question abouy dahlias

countrywoman

Can any of you clarify something for me please....are dahlias perennial flowers

I bought a few packets of dahlia tubers today but my husband reckons they are not perennials??

secman

We have plenty of them planted and the other half takes the tubers up just before christmas and keeps them in garage over the winter. they will be put back out end of march, early april. This is what they recommend, but we have also in previous years left them in the ground, some survived, some rotted, hence she took them all up this year. So in essence they come back every year once they are looked after.

ps

Hope your memory garden helps even in some small way.

Secman

countrywoman

Thanks a million for the reply secman. Also thanks for your wishes regarding my Memory garden. It's still a work in progress. I was thinking of planting the dahlia tubers in the memory garden too. I have memories of an abundance of colour from.dahlias in my grannys garden from my childhood!

redser7

You can get lovely Begonia tubers that flower throughout the summer too. These can also be lifted like dahlias and replanted in Spring. Might be a general direction you could consider? Be sure and send us some photos