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Asteraceae
DAHLIA 'Honka'
Dahlia, Honka Dahlia, Single Dahlia
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Nothing beats dahlias as everblooming bedding plants and cutflowers. Cultivar 'Honka' is a herbaceous, warm season, tender perennial with bulbous underground tubers. Its green compound foliage is made of single, oval and pointed leaflets with toothed margins. The medium-sized, single, orchid-form flowers have very narrow yellow petals surrounding a compact central disc that is golden yellow. 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. This cultivar is lovely when planted among the similarly shaped, but red blossoms of cultivar 'Marie Schnugg'.
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'-4' / 0.6m - 1.2m
2'-3' / 0.6m - 0.9m
Hybrid Origin
Neutral
Well Drained
Loam, Sand
Fast
Average Water
Clump-Forming
Spring, Summer, Fall
Showy
Yellow, Gold
Bicolor
Green
Yes
No
Single
Coarse
Matte
Semi-Evergreen
Bedding Plant, Container, Cutflower, Feature Plant, Mixed Border, Tropical
Butterflies
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