How Wide Should Paths Be in a Cutting Garden?

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...

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...

There’s a moment every winter when gardeners sit with a catalog or a screen and feel the pull of novelty. New colors. New forms. Names they’ve never seen before. It’s...

Much of how we talk about flowers is often shaped by images of abundance—beds filled edge to edge, plants growing shoulder to shoulder, color everywhere at once. It’s an appealing...

We have often written about growing dahlias in the glacial soils of the Northeast, a region where the weather refuses to follow a single script—cool mornings, sudden drought, and, in...

There’s something timeless about the way chrysanthemums close the gardening year. Their blooms seem to capture the essence of autumn light — soft, steady, and reassuring. But this flower season...

For decades, an old rule has been a guide: wait for a hard frost, then wait two more weeks before digging. Like much traditional advice, it’s partly true. Frost does...

It just seems to ache when dahlias—those exuberant, generous stars of late summer—stand tall but withhold their flowers. Many gardeners across the country watched sturdy stems and healthy leaves rise,...