Dahlia: Bride to Be

A modern classic, Bride to Be is vigorous, rambunctious and a reliable source of pure white flowers for weddings. The perfect filler for bouquets. Deadhead daily for an abundance of blooms. A must have dahlia for a flower farm. Forget cafe au lait. This is your wedding workhorse. 

By rambunctious I mean she will grow 3m wide if left undivided for five years. Canes tend to arch, get heavy with flowers. touch the soil, grow another plant and it all gets messy. So I always build a solid cage around each Bride to Be that I plant. She never lets me down.

(Gitts, 2004, USA)