LABELLA® Maggiore Purple Dahlia

Elevate your garden beds and containers with the Dahlia LABELLA® Maggiore Purple, a variety that truly commands attention. Its monumental, royal purple blooms rise proudly above sturdy, dark foliage, creating a dramatic and luxurious contrast in any landscape. This generous and early-flowering variety instantly transforms your outdoor spaces into a botanical showcase, delivering maximum visual impact with minimal effort.

Characteristics

• Foliage : Features dense, deeply lobed, rich dark green leaves that provide the perfect backdrop to showcase the brilliance of the blooms.
• Flowering : Produces massive, velvety, intense purple double flowers (decorative type). Blooms continuously from June until the first frost.
• Light Requirements : Requires a full sun location to maximize flower production and ensure strong, upright stems.
• Habit : Displays a bushy, upright, and well-branched habit that typically does not require staking despite the size of the flowers.
• Growth : Quickly reaches its mature size, forming a vigorous and compact plant.
• Soil : Prefers soil rich in organic matter, fertile, and above all, well-drained.
• Temperature : Non-hardy perennial in Canada (Zone 8-9); tubers must be stored indoors for the winter.
• Resistance : Good weather resistance and heat tolerance as long as the soil remains cool and moist.

Use

• Types of use : Ideal as a focal point in large containers, along garden borders, or grouped in mass plantings for a bold color statement. Excellent cut flower for floral arrangements.
• Decorative advantages : Provides vertical structure and exceptional chromatic depth thanks to its saturated purple hue.

Maintenance

• Watering : Water regularly to keep the soil uniformly moist, especially during heatwaves. Avoid wetting the foliage to prevent fungal diseases.
• Fertilization : Apply a fertilizer rich in phosphorus and potassium every two weeks during the growing season to support continuous blooming.
• Pruning : Deadhead spent flowers regularly to encourage the development of new buds.
• Planting : Plant outdoors once all risk of frost has passed, at a depth of 10 to 15 cm.
• Winter Protection : After the first hard frost, dig up the tubers, clean them, and store in a cool (5-10°C), dry place in vermiculite or peat moss.