'Fleurel' Dahlia Bulb

Every cutting garden needs 'Fleurel' Dahlia, with its giant ivory-white blooms opening from primrose-yellow buds. It complements every other color in the garden or vase, flowers reliably over an extra long season, and stops guests in their tracks with its huge double blooms.

'Fleurel' is an informal decorative dahlia, but there is nothing informal or casual about these petal-packed blooms. They begin in midsummer and continue into mid-fall in many areas, outlasting most other dahlia varieties. (Perhaps they enjoy the company of the Shasta daisies.) The outermost petals are pure white, becoming ivory and creamy toward the center. Long-lasting in garden and vase, they are splendid to behold. This is the style called dinnerplate—because the flowers are as wide as that.

This plant 'Fleurel' Dahlia is upright, about 3 feet tall and spreading 2 feet wide. It sets numerous blooms among toothy dark green foliage, and appreciates support for its heavy flowerheads. Give it full sunshine, heavy feeding, plenty of water, and adequate space in the garden (protected from high wind and driving rain) for best blooms. And such blooms you'll get.

Like all dahlias, 'Fleurel' is actually a tender perennial, hardy only in zones 8-10. Dig up the tuber before first frost and save it to replant next spring. You'll want an encore of 'Fleurel'.

SKU: 27186
Genus: Dahlia
Species: hybrid
Variety: 'Fleurel'
Item Form: Bulb
Bloom Color: White
Foliage Color: Dark Green
Habit: Upright
Light Requirements: Full Sun
Moisture Requirements: Moist, well-drained
Soil Type: Normal, loamy
Bloom Start: Mid Summer
Bloom End: Mid Fall
Uses:

• Beds
• Containers
• Cut Flowers
• Outdoor

Special Features:

• Bloom First Year
• Butterfly Lovers
• Double Blooms
• Long Bloomers
• Rose Companions

Hardiness Zones: 8 - 10
State Shipping Restrictions: GU, PR, VI