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    This week… Dahlias

    Aug 02, 2022 4 minutes
    WITH GRAHAM RICE

    DAHLIAS are one of our most flamboyant summer flowers. Dahlia flowers vary in size from small single flowers shaped like daisies to dinner-plate dahlias with fully double flowers 12in (30cm) across.

    Strong growing, fleshy shoots grow from dahlia bulbs (technically tubers) shaped like a collection of very fat fingers connected at one end, where the shoots develop. Hollow stems carry bold divided foliage that is usually dark green but can be heavily bronzed. From early summer the fat buds burst into bloom and the flowers can keep coming until the first frost of autumn.

    Outstanding in a sunny border, superb – and very fashionable – for cutting, dwarf

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