When you want show-stopping plants with big flowers, nothing beats dinner plate dahlias. These tall, colorful, long-blooming plants feature flower heads that can grow to more than 12 inches wide.

Although originally a native of Mexico, dahlias have become a British classic. A few years ago though, they fell out of favour with gardeners who thought of them as an old fashioned, gaudy and time ...

Deadhead spent blooms weekly by cutting stems back to the main branch to encourage bigger, better flowers. Water deeply once or twice a week and feed with a low-nitrogen, high-phosphorus fertilizer to ...

At a time of the year when many garden flowers show the ravages of having endured a long oppressive summer, dahlias are most ...

Dahlias are among the most varied flowers you can grow in the garden. Hundreds of cultivars include different shapes, petal types, and sizes that range from petite and simple to dinner-plate-sized ...

Dahlias flower until the first frost in autumn, meaning lots of lovely flowers for a long time to come. I grow dahlias every year, and few other plants can compete with the amount of flowers produced.

Dahlias love full sun, at least 6 hours a day. Pick a spot with good air circulation and well-drained soil Use a low-nitrogen fertiliser every 3–4 weeks once plants are growing. Too much nitrogen is ...

Dahlias offer spectacular color for the late-summer garden. They're fairly easy to grow if you give them what they like -- sun, well-drained soil and a low-nitrogen fertilizer -- and keep the slugs ...

Dahlias flower reliably year after year as long as the tubers are protected from frozen, wet soils.SALLY TAGG / Stuff How to look after dahlias over winter depends on where you live, how old the ...

A: Dahlias are native to Central America and are not hardy in cold winters. Where winter temperatures drop below 20 F, gardeners have to dig up the tuberous roots of common dahlias and store them ...

DAHLIA aficionado Pat Cunningham likes to say he has either 40 years of experience or one year of experience 40 times over. Either way, he has grown hundreds of varieties of the flower in his ...