Boom Boom White Dahlia Plant

Boom Boom White Dahlia brightens your garden with its pristine 3-5 inch blooms, featuring pure white petals rolled into perfect, ball-shaped clusters that gleam with a subtle creamy center. This elegant variety blooms steadily from midsummer to frost, adding a crisp, luminous touch to borders, containers, and cut arrangements, supported by strong stems and lush green foliage.

And this radiant beauty keeps shining through. It rolls out those snowy, globe-like flowers all season with effortless grace, needing just a sunny patch and a bit of care to thrive. Heat? It glows in it like a summer star. Pests and deer? They catch sight of this crisp wonder and turn tail, outdone by its bold purity.

Planting Instructions:

• - Plant tubers when soil reaches 60°F. Space them 4-6 inches deep with crown up and roots down

Soil Preparation:

• - Prefers well-drained, fertile soil

Watering Specifics:

• - Wait until green sprouts emerge from the soil before watering
• - Then water deeply 2-3 times per week, and daily if plants are in containers

Fertilizer Type:

• - Use fertilizers with a lower nitrogen count; half the amount of nitrogen relative to phosphorus and potassium (lower N on NPK ratio)
• - Fertilize every 2-3 weeks for containers and every 3-4 weeks for soil grown plants

Pruning and Training:

• - Pinch back the main shoot to encourage branching and more flowers
• - Deadhead spent blooms to encourage continuous flowering

Additional Pest Management:

• - Inspect regularly for pests like aphids, slugs, and snails

Temperature Tolerance:

• - Protect plants from early frosts with mulch or fleece covers to extend the flowering season

Overwintering:

• - After frost has turned the foliage brown, dig up tubers and store them over the winter
• - Clean tubers and let them dry for a few days in a frost-free location, then store in cool, dry place in slightly moist peat moss or sand