The “Energizer” Flower - 09A_3353_Patio-Dahlia.jpg
 

IMHO, if you want both "loads of flowers" and "easy", then its hard to
beat Dahlias. A lot of people go for the huge "dinner plate" style,
but I prefer the lower growing "border", or in this case, the
single-flowered "patio" style. This is the first bloom of the season,
and they will be in flower continuously now until the first
hard-frost. They are not hardy here in USDA Zone-6, so I do have to
dig them up in the fall, but then they will keep going and going
again next year to, like a certain bunny we know.

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Canon 1D-mkIII
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