Supercharge Your Low-Maintenance Garden With This Showstopping Plant — Dahlia Cafe au Lait
You Will Love Dahlia Cafe au Lait Because…
It has gigantic (15cm across) and luxurious flower heads of soft creamy peachy pink. An indescribably beautiful colour, but one that seems to enchant everyone.
Even just one of these superb flowers will stop you in your tracks as you look at your garden.
Dahlia Cafe au Lait flowers are luscious and opulent. They’re produced abundantly from around midsummer until November.
If you pick some of these sublime beauties for the house, (how could you not?) plenty more will spring up for your delight.
Compelling Special Features
The way the enormous flowers curve back on themselves invites closer inspection and mindful observation.
The longer you look at dahlia Cafe au Lait’s bewitching flowers, the more colours you will see.
Some petals are pinker, some are peachier and some are the colour of Jersey milk. Day by day, more petals will unfold to show you their inner beauty.
These nostalgic flowers feel like the most expensive heavy silk as you cut them for your house.
This gorgeous dahlia will happily thrive in a container and easily boost your midsummer flower display.
Compelling Special Features Score: 9/10
The Nitty Gritty
Your lovely dahlia is a tender perennial. Which means that you will need to protect it from frost.
Plant the knobbly tuber in good quality compost in springtime. Keep undercover and moist until the frost risk has passed.
This stunning dahlia can grow up to 1.2m, so it might need staking with a bamboo cane or similar.
For the maximum quantity of dazzling flowers, start feeding your dahlia with tomato feed when the flowers appear. Feed every two weeks until September.
If you grow your dahlia in a container, you may need to lift out the tuber and store in a cool dry place over the winter. Or, if yours are in the ground, you could cover them with a thick mulch to protect them from frosts.
If you live in a milder area, you may be able to leave them as they are.
Nitty Gritty Score: 7/10
Overall Wow Factor
Dahlias do need a tiny bit more effort than some plants in your low-maintenance garden.
But just look at those exquisite flowers. Aren’t they absolutely worth it?
Supercharged Showstopping Score for Dahlia Cafe au Lait: 8/10
Looking for more ways to supercharge your low-maintenance garden?
Have a look at these…
