"Deadheading Dahlias" sounds like a great name for a hard rock band. But if your tastes run more to a summer garden filled with dinner-sized blooms in nearly every color, you know that deadheading ...

Deadhead spent blooms weekly by cutting stems back to the main branch to encourage bigger, better flowers. Water deeply once or twice a week and feed with a low-nitrogen, high-phosphorus fertilizer to ...

Deadheading dahlias regularly is key to a long, vigorous blooming season. Fading blooms should be deadheaded as soon as the flower centers start opening. Making deep cuts when deadheading encourages a ...

Whether you're growing dahlias in containers or planted a large patch of them in your garden, their gorgeous, stop-in-your-tracks blooms are sure to delight. To get as many dahlias as possible and ...

The dahlia (Dahlia spp) is a charming flower that makes gardeners wait until the middle of summer to enjoy blooms that range in color from deep purple to salmon pink and delicate yellow. It's worth ...

Keep blooms in your garden well into fall. The end of summer may seem like a slow time in the garden as heat stresses plants, bloom production begins to reduce, and growth begins to slow, but it’s the ...