Dahlia City Lights Red

Dahlia City Lights Red has luscious red flowers in tight pompoms on compact plants with rich burgundy foliage.

The Dahlia City Lights series offers burgundy-leaved cultivars with stunning double flowers in a range of colours on compact plants to 18 in. high. City Lights Red has luscious red flowers in tight pompoms. Dahlia are hardy to the winter temperatures of coastal BC but not to the winter wet. Grow outside in locations that are dry in winter or lift and store in a cool, dry location indoors like everyone else does.

Common Name:  Dahlia

Family:  Asteraceae (The Asteraceae Family)

Zone Hardiness:  8-11

Light:  Full Sun

Height:  12-24"

Width:  12-24"

Primary Bloom Colour:  Red

Secondary Bloom Colour:  Yellow

Bloom Time:  Summer - Fall

Foliage Colour:  Burgundy/Red/Purple

Class:  Deciduous

Type:  Perennial

Soil Moisture:  Average, Dry

Stem Colour:  

Fragrance:  No

Berries:  

Benefits:  

Deer Resistant:  Unknown

BC Native:  No

Native Habitat:  Native to Mexico, where they grow in sharply draining uplands and mountains characterized as "pine-oak woodland" that does not experience frost.

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Geographical Origin:  North America, Garden Origin