Red blooms with golden edges

With their soft, quilled petals and vibrant colors, dahlias add a burst of color and life to your late-summer gardens. Decorative dahlias produce more, but smaller blooms than their Dinnerplate cousins. The mid-sized flowers are great for fresh-cut bouquets and arrangements. With thousands of dahlia varieties to choose from, you can find them in a rainbow of unique colours, different styles and unexpected flower shapes. Dahlias range from the miniatures, just a few inches tall with the 2-inch lollipop-style pompons to the huge-flowered "Dinner plates" with their wonderful big glossy-leaved plants that grow up to five feet and bloom with flowers 10 to 12 inches across. As other annuals and perennials start to fade, Dahlias begin to bloom, stunning and impressive, all the way to the first frost. Prolific bloomers.