Description
These favorite plants come in two basic types: compact bedding forms and tall border types. Both have upright stems and grow from tuberous roots. They come in an amazing range of colors and flower forms, from single, small, daisy-like blooms to huge, ruffled flowers up to 8″ across. Compact bedding dahlias are ideal for container gardens and for edging beds. Use the border types to add height and color to gardens in late summer to fall. Dahlias also make great cut flowers.They flower abundantly and consistently all summer long. The flowers are large with shorter stems that do not stretch too far above the foliage.. Their fall-ish color will make an audacious statement in your early summer garden, and keeps on blooming right through the first frost. Fewer flowers say “summer” like the bold blooms of dahlias. These favorite plants come in two basic types: compact bedding forms and tall border types. Both have upright stems and grow from tuberous roots. They come in an amazing range of colors and flower forms, from single, small, daisy-like blooms to huge, ruffled flowers up to 8″ across. Compact bedding dahlias are ideal for container gardens and for edging beds. Use the border types to add height and color to gardens in late summer to fall. Dahlias also make great cut flowers. These beauties are set apart from other Dahlia varieties by their delicate deep mahogany to black foliage topped with masses of rich flower colored blooms. They have strong sturdy stems and do not require staking.Enjoy the deep burgundy red blooms of Dahlia XXL ‘Taxco’ in your garden or containers. Standing 20 inches tall and 18 inches wide ‘Taxco’ flowers are held up tall on the deep green sturdy stems. The rich burgundy red flowers of ‘Taxco’ deepen to an almost black center on the 6 inches wide with a fully double blooms. The XXL series of Dahlia are very vigorous and will give you garden color from early to late summer. The perfect plant for cut flowers, in fact, the more your trim and dead head your plants the more blooms it will produce for you to enjoy.
