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Dahlia imperialis
Dahlia imperialis
Price: $12.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
Tree Dahlia. This gets 20+ feet tall. I repeat, 20+ feet tall. With stalks as thick as your arm, this gives the effect of a large clump of Bamboo but no, it's a Dahlia. One would imagine the flowers to be the size of trash can lids but they normal 5" lavender pink blossoms. Like all Dahlias, these are excellent cut if you have a tall enough vase and a cathedral ceiling. This needs a long season to bloom so here in our area they need to be frost-free well into November. Uptown Port Townsend it blooms. Seattle it blooms. Far Reaches Farm it frosts the buds off. I swear we can almost see the one in Uptown flowering less then 2 miles away as we stand alongside our frost-blackened dashed hope. Still, we had a lot of conversational mileage out of it over the summer. In coastal northern California, this will flower most of the winter. We mulch ours deeply each fall in case of a bad winter. Our friend Ricky in Seattle always ask me how big did mine get? (It's a guy thing - I've accepted it.) A couple years ago he said his was 24 feet three and a quarter inches. You can tell it is serious business when the fractions of inches count on a Dahlia over two stories tall. (By the way, Ricky's was bigger - I still struggle with it)
Dahlia imperialis 'California Angel'
Dahlia imperialis 'California Angel'
Price: $12.00 In Stock

Large Band Pot
This is a double white Tree Dahlia introduced to California by Wayne Roderick. We saw several doubles growing at Strybing Botanical Garden years ago and thought someone should do something with them. Tony Avent thought so too and named this one. Why not have a really tall Dahlia? Like 12'-15'? This waits until quite late in the fall to flower so milder gardens are best. We are so close to being able to bloom this in our frost pocket garden but oh well. Mulch deeply for winter if you get hard freezes.