It’s time to order your dahlia tubers and dream about warm summer days full of vivid colour. There’s plenty of choice, because they’re riding high in the plant fashion stakes, and deservedly so. After all, they flower from July until the first frost intervenes, and these days that can mean early November for many of us.
Frost is one way nature brings the gardening season to an end. Honestly, there have been years when I prayed that Jack would arrive by mid-August, bringing early dormancy to
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