FAQs & Answers

Yes!  eGift Cards are available for sale in our online shop.  They can be used to purchase items in our online shop including dahlia tubers and seeds!

Your eGift Card can be manually entered on the checkout page.  Or you can add your eGift Card to your Medeek Meadows account ahead of time which makes it super easy to use when you checkout – ensure you’re signed in first then just tick the box to apply a portion of or all of your eGift Card balance for payment.

No.  Sorry, eGift Cards can only be used for purchases made online thru our web shop.

Yes! All of our dahlia tubers offered for sale are products of Canada. All of our dahlias are grown, harvested, processed and packaged in Terrace, BC, Canada.

The best time to buy dahlia tubers is usually over the winter and early spring months for best selection and availability. Winter orders are delivered to customers or available for pick up locally in the spring.

January of each year! Follow us on Bluesky, FB and IG and subscribe to our emails to see when we announce the re-opening of tuber sales.

Yes! Dahlia seeds can be shipped at any time. If purchased at the same time as dahlia tubers, the seeds will be sent out earlier and separately so that you have the seeds in plenty of time to get them started. Tubers are shipped when weather permits (usually starting mid April).

No, we do not sell dahlia tubers for fall shipping. This ensures that any tuber losses during winter storage are incurred by us and not you the customer.

No, we do not currently ship dahlia tubers or seeds outside of Canada (perhaps in the future!).

No, we do not ship plants grown from cuttings. Our focus is totally tubular!

One of the most genetically diverse and beautiful flowering plants! Dahlias are grown world wide! They are a tuberous plant and considered a tender perennial. Dahlia flowers come in many shapes, sizes and colours! Plants can be overwintered in the ground only in areas of the world where the ground does not freeze. They are native to Mexico. In most areas of Canada dahlia plants are dug up/lifted in the fall. Tubers are harvested and stored indoors over the winter where they are protected from freezing.

A dahlia tuber looks like a potato. It is one way that the dahlia plant can be propagated asexually. A dahlia plant will form a clump of tubers under the soil. The part of the clump where the tubers attach and the stalks emerge is called the crown. Clumps of tubers can be split into individual tubers. A viable tuber can produce a new dahlia plant. An individual viable tuber has 3 parts: body, neck, and crown with an eye. A clump can have many non-viable tubers. Non-viable tubers are those with broken necks, no crown, a crown with no eye (blind). Blind tubers occur in different ways. When tubers grow off other tubers. When a tuber has been split from the crown without an eye. When a piece of the crown is absent. The body of the tuber provides food to sustain a new plant. The neck of the tuber connects the crown to the body of food. The eye of the crown is where a shoot will start to grow a new plant.

In our humble opinion, yes!!! dahlias are easy to grow and definitely worth the effort! Check out our Dahlia Tips & Care page for more info…

Every year it seems there is a new “must have” dahlia. But there are always old favourites that we grow year after year. Dahlias come in a variety of forms (i.e. waterlily, ball, formal decorative, informal decorative, cactus…), many colours (except blue and green), many sizes ( blooms from <2″ to more than 10″ across) and many heights (plants <2′ tall to more than 6′ tall). Some varieties are well suited for cut flowers (longer stems) and some are better suited to be enjoyed in the garden (thick stocky stems, shorter stems etc)… Soft pinks, whites and blush toned dahlias are always popular for weddings. We create classic dahlia bouquets all season long and find that we need to grow all the colours to satisfy our customers preferences throughout the season… Some bouquets are filled with exciting bright and saturated colours, while others might be full of softer tones. In September and October, the fall colour themed bouquets filled with bronze, yellow, orange and red toned dahlias are especially popular!

Sometimes there are dahlias that will work better for your location or situation. If you live in a zone with a shorter growing season, you may want to select dahlia varieties that are known to be early to mid season bloomers and stay away from those that are known to bloom later in the season. If you can only grow dahlias in pots or raised beds, look for shorter varieties (up to ~ 3′). If you’re growing dahlias for cut flowers & bouquets, look for varieties that have longer stems that aren’t too thick or too flimsy- we prefer bloom sizes under 5″ for use in bouquets, but sometimes a bigger bloom is spectacular as a focal flower for a special event! Our shop has a variety of filter options to help you find the dahlias that will work best for you!

