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Friday, July 27, 2012
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Growing and Propagating Dahlias
Dahlias are plants that can grow with heights ranging from one to five feet. If you wish to plant this type of flower, make sure to expose them constantly to the sun. Dahlias are lovers of the sunlight and they need adequate air circulation around them. The soil should also be fertile, soggy but well-drained, and rich in organic matter. Tubers should also be implanted to make sure that the eye is two or three inches underneath the ground level. Remember that you should not plant container-grown dahlias beyond the level to which they were growing in their container. Provide space for taller ones about twelve to eighteen inches away from each other in order to trim down the space to less than eight inches for smaller plants. A taller array of dahlia can be planted as a hedge with shorter flowers budding in front of them.
Dahlia Diseases: Viruses Unpleasant Surprises
It is useful, say plant pathologists at Washington State University, the identity of the virus that a dahlia know because they differ in terms of the vectors responsible for the distribution, type of damage the virus causes and sources of inoculum and control .
Dahlia Categories Demystified (Sort Of)
Dahlias, even if we limit our exploration to the cultivated varieties of the genus, incorporate about as many shapes and textures, sizes and colors as any flower you might think of. It's especially confusing in a plant with so many cultivars. Today, domestic dahlias are known simply by the genus, Dahlia (named for Anders Dahl, an 18th-century Swedish botanist who studied the plant in its native habitat). Because the name Dahl means valley, dahlias were also known for a time as "valley flowers."
Dahlia bulbs, or tubers as they are correctly known, were introduced to Europe from their native soils in Mexico and Central America, and became widespread in the early 19th Century. Dahlias enjoyed a surge in popularity between 1820 and 1840, and the number of varieties increased in those years from 100 to 2,000.
Dahlias For the Home Landscape
Dahlias, with their summer explosion of colors, range of flower types and varied heights are a blessing to your landscape. Blooming in autumn, these various plants give you the choice of a low border plants to stately background plants that can reach 6 feet. With blossoms 2 to 12 inches, and in all colors, but blues, these flowers are garden favorites.
Dahlias can be started from seed, but most are grown from tubers. Because dahlias are hybrids, they do not come true when grown from seed. The tender tubers must be dug up each fall in USDA zones below 7, and stored, divided and replanted every spring. But the work is worth the beautiful color your garden will have.
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Show Off Your Lovely Dahlias
Even new dahlia growers might consider entering their best blooms in the league. There are different types of events the opportunity to showcase best of your dahlia garden has to offer.
County fairs almost always with a horticultural department, and in late summer, there are many dahlias at the exhibition. The categories in these cases often quite general, "dahlia" can be as specific as it gets.
Discover the True Meaning of Flower Power With Dahlia Flowers
Dahlia flowers have been grown by keen flower gardeners across the globe for centuries. Initially they were grown mainly by the Aztecs in their native areas of Mexico and Guatemala, but since being discovered by European plant hunters in the late 1700's they have risen steadily in popularity.
There's many reasons for that - the main one being that you'll have to look long and hard to find plants that will pack a punch of colour, structure and delight that Dahlia Flowers will - and then they're easy to grow, even for the novice gardener.
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