Let’s chat about dahlias.
Who knew they were currently so popular? Well, they are, if my Instagram and Facebook feeds are anything to go by. Even in real life, their beautiful flowers are abundant in bouquets and markets, in buckets alongside other homegrown floral delights, and on the roadside around our lovely suburban and urban areas.
It all started with my eyeing punnets of dahlias at our local garden centre during early summer. As usual, I was diverted from the task at hand, which was to look for and purchase healthy-looking vegetable punnets. I managed to make up my mind and chose a few dahlia punnets, the short variety, as I’m wary of growing the tall ones due to the garden area being a bit of a wind tunnel. Though perhaps in the 2026/27 growing season, I might be more adventurous with their size and the various shapes of their blooms. You never know, and it’s quite delightful watching flowers become fairy-like dancing in the garden on a windy day.
As we near the end of the flowering season, I keep nudging and encouraging the lovely Dahlias to give us just one or two more blooms. By deadheading the old, and a quiet threat that if they don’t keep performing, out they go. Seems to be working.
Life at No. 22 