{"id":20122,"date":"2019-07-15T17:39:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T16:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20122"},"modified":"2019-07-15T17:39:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T16:39:28","slug":"cactus-dahlia-white-and-bright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/cactus-dahlia-white-and-bright\/","title":{"rendered":"Cactus Dahlia White and Bright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20123\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/whites-006-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/whites-006-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/whites-006-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/whites-006-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/whites-006-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Bright &amp; Breezy Dahlia<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>My Dahlias have been flowering early and successfully since the beginning of July. The white cactus plants are the most forward with the collarettes just starting.<\/li>\n<li>I no longer leave the plants in the ground over winter as I have lost too many tubers to rot in the wet conditions we get in Yorkshire.<\/li>\n<li>I store tubers in old pillowcases in the garage. Plastic bags would cause fungus and rot.<\/li>\n<li>I divide up the tubers in early spring.\u00c2\u00a0 Some are easy to divide thus increasing stock. Other clumps of tubers need cutting into pieces all with a neck left on from last year. New growth comes from the neck not the tuber itself.<\/li>\n<li>I start off the tubers in plant pots but I am too lazy to take cuttings which I am told would make stronger plants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20124\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/whites-002a-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/whites-002a-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/whites-002a-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/whites-002a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/whites-002a-768x575.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Dahlia Cut Flowers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\">There are as many cut flower tips as there are dahlia species. Dahlia are meant to be long lasting in a vase.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\">Keep your cut dahlias out of the sun and out of the heat.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\">P<\/span><\/span>ick early in the day as with most cut flower.<\/li>\n<li>Choose blooms that have started to unfurl &#8211; neither tight\u00c2\u00a0 buds nor fully open.<\/li>\n<li>Place the Dahlia stems in\u00c2\u00a0 hot tap water then allow them to cool for an hour.<\/li>\n<li>Use fresh water when arranging then change it every couple of days.<\/li>\n<li>Remove any foliage from the stems to avoid it decaying in the water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20126\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/whites-005-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/whites-005-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/whites-005-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/whites-005-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/whites-005-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Garden tips<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Cut back to encourage more stems and deadhead to encourage more blooms<\/li>\n<li>Water well and regularly<\/li>\n<li>Stake taller varieties<\/li>\n<li>Give dahlias plenty of room<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20125\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/whites-003a-1024x816.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/whites-003a-1024x816.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/whites-003a-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/whites-003a-768x612.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bright &amp; Breezy Dahlia My Dahlias have been flowering early and successfully since the beginning of July. The white cactus plants are the most forward with the collarettes just starting. I no longer leave the plants in the ground over winter as I have lost too many tubers to rot in the wet conditions we get in Yorkshire. I store tubers in old pillowcases in the garage. Plastic bags would cause fungus and rot. I divide up the tubers in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/cactus-dahlia-white-and-bright\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20122"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20131,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20122\/revisions\/20131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}