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Red Empire Dahlia
Old Price $27.99 Price $12.99
Packed 2 per package
Availability: Out of Stock
sku # 63216
sku # 63216
Out Of Season
We ship this item in Spring at the proper planting time for your hardiness zone.
Red and white wow!
Fill your back borders with eye-catching colour, thanks to fully double, bright red flowers tipped in white. Very little maintenance required for the abundant, 20 cm blooms. If spent flowers are removed, Red Empire will keep blooming all the way until mid to late fall! Plenty of opportunity to dazzle in both borders and bouquets!
- Zone Lift in Fall
- Light Requirements Sun to Part Shade
- Height 75–90 cm
- Size #1 Clump
- Bloom Time Summer to Frost
- Deer Resistant
Plant Hardiness Zone
Plant hardiness is very important to growing success. Check the map below to determine which hardiness zone you live in. You'll find zone designations at the end of many of the plant descriptions on this site and in the print catalog.
Product Details
- FormClump/Tuber
- Flower FormVery large, up to 20 cm double flowers
- Foliage TypePinnate leaves with ovate leaflets
- Growth RateFast
- Spread60 - 90 cm
- Planting Instructions5 cm deep and 60-90 cm apart
- Soil RequirementsWell drained
- Spacing 60 - 90 cm
- Will TolerateAcidic Soil, Clay Soil, Loamy Soil, Sandy Soil
- Watering DescriptionAverage water needs. Water regularly, do not overwater
- Winter careDahlias are not hardy. Dig the tubers in fall and store in dry peatmoss in a cool, dry and frost free location. Dry tubers for a few days (preferably outside) before storing!
- PruningPinching of the secondary bud will lead to larger flowers, but less of them.
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Breck's times its shipments from Holland so that bulbs arrive at the proper planting time (depending on climatic conditions) for each area of Canada.
We take advance reservations, and then just as soon as the crops are harvested, our staff of Dutch Bulb Experts makes an on-the-spot selection of the finest bulbs available to fill those reservations.
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2021 Spring Shipping Schedule Zones Bareroot Perennials & Bulbs 3AB - 9AB 4/12/21 - 6/4/21 Last Order Date 6/7/2021
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