Dahlia 'Foxy Lady'

Dahlia 'Foxy Lady' is incredibly beautiful with its luminous creamy yellow petals brushed with gentle coral pink at their tips, highlighting the perfect form of the blooms. The undersides of this formal decorative Dahlia are touched with a deeper rose. The fully double flowers are medium-sized, up to 3-4 in. wide (7-10 cm), and quite spectacular atop the dark green foliage. Born on strong stems, they make perfect cut flowers.
Dahlias come originally from Central and South America, particularly Mexico where they are the national flower. In their homeland, their natural habitats are cool moist mountain slopes. Their flowers were prized for their beauty early on, and the Aztecs used the tubers as a food crop as well as for medicinal purposes. Botanists who boarded the ships of the Spanish conquistadores discovered the imposing flower in the 17th century. Europeans first tested them as a food crop but soon admired them for their beautiful flowers. The plant was named in honor of A. Dahl, a Swedish botanist. This scientific name became so established that a common name for dahlias never took hold.
During the nineteenth century, the dahlia began stealing the hearts of people all over the world; today there are 20,000 different varieties. And every one is a descendent of one of the original species such as Dahlia rosea.

Water moderately, allowing the top 3cm to dry out between watering.

Dahlia 'foxy Lady'

Dahlia 'Foxy Lady'

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