Dahlia Crazy Love

On January 21st 2018 I planted two dahlias, Crazy Love and Snowflake, in a largish pot, or so I thought at the time, cosseted them through the winter and put the pot in the garden. Fast forward to last Summer 2023 and a gigantic Dahlia emerged throwing up one enormous beautiful flower. After flowering it died back and all that was there this spring was a tall, dry, hollow thing and to my shame I couldn’t remember what had been in the pot. I snapped off the dead stalks and top dressed with a little compost and left it in the garden.

This year I have potted up a variety of bare roots and they are here and there round the garden and I have done a daily check for fresh growth on all my pots. For a few days I have seen some new shoots that as soon as they had popped up were being eaten by, I assume, slugs. I decided this morning that action was needed so thinking the slugs were hiding in the pot and popping up daily to eat a breakfast of my plant I emptied the pot and found a monster.

I believe what I found was an enormous clump, obviously pot bound,, of Dahlia. Today I have emptied a large pot that used to contain a Wisteria. The Wisteria simply fell off its perch about a month ago. Simply keeled over. Today I have repotted the monster. I considered splitting it and did a bit of research about how to do this but, whether it was because of the time of year or not I don’t know but it was impossible to budge. Maybe that will be a job for next January.

Crazy Love Dahlias are a new variety that have a truly beautiful flower. Each bloom is a wonderful white kissed with soft lilac at the tip of every petal and they are very easy to grow, perform well in virtually any position in the garden. Dahlia Crazy Love is also a fantastic choice to make a statement in larger planters. The more blooms you pick, the more the plants will produce. 

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Ok. Can’t wait to see what appears this year.