Dahlia 'Purple Gem'
- Stunning spikey, semi-cactus blooms for unique floral displays.
- A gorgeous shade of rich purple to light up your garden.
- Easy to grow and a cottage garden favourite, perfect in pots, beds, and borders.
- Superb as cut flowers to bring into your home for an amazing, colourful display.
- Supplied as a pack of 3 tubers, ready to plant out.
Product Description
'Purple Gem' is a gorgeous variety of Dahlia that is perfect for adding unique flowers and stunning colours to your summer garden.
These fabulous semi-cactus dahlias are guaranteed to add drama to your summer floral displays. Producing eye-catching flowers made up of multiple petals creating a round spikey head in a beautiful rich shade of purple.
A cottage garden favourite, 'Purple Gem' will come into bloom in June and keep flowering through to autumn, providing you with four months of gorgeous colour. So easy to grow, as they are supplied as tubers, packed full of energy to burst into growth in Spring and produce a mass of bright colours which will pepper your garden like gemstones as Summer turns to Autumn.
Dahlias are perfect for planting in your bed, borders, patio pots and containers. They also make fabulous cut flowers so pick a bunch of these pastel beauties to bring into your home for amazing colour.
Dahlias will need some winter protection if you want them to return next year, we recommend that you dig them up before the first frost arrives and keep them stored over the winter.
Supplied as a pack of 3 tubers, ready to plant out.
What Is Supplied
Supplied as a pack of 3 tubers, ready to plant out.
Plant Information
Top Tips
Care Guide
- Dahlias are tender tubers and do best when potted up initially in March or early April, into large pots (2 - 3L) filled with multi-purpose compost.
- Placed in a light, frost-free place and kept moist, they'll quickly form bushy plants by the time the frosts have ended, ready to be planted out into the garden.
- In the garden, dig a hole at least 30cm wide x 30cm deep for each one, spacing each tuber 75cm apart.
- If you don’t have anywhere to start them in pots, you can put the tubers straight into the ground when the frosts are nearly over.
- Once a fortnight, feed them with a liquid feed such as our Blooming Fast Superior plant feed.
- During dry periods, water at least once a week.
- Dahlias should be deadheaded regularly to encourage more blooms and you will need to stake the plants to prevent the flowers from breaking the stems.
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