Red Dahlia Flower

In mid to late summer Dahlia’s offer a kaleidoscopic explosion of colour for our gardens until they are cut back by the first frosts. They range in size from dwarf plants of about 30 cm, to massive 150 cm giants. Practically every colour is represented, and they range from tiny little pompom flowers to dinner plate size blooms. They produce flower after flower, so there are also plenty for the vase. Some of the flowers are a single row of petals, but most have hundreds of petals tightly packed in big fat buds that burst forth into the most amazing floral works of art. Outrageously dramatic, often ostentatious, yet always ravishing