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    Amazing dahlias

    Feb 15, 2022 4 minutes

    WHAT I love most about dahlias is the changing hues of their flowers. Petals unfurl with clear, glowing colours but change with maturity and exposure to sunshine. The blooms of ‘Lakeland Autumn’ are bright-pink on opening but mature to pale straw. Others, such as ‘Blue Wish’, begin with clear markings and end suffused with colour. With the contrasting discs of single flowers, the darker centres of doubles, glowing background shades and strong green, bronze or near-black foliage, dahlias create fabulous colour contrasts all on their own.

    Brilliant late show

    Anyone who grows dahlias will know they start flowering in July but are at their best during late summer and autumn, delivering masses of bloom right up until the first frosts. Originally from the uplands

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