
Seasoned customers will know I love to divide flowers into four different colour palettes, the most fashionable right now being Soft and Warm, pastel colours in the café-au-lait, apricot, peach range — like cashmere jersey colours or shells on a sandy beach
- Dahlia 'Cafe au Lait'
- Dahlia 'Manoa'
- Dahlia 'Waltzing Mathilda'
- Dahlia 'Rhubarb & Custard'
- Dahlia 'HS Princess'
All dahlia flowers are edible, scatter their petals on salads for flavour, texture and colour.
- Exclusive
- Good for Cutting
- Loved by Pollinators
Product details
- Type
- Tender Perennial
- Position
- Cutting Garden
- Soil
- Broad Tolerance
- Flowers
- July - November
- Height
- 75cm (30in)
- Moisture
- Moist but Well-drained
- Aspect
- Full Sun
- 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