A couple of summers ago, planting these dahlias was on my To-do list for an eternity.
I got around to do it, but well into the summer. It was too late, by any gardener standards. They ended up flowering in autumn. I think some didn’t even get to fully bloom before Halloween.
But I over-wintered them, and the following spring they got started nice and early. That spring we got the whole allotment going early. We planted tomatoes in March.
In June, we were having tomato feasts daily while admiring the various dahlia varieties that got planted late the previous year.
So I guess one could say we didn’t plant them late, we actually planted them very early…