Dinner Plate Dahlias

Dinner plate dahlias are simply dahlias that measure more than 20cm across. This category includes dahlias from Decorative and Cactus classes, but plant them and you're sure of a dazzling show.  These enormous blossoms have many different forms including a classic, decorative form with neatly cupped petals in Café au Lait or Thomas Edison or more pointed petals such as in Show and Tell, or crazy and flounced as in Penhill Dark Monarch.

Growing dinner plate dahlias is no different from growing any other type of dahlia but their larger forms and extravagant flowers do benefit from carefully following planting, growing and dead-heading instructions.