I don’t know any gardeners who casually grow dahlias. Their fireworks riot of color has an intoxicating effect. You may start with one dahlia, but before you know…
Read more Gardening 101: How to Store Dahlia Tubers in Winter – GardenistaI learned that one simple gardening trick can boost harvests quickly while cutting pest numbers almost in half. The trick is companion planting: nature’s way of helping plants…
Read more 10 Plant Partnerships That Will Triple Your Harvest (Gardeners Shocked!) –Tuber Tutorial A dahlia tuber is the below-ground portion of the plant. It’s a starchy storage organ that holds the food, nutrients, and water needed for growth as…
Read more How to Lift Dahlias for Winter Storage | Gardener’s Path“I don’t do frilly,” say Diane Schaub, director of gardens at Central Park Conservancy. We are standing under the shade of an old magnolia in the English garden,…
Read more Color Theory: 10 Perfect Plant Combinations for Autumn – GardenistaCultivars to Select There are 42 species and over 57,000 dahlia cultivars, with D. coccinea the parent of all hybridized plants. Here are a few favorites from the…
Read more How to Grow Delightful Dahlias: A Late Summer StandardDahlias are beloved by gardeners and florists for their large array of glorious colors and delightful flowers that range from miniature pompoms to giant dinnerplates! Flowering from midsummer…
Read more Dahlia Flower Types: A Guide to Groups and ClassificationHappy November! True, most tender annuals are done by now, and some tender perennials are showing signs of cold damage. But even if the more joyful aspects of…
Read more What to Do in the Garden in November: Gardening Chores for Late FallWe don’t hate chrysanthemums. Let’s just get that out of the way. There is a lot to be said for their instant, impulse-buy autumnal cheer. A pot on…
Read more The Best Fall-Blooming Flowers Beyond ChrysanthemumsI caught the dahlia bug many years ago, but haven’t won the lottery yet so, as much as I’d like to, I can’t fill my garden with piles…
Read more How to Propagate Dahlias from Seed | Gardener’s PathI caught the dahlia bug many years ago, but haven’t won the lottery yet so, as much as I’d like to, I can’t fill my garden with piles…
Read more How to Propagate Dahlias from Seed | Gardener’s PathWhen my ‘Labyrinth’ dahlia is in bloom, it’s truly one of my favorite flowers in the garden. How do you top giant, foot-wide flowers in an explosion of…
Read more How to Identify and Treat 9 Common Dahlia DiseasesOn March 18th, 2020, we closed our Brooklyn Heights shops, Salter House and Picture Room, along with just about every other business in New York City as the…
Read more Moving to the Country: A City Girl Finds Hope and Harvest at Meadowburn Farm – GardenistaHere’s how Ariella Chezar has been described in recent press: “a leader in the farm-to-flower movement” (in Vogue); “the godmother of seasonal floral design” (by Erin Benzakein of…
Read more Ariella Chezar: An Interview with the Floral Designer and Author of ‘Home in Bloom’Above: Dahlias are Mexico’s national flower so they grow exceptionally well here. Gabriela’s garden presently is 3/4 of an acre and it expands little by little. She started…
Read more Gabriela Salazar’s Cut Flower Garden in Valle de Bravo, Mexico: The Floral Designer Gives Us a TourDahlias, Dahlia spp., are tuberous, tender perennials suitable for cultivation in USDA Hardiness Zones 8 to 11. In other Zones, they grow as annuals that require lifting at…
Read more When and How to Water Dahlias | Gardener’s PathWhen it comes to fungal diseases in dahlias, there are some really nasty ones to contend with. Botrytis mold and root rot can kill your tubers quickly, and…
Read more How to Identify and Manage Powdery Mildew in DahliasCaulimovirus dahliae Growing dahlias requires patience. They don’t simply pop up in spring with their big, brilliant flowers. Instead, the plants slowly develop over the summer until you’re…
Read more How to Identify and Manage Dahlia Mosaic Virus | Gardener’s PathSauvie Island, one of the largest river islands in the country, is just a quick drive from Portland, OR. Known for its mix of farmland and wildlife refuge,…
Read more Island Farm Studio: Growing Flowers and Resilience on Sauvie IslandWhen my friend and colleague Margot Guralnick and I set out to write The Low-Impact Home, we had many discussions with Remodelista founder Julie Carlson about whether our…
Read more Beyond the Meadows: An Inspiring New Book by the Homesteaders Behind KrautkopfWe are longtime admirers of English writer, cook, and gardener Sarah Raven, so we were super-excited to learn that her newest book, A Year Full of Pots, is…
Read more Sarah Raven’s ‘A Year Full of Pots’: 5 Ideas to Steal from Her New Book
