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Dahlia

From single daisy like to round and full of petals – Dahlia’s are the queens of the garden.

 

Growing Dahlias from seed (breeding dahlias) has become one of my favourite flower addictions. The excitement of seeing each new seedling bloom for the first time, revealing its unique form is oh so joyful. Each dahlia grown from seed is essentially a ‘new’ dahlia variety, so keep your favourites, name them, multiply them and maybe even share them with others one day.

 

Seeds cannot be shipped to WA, TAS or NT 

$8.00

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Description

Seeds:  approx 50 mixed variety dahlia seeds
Sow: using paper towel method in early Spring and move to punnets to mature. Then plant out as weather starts to warm up. Pinch out at approx 20cm height to stimulate more flower stems.
Harvest: Cut blooms with long stems deep into plant to encourage more blooms with long stems. The more you harvest the blooms, the more you will get through the season..
Seed-saving: Allow flower to mature on plant and create seed head, once the seed head has browned off and is dry feeling, harvest the head and open up to find the seeds within the papery layers. Dahlia’s are quite unique in their genetics, so each seed grown will create a unique new bloom drawing from genetic traits buried within its parent’s DNA, often quite different to the parent plant. To multiply the exact bloom of a plant you can dig up and divide the clump of tubers after plant dies down in the cold. Or, you can leave the tubers untouched in the ground if it’s not soggy and the tubers will sprout and regrow the same plant again each Spring.

Please keep in mind I am a home gardener and while I have been saving and sowing my own seeds myself for years, they will sometimes not grow exactly as planned. Germination rates may vary, but I am being generous with the amount of seeds in each packet to account for this.