How to choose dahlias you actually cut.
On choosing for form, colour and use.
Dahlias, along with annuals are the backbone of a nascent cutting garden. When starting out, these will be no doubt the first plants you grow. Cheap and with the quickest resulting buckets of blooms. Perennials and shrubs will take a few years to establish so a collection of dahlias will give you dramatic focal flowers from about late July through to th…