Cherish is a wonderful dahlia with beautful wine highlights on ivory to buttery lemon flowers. She is very productive.
We grow all of our dahlias on our farm in Cashton, Wisconsin. We love having our late season heirloom gardens burst with colors from all of our dahlias. We currently raise over 20 types and offer around 40-50 types each year. We plant by hand and harvest by hand. This allows us to bring healthy tubers to the market and gives us many more checkpoints for inspecting our stock.
Characteristics
- 3-4' tall
- Blooms are 3-4” wide
- USDA Zones 8-10 (Hardy in these zones, lift and store in winter in other zones)
- Summer to Fall
- Bloom Duration: Continuous Blooms through frost starting in mid to late summer
- Full Sun to Partial Shade
Additional Information
- Great for Mass Plantings, Borders, and Cutting Gardens.
- Great for butterflies and other pollinators
- Ships starting by early April. We have shipped in the fall but do please reach out for this.
Key Planting Tips
We plant dahlia tubers 4-6" deep. We add a few alfafla pellets in the hole and backfill with topsoil amended with compost. We space this variety 18" apart. We recommend to simply pinch back the shoots after about 3-4 weeks to encourage branching.
You can amend soil with 10-10-10 or something similar. Just make sure the first number (nitrogen) is 5 or 10. You can fertilize every 4 weeks to help achieve larger blossoms.
For 90% of us, don’t water until your Dahlia sprouts. If your soil is very dry, water the soil first and then let it stand for 30 minutes before planting. Mulch around your plant leaving bare dirt directly above the tuber.
Every tuber is inspected by me (Andre Paquette) and then hand packed for shipment. In case of any issues, we reach our proactively to go over options. If you have any questions hit the Chat with Us Now button simply reach out by email or a phone call.