For the most part, no, dahlias left in the ground over the winter will not survive. If the tubers freeze, they will turn to mush when they thaw and then they’ll rot. Check out the Digging & Storing section on our Dahlia Tips & Care page for more info…

It depends on the variety and the growing conditions! We provide height estimates for all of the dahlia varieties we sell in our shop based on our own experiences growing them – you may get slightly different results. Soils, fertilizer, sunshine/shade, rain, temperature… all influence how dahlias grow. Some varieties are short barely reaching 2.5′ tall while others can reach heights over 6′ tall. Dahlias grown in a greenhouse can reach heights substantially taller than the same varieties grown in the field.

Yes! Dahlias can be grown in pots & grow bags. If you don’t have room in the garden or maybe you just want a few pots on your patio to enjoy, you can grow dahlias in pots. We recommend growing shorter varieties that don’t get much taller than 3′ like American Sun, Ferncliff Thunder, Pretty Please, Arabian Night etc…(use the handy height filter in our dahlia tuber shop to find dahlias in this height range). Ensure you use large pots – at least 5 gallons, so the tubers have room to grow. Remember that dahlias grown in pots or grow bags will need a little more attention – you’ll need to water & fertilize more often than for those grown directly in the ground.

Dahlias do the best in full sun all day long. If dahlias are shaded for part of the day, you’ll find that they probably bloom a little less and a little later and tuber development might not be as robust as when grown in full sun. We find that they grow best in warm sunny weather. Not too hot and not too cold. Mid 20’s Celsius is ideal.

Yes…but…! Dahlias grown from seed will not produce the exact same flower as the parent dahlias. Dahlias with blooms the same as the parent dahlia can only be grown from tubers or cuttings. Growing dahlias from seed takes more work, resources & equipment than growing from tubers and you need to get them started earlier (i.e. sow mid March to plant out mid May to get blooms starting approximately end of July/early August).

Yes! Dahlias propagate readily via cuttings (we do not sell or ship cuttings). Cuttings will produce blooms the same as the parent dahlia. Growing dahlias from cuttings takes more work, resources & equipment than growing from tubers and subsequently generates more waste (i.e. single use plastic pots). Cuttings need to be started earlier than tubers to get blooms starting approximately end of July/early August.

Yes, they can, but not always. We have found that cuttings do not always produce a nice clump of tubers. Sometimes despite blooming nicely during the season, they may just grow a clump of hairy feeder roots that can’t be overwintered. Tuber production may depend on the variety, when and how the cutting was taken, whether or not the cutting became root bound before transplanting, health of parent plant and growing conditions. Tuber clumps from plants grown from cuttings often take more time to process, are more difficult to split and produce fewer viable tubers than those grown from tubers.

A dahlia sport occurs when the plant produces a bloom that is different in form or colour from the original.  For example, a plant that produces fully double blooms may start producing single blooms with open centres.  Sometimes you may see a petal in a colour entirely different from the rest of the bloom (wolf petals). Sometimes the whole bloom may be a different colour or form than what is expected.

Yes, we sell our home grown and fresh cut flower bouquets locally in Terrace!

Our dahlia bouquet season usually starts around the middle of July and finishes up towards the end of September or early October.

Locally direct from the farm stand (by request or subscription), at Sherwood Mountain Brewery and at The Red Raven Art Gallery.

Yes! Each season offer limited numbers of bouquet subscriptions with delivery or pickup from the farm stand!

We do! We offer farmer’s choice buckets of blooms for sale mid-August to mid-September. Perfect for the DIY bride! Sorry, we do not have the capacity to do arrangements, bouquets, or floral installations for weddings at this time.

Dahlias are a beautiful choice for wedding flowers! The dahlia season for us in Terrace, BC, Canada is generally mid-July until end of September. Mother Nature plays a big role in dahlia bloom availability. We grow most of our dahlias in the field and not in a controlled greenhouse environment. If your wedding date is somewhere between mid-August and mid-September, you can plan to have dahlias for your wedding! If your date is outside of that window, it’s harder to bet on having enough dahlia blooms for your wedding.

There are so many beautiful dahlia varieties in a wide range of colours. We specialize in growing and cultivating dahlias that are well suited for bouquets and cut flowers. Browse our shop to get a sense of the range of colours and beautiful blooms to fit your colour palette.

Grow as many plants as you have room for! Expect to lose some blooms to weather or bug damage. Keep the plants blooming by deadheading spent blooms or cutting stems for bouquets. The more you cut, the more blooms you’ll get! Shoot for dahlias that are early to mid season bloomers. Blooms under 4″ tend to bloom earlier than the large blooms and also work wonderfully for bouquets and arrangements. Avoid varieties that are known to be late bloomers.

Check out these links to learn about the origins of our beloved dahlias!
History of the Dahlia – National Dahlia Society
Dahlia Nomenclature and Brief History – American Dahlia Society

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