With 15 gorgeous flower forms, a brilliant range of colors, and flower sizes ranging from petite pompoms to massive dinnerplates, dahlias provide an outstanding floral display in the late summer garden!
These easily cultivated, tender perennials are often grown as annuals and suit most sunny garden settings, where they make an outstanding border plant or feature massed into groups for knockout focal points.
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Fast growing, many varieties have a tall profile that’s well-suited for adding color to the back of beds. But there are also plenty of cultivars with a compact size that make fantastic container plants.
And with a long vase life, they’re a must-have for cut flower arrangements!
Gorgeous, versatile, and highly floriferous, are you ready for a superb late summer display? Then let’s jump into 27 of the best dahlia varieties for your garden and yard!
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27 of the Best Dahlia Varieties
Dahlias are among the most versatile flowering plants with a staggering range of flower colors, forms, and sizes.
If you need help figuring out what types would work best in your garden, be sure to check out our guide to dahlia classification. It has the lowdown on the many beautiful varieties.
And this dahlia growing guide has all the steps you’ll need to create a magnificent floral display.
With thousands and thousands of cultivars available, your selection is almost unlimited… We’re not going to try and list them all here, but the sampling below is a good place to start!
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We bought an old house and have been working extra hard on a self-build extension and house renovation for the last seven months. We have installed a big fixed window pane with the idea of looking out on to a lovely green back garden, but at the moment it is just a mound of earth, derived from the dig to get foundations done. What can I place here that will green quickly and also be bee and bird friendly and give us some nice colours and view for this summer? Would a wild flower meadow be the way to go until we figure out what to do with space or what can you recommend that is eco and purse friendly? RH, Co Dublin
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