2019 Dahlias - Big Brother and Color Spectacle
Yesterday, I shared a couple of photos of some Elephant Ear bulbs that I am planning on putting in containers on the patio this Season . Today, I'm sharing two more sets of bulbs - or in this case..."Tubers" is what they're actually called - for this Season. Dahlias can be grown in the garden or in containers. I think the pros put them in the ground/garden and then in Zones like ours (5b), pull them out of the ground in the Fall to store them over Winter. But...they *can* be grown in containers. Why do I think that? Because of this article on the official site of The American Dahlia Society . It walks you through how to grow them in pots. (Hint...start them low and gradually add soil on top of them as they shoot up.) I think I'm going to try a little bit of both - putting some of our Dahlias in containers while putting others directly in the landscape. So far we've bought two varieties of tubers. First, a Dinnerplate variety called &q