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My Simple Dahlia Fertilizing Plan
I started growing dahlias more than ten years ago. Back then, I’d pick up a few tubers from the local garden center each spring and, I hate to admit it, I treated them like annuals. Once I learned you could dig them up, store them, and replant them year after year, it completely changed the
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Creating a Garden That Feels Beautiful, Not Perfect
One of the things that make a flower garden so special is that it’s never truly perfect. Some blooms lean sideways. Some plants grow taller than expected. There are gaps where seeds never sprouted, petals touched by rain, and flower beds that somehow become overgrown by mid-summer. And honestly, that’s the beauty of it. In
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Early Morning Greenhouse Rituals & the Start of Dahlia Season
There’s a certain kind of excitement that arrives long before the flowers do. For dahlia lovers, the season begins in the quiet moments, hauling pots in and out each day to slowly harden them off, watching the weather obsessively, and checking trays for any signs of life. I was lucky enough to talk my husband
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Why Dahlias Have a Way of Taking Over the Garden
There’s something about dahlias that starts innocently enough. Maybe it begins with a single tuber tucked into a garden bed in spring. Maybe it’s one bouquet at the farmer’s market or a photo of a flower so perfect it hardly looks real. But somewhere between the first sprouts emerging and the late-summer explosion of flowers,