Lynne,
I know they're not too much work,
but here it's known as "Multiplication"
If you get my drift.....
the kids, boyscouts, mom and mom's yard stuff, my own stuff, yadda, yadda, yadda....
I do have two dahlia's, one I leave in the ground, and it over winters, the other I just keep in it's pot and let it get frosted on, then take it in my basement, *It's a stone basement with one furnace *that pumps' out here down there too* and a hot water tank.* so it's warm, just not too hot...and then the potted one I let go dry, and the top falls off... and just leave it there, and come around March I start to water it a bit and it starts to peak out, of course there's been a few years where it peaked out even without watering...
And the one I leave outside, I have to cover with mulch, which reminds me, I still have to do that!
But, it's the "TIME", hard commodity to come by these days....maybe when the kids get bigger and I have more time on my hands... *or more time becomes available on the clock, like a 36 hour day maybe!
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But I so love the one's that are huge, the one's can get up to 3 or 4ft tall I've seen, like on HGTV...and there's alot of staking involved, and the competition one's, they use shade cloth in the hot summer heat, and pinch the buds for the biggest
flowers, etc..
And I love the
cactus one's, very pretty!!!
Weezie