Enjoy dazzling dahlias in pots all summer with this simple guide to choosing, planting, and growing these popular flowers.

The planting season is underway, and gardeners are making tough decisions about perennials, annuals and what to put where.

To help with your spring plant-selecting, here's a collection of plants that have won assorted awards for the 2025 growing season.

After preparing the soil properly, it's a good idea to set up stakes, especially since tall dahlia varieties can become top-heavy and some even have vine-like qualities. Stone suggests placing ...

Dahlias can be purchased as single tubers ... no more than 1 to 2 inches below the soil. 4. Pinch. When plants are 12 inches tall, pinch off the top of the main stem to encourage branching.

Perennial flowers are those that you plant once, they flower than survive the winter and return to bloom again the following ...

Most gladioli are reasonably tall ... giant flowered varieties such as ‘Café au Lait’ with its 22cm diameter blooms and Fimbriata frilly cactus types. Dahlias must be planted after the ...

Dahlias are hungry plants so improving your soil beforehand ... So if the variety grows to above 3ft, use a tall stake such as a bamboo cane that you can tie the plant to as it grows taller.

One last thing to think about is how tall you want the plants. Impatiens come in sizes from 6 inches to 18 inches. May is a great month to plant dahlia tubers, but be patient. They might not bloom ...