(Dahlia, Dahlietta Violet Frost Dahlia, Decorative Dahlia)

The semi-double, bicolored blooms of Dahlietta™ Violet Frost are white to palest pink with deep violet-red edges and yellow centers. This vigorous, heavy-flowering dwarf dahlia was introduced by the Ball Horticultural Company and is ideal for container culture.

This warm season herbaceous tender perennial grows from bulbous underground tubers and have rich green compound leaves with toothed margins. The colorful flowers appear continuously and are attractive to bees and butterflies. Remove...

(Bashful Dahlia, Dahlia, Single Dahlia)

Few garden plants rival dahlias as everblooming bedding plants and cutflowers. The multicolored 'Bashful' 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 numerous 4- to 6-inch (10 to 15 cm) flowers are dark violet-burgundy and long-lasting. Petal edges are pink. In the center of the flower is a tuft of bright yellow stamens. It is good to remove the spent flowers to encourage...

(Dahlia, Decorative Dahlia, Mystic Spirit Dahlia)

If you love the pastel color of peach or apricot, the Mystic Spirit dahlia is a must-have. A half-hardy hybrid dahlia developed in New Zealand, Mystic Wonder dahlia -- cultivar 'Best Bet' -- produces peach to delicate apricot-tainted, single-form flowers and greenish burgundy-black leaves with bluntly teethed edges. New leaves emerge glossy dark green before attaining more blackish burgundy tint. Plants are well-branched, forming a compact, upright oval silhouette that does not required staking....

(Bishop of Llandaff Dahlia, Dahlia, Peony-flowering Dahlia)

Nothing beats dahlias as everblooming bedding plants and cut flowers. Cultivar 'Bishop of Llandaff' is a herbaceous, warm season, tender perennial with bulbous underground tubers. Its blackened red, compound foliage is made of single, oval and pointed leaflets with toothed margins. The long-lasting miniature, single to semi-doubled, peony-form flowers are blood red with yellow and black centers.and long-lasting. It is good to remove the old buds from spent flowers to encourage continued flowering....

(Bishop of Oxford Dahlia, Dahlia, Peony-flowering Dahlia)

Nothing beats dahlias as everblooming bedding plants and cutflowers. Cultivar 'Bishop of Oxford' is a herbaceous, warm season, tender perennial with bulbous underground tubers. Its compound, bronze-burgundy foliage is made of single, oval and pointed leaflets with toothed margins. The medium-sized, peony-flowered blossoms are long-lasting, with rusty orange petals surrounding a black and yellow central eye. It is good to remove the old buds from spent flowers to encourage continued flowering.

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(Bishop's Children Dahlia, Dahlia, Single Dahlia)

Nothing beats dahlias as everblooming bedding plants and cutflowers. Cultivar 'Bishop's Children' is a collection of herbaceous, warm season, tender perennials with bulbous underground tubers. Their purple foliage is made of single, oval and pointed leaflets with toothed margins on compound leaves. The medium-sized, peony-flowered, single to semi-doubled flowers are long-lasting, warmly colored in solids and bicolors of red, orange, yellow, purple and pink, some striped. It is good to remove the...

(Bjorn Dahlia, Dahlia, Formal Decorative Dahlia)

Few garden plants rival dahlias as everblooming bedding plants and cutflowers. The selection 'Bjorn' 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 5-inch (12 cm), formal double (extra petals) flowers are dark red and long-lasting. The petal rows overlap to create a full, perfectly shaped flower head. It is good to remove the spent flowers to encourage continued flower production...

(Black Beauty Dahlia, Dahlia, Waterlily Dahlia)

The dahlia 'Black Beauty' bears semi-double, dark maroon, yellow-eyed blossoms on compact, leafy, well-branched plants. It flowers in late summer and autumn from seed planted in spring.

Dahlias are frost-tender, summer-growing perennials that grow from bulbous underground tubers. Their rich green compound leaves have oval, toothed leaflets. The colorful flowers continue for many weeks and are attractive to bees and butterflies. Remove the spent flowers to encourage reblooming.

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(Anemone Dahlia, Blue Bayou Dahlia, Dahlia)

Few garden plants rival dahlias as everblooming bedding plants and the prolific production of anemone-like flowers of 'Blue Bayou' illustrate this point perfectly! Introduced in 1998, this hybrid satisfies best when its flowers are not cut for bouquet use. The 4-inch-wide (10 cm) flowers have an outer ring of violet-lavender petals. In the flower center is a ruffled cluster of purple-violet petaloids. Remove the spent flowers to encourage continued flower production up until frost. The dahlia is...

(Blue Bell Dahlia, Dahlia, Informal Decorative Dahlia)

Few garden plants rival dahlias as everblooming bedding plants or cut flowers, and the medium purple blooms of 'Blue Bell' make this point. Introduced around 2004, this hybrid produces purple ("blue" in the dahlia world) flowers that are considered informal double in form. They measure 4 to 9 inches (10 to 23 cm) in diameter. Multiple rows of oval petals overlap to create a handsome flower head that lasts a long time. Remove the spent flowers to encourage continued flower production up until frost....