LABELLA® Maggiore Fun Flame Dahlia

Ignite your landscape with the Dahlia LABELLA® Maggiore Fun Flame, a variety that truly lives up to its name. Its imposing double blooms feature an incandescent gradient, moving from a sunny yellow heart to vibrant reddish-orange tips, mimicking the dance of flames. This high-spirited plant isn't just spectacular to look at; it boasts exceptional vigor and a compact structure, ensuring a high-colour show throughout the season without ever fading.

Characteristics

• Foliage : Features deep forest green leaves, providing a rich and profound contrast that literally makes the warm tones of the blooms "pop."
• Flowering : Produces enormous double flowers with bicolor yellow and orange-red petals. Flowering is early, extremely generous, and continues relentlessly from June until the first frosts.
• Light Requirements : Requires full sun to accentuate the contrast of its warm colours and ensure vigorous growth.
• Habit : Displays a very solid bushy and upright habit; sturdy stems support the heavy flowers without drooping.
• Growth : Exhibits rapid growth, quickly forming a dense and well-branched plant.
• Soil : Prefers rich, loose soil, well-supplied with humus and perfectly drained.
• Temperature : Non-hardy perennial in Canada (Zone 8); requires winter storage of tubers away from frost.
• Resistance : Very good resistance to summer heat and moderate winds.

Use

• Types of use : Ideal for creating a dynamic focal point in terrace containers or for adding a warm, tropical touch to mass plantings and flower beds.
• Decorative advantages : Its vibrant colours create a visual effect of warmth and luminosity, drawing attention from afar.

Maintenance

• Watering : Water regularly to maintain constant moisture at the root level, especially during heatwaves, while avoiding waterlogging the soil.
• Fertilization : Apply a fertilizer rich in potassium every two weeks to support the uninterrupted production of giant flowers.
• Pruning : Diligently remove spent flowers to encourage the continuous appearance of new buds.
• Planting : Plant outdoors only when the soil is well-warmed and the risk of night frosts has passed.
• Winter Protection : After the first frost, dig up the tubers, clean them, and store in a cool, dry place (between 5 and 10°C).