Intimidated by dahlias? Try growing these instead… Chrysanthemums often perennialize, spread to fill in a space, are frost tolerant and can rival a small dinner plate dahlia in size! This is a varietal called “homecoming” pictured here, which get nice and tall and are perfect to add to your cutting garden at home. Mums don’t require digging and dividing in cold zones like dahlias often do, but are sensitive to overly wet soils, especially in spring, which can lead to rot. They like full sun and

If I was going to grow dahlias for the first time, this is what I’d want to know. 🌸 Growing dahlias is not hard to do but requires a bit more work from you as a gardener.🌸 Dahlias are tender perennials that must be lifted out of the ground in order to survive in colder climates (like mine gardening zone 6a) or treated as an annual. In most cases, home gardeners buy them as tubers, so this can get very expensive if you buy them from year to year. While you can find some plants or tubers at nurs

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