I hope you had a lovely weekend…

This month’s Garden Flowers post, which I write with garden designer Lisa Cox, features the dahlia.

Over the last few years, this wonderful bloom has started to become popular again…not only in our gardens, but also as a cut flower in the floristry industry.

Named after Andreas Dahl, a Swedish botanist, there are nine distinct flower forms of dahlia, plus a tenth group of miscellaneous.

Varieties include pompon, decorative, waterlily, single, cactus and semi-cactus.… Read more