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Asteraceae
DAHLIA 'Deerwood Erika'
Dahlia, Deerwood Erika Dahlia, Miniature Ball Dahlia
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Nothing beats dahlias as everblooming bedding plants and cutflowers. Cultivar 'Deerwood Erika' 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 ball flowers are double in form, with rounded, tube-like petals that are a deep lavender-pink. It is good to remove the old buds from spent flowers to encourage continued flowering.
Dahlias prefer well-drained, fertile soil and full to partial sun. The most beautiful flowers occur when nights are comfortably cool and days warm and sunny. Hybrid dahlias are often grown from divisions of tuberous roots and cuttings to preserve their unique characteristics. Dahlias are cold sensitive and their tuberous roots should be lifted and overwintered in cool dry locations where winters are harsh. In hot, humid subtropical regions the dahlia is best grown in the late fall and winter with the start of the dry season.
12 - 1
8 - 11
1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Bulb or Corm or Tuber
Full Sun, Partial Sun
2'-3' / 0.6m - 0.9m
Hybrid Origin
Neutral
Well Drained
Loam, Sand
Fast
Average Water
Clump-Forming
Spring, Summer, Fall
Showy
Pink, Lavender
Dark Green
Yes
No
Double
Coarse
Matte
Semi-Evergreen
Bedding Plant, Container, Cutflower, Feature Plant, Mixed Border, Tropical
Butterflies
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