Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Pompon Dahlia. This variety is similar to ball dahlias but even smaller and rounder. They resemble plush, miniature cushions and are ideal for adding delicate texture to floral arrangements.
'Moonfire' (VanDusen Botanical Garden, Stan Shebs)The following is a list of dahlia cultivars which have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.They are tuberous perennials, originally from South America, with showy daisy-like composite flowerheads in all shades and combinations of white, yellow, orange, pink and red, flowering in late summer and autumn (fall).
Dahlias tend to attract quite a bit of insects, some which are dangerous and harmful to their survival. Insects like slugs, earwigs, the red spider, snails, caterpillars, aphids, and thrips threaten dahlias because they can eat the petals, leave slime trials, leave tattered petals, etc. Dahlias can also become infected with the following diseases: Sclerotinia disease, fungal diseases, mildew ...
Group 2 – Anemone-flowered dahlias (Anem) – The centre of the flower consists of dense elongated tubular florets, longer than the disc florets of Single dahlias, while the outer parts have one or more rings of flatter ray florets. Disc absent.
There are 42 accepted species of flowering plants in the genus Dahlia, according to The Plant List. [1] The sectional classification of Dahlia sensu Sørensen (1969) [ 2 ] as updated by Saar et al. (2003) [ 3 ] and Hansen (2004) [ 4 ] and (2008) [ 5 ] is as follows (excluding infraspecific taxa);
Dahlia 'Arabian Night' is a branching, tuberous tender perennial cultivar with deep-red flowers, almost black looking, with slightly incurved petals. The fully double flowers are as large as 4 in. wide (10 cm). This Dahlia belongs to the Decorative Dahlias classification and was introduced in the Netherlands by Weijers in 1951.
It was selected by and named to honour Joshua Pritchard Hughes, Bishop of Llandaff, in 1924 and won the RHS Award of Garden Merit in 1928. The plant is about 1 m tall and flowers from June until September. As with all dahlias, frost blackens its foliage, and in areas prone to frost its tubers need to be overwintered in a dry, frost-free place.
Dahlia coccinea is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae. Its common name is red dahlia , although the flowers can be orange or occasionally yellow, as well as the more common red.