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The motivation for today’s column is the 2024 annual Dahlia Show, presented by the Monterey Bay Dahlia Society. The column presents an overview of this plant’s annual cycle. Details on the 2024 Dahlia ...

Spartacus is a rich dark red dahlia, but Steve Meggos has bred yellow, lavender, orange, white and bicolored flowers with it. Meggos, who has been growing the big, exotic blooms for 30 years, has come ...

This column contains a string of motives. First, it’s about a very popular group of garden plants: Dahlias. Many gardeners find dahlias very appealing, along with roses, irises, succulents and ...

Dahlias are a beautiful addition to summer gardens. Grown from tuberous roots planted in the spring, dahlia blooms come in a near endless array of colors and forms. From spiky-petaled cactus-types to ...

If you can’t get enough of growing dahlias in your garden but don’t want to buy new tubers every spring, the good news is that dahlia tubers can last for years under the right storage conditions.

While I know Rochester is home to some tried-and-true dahlia lovers (hence the Rochester Dahlia Society), some home gardeners are less familiar with this exquisite flowering plant. The big, bushy ...

DAHLIA aficionado Pat Cunningham likes to say he has either 40 years of experience or one year of experience 40 times over. Either way, he has grown hundreds of varieties of the flower in his ...

Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences have unveiled a list of all the new animal, plant and fungi species that they added to the Library of Life in 2024. The new species include a pygmy ...