{"id":9959,"date":"2016-08-30T08:24:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T07:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9959"},"modified":"2016-08-15T15:50:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T14:50:36","slug":"big-brash-dahlias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/big-brash-dahlias\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Brash Dahlias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Dahlia by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3986860060\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3457\/3986860060_97db52b354.jpg\" alt=\"Dahlia\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dahlias may still be out of fashion in many gardening circles but I am an affectionado and think they are well worth growing.<\/p>\n<p>I have just started off last years tubers in big plant pots that I will plant out lock stock and barrel (literally in some cases) when the spring flowers have gone along with any danger of frost.<\/p>\n<p>I left some tubers in the ground last autumn but after this winter I am not hopeful. It is damp rather than cold that does the damage so you never know.<\/p>\n<p>If I was keen and earlier (around February) then I could have forced the tubers then taken cuttings and grown them on. Still last years tubers divided easily this week and I could see the eyes or young shoots.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed a waste to compost some of the tubers that had no stalk to them but they would never grow so off to the bin with them.<\/p>\n<p>I have been a bit precious about growing annual dahlias but some seed mixes provide great results. If it is quick late colour you want give the annuals a try.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=dahlia\"> Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/a> supply seeds and tubers.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dalek Dahlia by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4010698319\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2445\/4010698319_6c3b150929.jpg\" alt=\"Dalek Dahlia\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong><br \/>\nDark leaved Bishop&#8217;s children Dahlias are looking very good as Autumn comes to an end. Children will be surprised the leaves are not green and the flowers remain so colourful <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=10627&amp;action=edit\">read more <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dahlia by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6166405326\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6168\/6166405326_57e2d00d60.jpg\" alt=\"Dahlia\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From dinner plate to Bishops children there is a Dahlia to suit everone<\/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-9959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959","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=9959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}