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    Delightful Dahlias

    Oct 01, 2020 5 minutes
    By Jude Van Heel, Huon Valley, Tas.

    Aren’t we so lucky that dahlias have made a comeback, they seem to be the new garden trend, especially popular with the slow flower movement and flower farmers. When we first shifted to Fairy Wren Cottage 10 years ago I asked a local plants woman if she was hiding the dahlias at her garden nursery because I couldn’t find any, her reply was that she didn’t stock them because they weren’t popular! Gosh a lot has changed in those 10 years.

    Now there is a great range of dahlias in mail order and online catalogues, at garden nurseries and at the end of the growing season (late May and June) flower farmers dig up their dahlia tubers, divide them and sell their excess stock via their online shops or at their farm gate stalls. Keep

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