When you want show-stopping plants with big flowers, nothing beats dinner plate dahlias. These tall, colorful, long-blooming plants feature flower heads that can grow to more than 12 inches wide.

I’ve always adored dahlias – in other people’s gardens. As much as their cheerful appearance intrigued me, there was something about the planting, staking, digging up and storing-over-winter routine ...

Many gardening friends in the East grow dahlias instead of roses because they’re not subject to the range of diseases that roses are. Here, roses are rarely afflicted with black spot, but some folks ...

If you have ever seen a gigantic “dinner plate” dahlia, you know what a show-stopper these flowers can be in the garden. But this is only one form of the popular garden flower. There is a dahlia to ...

Dahlias tubers that are stored indoors in winter are susceptible to getting dried out. But if that happens, there are ways to save them by adding moisture.