Bright and effective dahlias strike with variety of forms and colourings. Some flowers successfully blossom several years in a row, but others badly postpone wintering. At the same time the dahlias which are considered as one-year can quite be landed also the next year – but only if they form rather large and viable tubers.
Annual plants or perennials: great opportunities for dahlias
Upon purchase of the bred plant future owners are interested, long-term it is dahlia or one-year. The easiest way of definition is to evaluate the tuber sizes. High-quality dahlias form the large, viable tubers suitable for division. Such plants can be grown up also seeds, but more often as planting stock allotments act. They give stronger bushes with predictable result: flowers have the same shade and the form, as maternal plants.
Sellers consider the majority of the dahlias which are on sale in the form of seedling one-year. They are grown up from seeds, adapted to certain weather conditions and well take root in garden. However buds can turn out less large, quite often seed dahlias turn out not that shade which has been stated.
"Cheerful children" are considered as the most known one-year dahlias. This grade differs in variety of colourings, indiscriminateness to leaving, rapid growth. Abundant flowers, average size, single. Shades of lobes vary from purely white or cream to saturated violet or burgundy-red. Compact bushes, with abundant greens, are suitable for cultivation on beds, jobs, miksborder. Dahlias can be landed in spacious cachepots and to place in garden, on the balcony or on verandah.
Feature of "Amicable children" – rather small tubers. For this reason they are considered unsuitable to repeated prorashchivaniye, preferring to leave tubers in the earth, and to sow in containers new portion of seeds on seedling in the winter. Such approach is quite justified, however experienced flower growers claim – every second bush is able to give planting stock, you should not neglect it.
Secrets of longevity of dahlias
It is very simple to turn perennial into seasonal plant. If to leave bushes in the earth in the conditions of midland, the Urals or Siberia, any dahlia with guarantee will die in the winter. However timely excavation of tubers, their correct storage and prorashchivaniye will help to grow up the magnificent blossoming bush with the next season.
At the end of season the deflowered bushes dig out, previously having cut off greens. Tubers are attentively examined, the large intact copies remove on storage. It is the best of all to place them in sand and to put to the cool room with not too humid air. The tubers are larger, the it is more than chances that they will successfully worry winter. However some percent of defects is inevitable, before spring landing material is touched, the begun to rot copies are thrown out.
To land dahlias in cachepot and to transfer to the house as houseplant senselessly – for successful wintering the tubers need rest and cool. Experienced flower growers recommend to keep only the most exclusive and rare grades, it is more convenient to grow up normal dahlias as annual plants, from the purchased or independently seeded seedling.