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Why Plants Thrive One Year and Struggle the Next

Why Plants Thrive One Year and Struggle the Next

One of the mysteries of gardening is that success doesn't always repeat itself. A dahlia that was covered with flowers last year seems less vigorous this summer. A perennial you've... Read More

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What Your Dahlia Tuber Is Doing Before It Emerges

What Your Dahlia Tuber Is Doing Before It Emerges

You planted your dahlias. Now comes the waiting. Every spring, gardeners find themselves looking at bare soil and wondering whether anything is happening beneath the surface. After a few weeks,...

Peonies, Frost and the Return of Beauty

Peonies, Frost and the Return of Beauty

There is something a little curious about the way peonies behave in the cultural imagination. They are treated as the aristocrats of the garden—luxurious, fleeting, extravagant—yet almost no one talks...

After Peonies Fade, the Real Work Begins

After Peonies Fade, the Real Work Begins

Many people focus intensely on peonies while they are flowering. They carefully stake them. Photograph them endlessly. Cut armfuls for the house. During those brief weeks in spring, the flowers...

How to Read Your Garden (Instead of Reacting to It)

How to Read Your Garden (Instead of Reacting to It)

Our instinct, when something looks wrong in the garden, is to act. We zoom in on a plant. Grab the hose. Reach for the fertilizer. Pinch off the leaf. This...

Is a Snowy Winter Good for Your Garden?

Is a Snowy Winter Good for Your Garden?

A winter with deep snow can feel heavy in the moment. Walkways disappear. Beds vanish. The garden seems farther away than usual. It’s natural to wonder what all that cold...

How Wide Should Paths Be in a Cutting Garden?

How Wide Should Paths Be in a Cutting Garden?

Winter is when we look at the garden and think about what to add. A few more dahlias here, another row there, one more plant in the place that still...

Why Cutting Dahlias Produces More Flowers

Why Cutting Dahlias Produces More Flowers

There is a moment every dahlia grower recognizes. The first bloom opens—full, certain, almost impossibly beautiful—and the instinct is to leave it exactly where it is. To admire it on...

Why Dahlia Colors Change in the Garden

Why Dahlia Colors Change in the Garden

The extraordinary range of color is what draws most people to dahlias in the first place. Few flowers offer such choice: from the palest blush to deep, saturated reds, from...