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Before you Buy Dahlia Tubers – Read Me Please

If you have gardens set by color, as I do, check the background color of the leaves in the photo of the dahlia tuber you are looking to buy. I find many sellers will color adjust to make a dahlia seem a rarer color than it actually is. Or, perhaps a new seller may not pay attention ensuring a color is true when they throw up a photo of the dahlia for sale.

Garden Chores – January – Cold Stratification Guide

The goal of the home gardener’s cold stratification process is to mimic the winter conditions the seed in the wild would experience in the habitat that plant is best suited for. In my own example, Gentian is a mountain flower. The seed, in the wild, would cold stratify under snowpack (moist) in a cold environment with freezing temperatures.