Plant Care Library

Group/Class:  Dahlegria Series

Brand:  Syngenta

Description:

A beautiful variety that features a vigorous upright habit and produces large red blooms with yellow tips, sitting on top of dark green, almost black foliage; performs well in containers, garden beds and borders; great for fresh cut flower arrangements

Ornamental Features

Dahlegria® Red Yellow Bicolor Dahlia features showy red daisy flowers with gold eyes and yellow tips at the ends of the stems from late spring to early fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its pointy leaves remain dark green in color with hints of black throughout the season.

Landscape Attributes

Dahlegria® Red Yellow Bicolor Dahlia is an herbaceous annual with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.

This plant will require occasional maintenance and upkeep. Trim off the flower heads after they fade and die to encourage more blooms late into the season. It is a good choice for attracting bees and butterflies to your yard. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Dahlegria® Red Yellow Bicolor Dahlia is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Accent
• Mass Planting
• Border Edging
• General Garden Use
• Container Planting

Planting & Growing

Dahlegria® Red Yellow Bicolor Dahlia will grow to be about 20 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 16 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, individual plants should be spaced approximately 14 inches apart. This annual will normally live for one full growing season, needing replacement the following year.

This plant should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil pH, but grows best in rich soils. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid. It can be propagated by division; however, as a cultivated variety, be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.

Dahlegria® Red Yellow Bicolor Dahlia is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor pots and containers. With its upright habit of growth, it is best suited for use as a 'thriller' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination; plant it near the center of the pot, surrounded by smaller plants and those that spill over the edges. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.