WHITEHALL — Here's how spousal musicians Derek Menchinger and Leslie Boughton celebrated their 12th wedding anniversary Oct. 30: They played here with the three other members of their quintet, Blue ...

Dahlias are named after 18th-century Swedish botanist Anders Dahl. He actually categorized dahlias as a vegetable because of their edible tubers. The tubers are said to taste like a mix between ...

Let’s face it: dahlia tubers or plants aren’t exactly cheap to buy, especially when purchasing in bulk. This growing season, for instance, I spent close to $120 for eight new dahlia plants. While ...

DAHLIA aficionado Pat Cunningham likes to say he has either 40 years of experience or one year of experience 40 times over. Either way, he has grown hundreds of varieties of the flower in his ...

Since October 1926, the dahlia that blooms so beautifully each summer here in Redlands has been the official flower of the city of San Francisco and the national flower of Mexico. Named for the ...

What normally would be a colorful landscape in Loveland resident Cindy Sprague’s backyard has just a few pops of brightness. Sprague, who grows dahlias and is down to 150 from 170 plants, cites tall ...

Yellow, pink, orange, and white dahlias growing near a wrought iron fence. - Keniker/Shutterstock The kaleidoscopic flowers of the 50,000 varieties of dahlias (Dahlia spp.) bloom in every color of the ...

DO YOU plan to grow some dahlias this season? What, those dorky old grandma’s plants, I hear some of you exclaim. If that’s your thinking, think again. The dahlia is currently seen by many who love ...

Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. BELCHERTOWN — Tightly-packed rows of soil-filled plastic bags hang by clothespin to a ...

Colourful, graceful and striking, single-flower dahlias have come into vogue. Graham Rice picks the best new varieties now on offer. The 'Happy Single Flame' dahlia, a red perennial flower with dark ...