(Ball Dahlia, Dahlia, Snoho Doris Dahlia)

Nothing beats dahlias as everblooming bedding plants and cutflowers. Cultivar 'Snoho Doris' is a herbaceous, warm season, tender perennial with bulbous underground tubers. Its compound, green foliage is made of oval and pointed leaflets with toothed margins. The small ball, doubled, flowers are coral-pink, and the individual petals range from ivory-yellow at their bases to coral at their tips with hints of lavender. It is good to remove the old buds from spent flowers to encourage continued flowering....

(Dahlia, Decorative Dahlia, Spartacus Dahlia)

Nothing beats dahlias as everblooming bedding plants and cutflowers. Cultivar 'Spartacus' is a herbaceous, warm season, tender perennial with bulbous underground tubers. Its compound green foliage is made of oval and pointed leaflets with toothed margins. The large, doubled, informal decorative flowers are velvety red and long-lasting. The petals can be curled and haphazard in shape with blushes of very dark red. It is good to remove the old buds from spent flowers to encourage continued flowering....

(Dahlia, Starsister Red and White Dahlia)

The dwarf dahlias in the Starsister Series are vigorous, ever-blooming bedding plants. The tidy tender perennials are borne from tuberous roots that can easily be dug and stored indoors where winters are cold. They are bushy and have lush deep green lobed leaves. When conditions are favorable, they become covered with short leafy stems laden with semi-double daisies. These super showy flowers come in shades of lavender, pink, orange, scarlet, crimson, yellow and white. There are also a number of...

(Dahlia, Starsister Scarlet and Yellow Dahlia)

The dwarf dahlias in the Starsister Series are vigorous, ever-blooming bedding plants. The tidy tender perennials are borne from tuberous roots that can easily be dug and stored indoors where winters are cold. They are bushy and have lush deep green lobed leaves. When conditions are favorable, they become covered with short leafy stems laden with semi-double daisies. These super showy flowers come in shades of lavender, pink, orange, scarlet, crimson, yellow and white. There are also a number of...

(Dahlia, Decorative Dahlia, Sugartown Sunrise Dahlia)

Nothing beats dahlias as everblooming bedding plants and cutflowers. Cultivar 'Sugartown Sunrise' is a herbaceous, warm season, tender perennial with bulbous underground tubers. Its compound, dark green foliage is made of oval and pointed leaflets with toothed margins. The miniature, doubled, formal decorative-form flowers are a lovely blend of creamy white and lavender-pink. Typically the petal bases are cream, and then blending to lavender at their tips. Also, the central core of petals is often...

(Dahlia, Incurved Cactus Dahlia, Taratahi Lilac Dahlia)

Nothing beats dahlias as everblooming bedding plants and cutflowers. Cultivar 'Taratahi Lilac' is a herbaceous, warm season, tender perennial with bulbous underground tubers. Its compound, dark green foliage is made of oval and pointed leaflets with toothed margins. The small, doubled, incurved-cactus form flowers are a blend of lavender and ivory. The narrow petals are creamy at their base and then either gently or abruptly blush to lavender at their pointed tips. It is good to remove the old buds...

(Dahlia, Taratahi Ruby Dahlia, Waterlily Dahlia)

Nothing beats dahlias as everblooming bedding plants and cutflowers. Cultivar 'Taratahi Ruby' is a herbaceous, warm season, tender perennial with bulbous underground tubers. Its compound, dark green to bronzed foliage is made of oval and pointed leaflets with toothed margins. The medium-sized, doubled, waterlily-flowered blossoms are robust red, and close at night. Bases of the petals may expose a creamy white color when the flowerhead is aged and widely open. The long stems are usually reddish green....

(Dahlia, Unwin's Mixed Dahlias)

Unwin Series dahlias are bedding type dahlias with a vigorous, dwarf habit. The beautiful green foliage is adorned with showy bronze, salmon, apricot, orange, scarlet, crimson, yellow and lavender semi-double flowers when temperatures are warm and remain above freezing. Petals surround a small golden yellow center disc.

Often sold in seed form, 'Unwin Mix' can be started early indoors in very early spring and transplanted out later. They will flower during the latter part of the first season...

(Dahlia, Semi-cactus Dahlia, Vanessa Dahlia)

Nothing beats dahlias as everblooming bedding plants and cutflowers. Cultivar 'Vanessa' is a herbaceous, warm season, tender perennial with bulbous underground tubers. The compound, green foliage has oval and pointed leaflets with toothed margins. The medium-sized pink, doubled, informal decorative-type flowers are long-lasting and borne prolifically. It is good to remove the old buds from spent flowers to encourage continued flowering.

Dahlias prefer well-drained, fertile soil and full to...

(Dahlia, Decorative Dahlia, Mystic Wonder Dahlia)

The dahlia hybrid 'Mystic Wonder' bears glossy beet-red foliage and dark red blooms on sturdy compact plants that do not need staking. It is one of the Mystic Series dahlias developed by renowned plant breeder Keith Hammett of Auckland, New Zealand.

Dahlias are tender herbaceous perennials that grow from plump underground tubers to form lush clumps of compound foliage topped with daisy-like blossoms. The single, eight-petaled, blood-red blossoms of 'Mystic Wonder' have a contrasting reddish-brown...