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Acton Garden Club: Gardening with Dahlias
May 6 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am
FreePresentation by Betsy Szymczak – Open to all
Someone once said that peonies are the “Show Girls” of the spring garden; with dahlias, it’s all about late summer-early fall “Royalty!” Following a brief history of the discovery of dahlias, you will learn how to select dahlia tubers, where to plant, how to water and fertilize. To stake or not to stake, to dig or not to dig – these are the questions! If you dig tubers, how to store, overwinter, and to wake them up for planting. A discussion of American Dahlia Society Classification and how to make cutting, enter a dahlia show will follow.
Betsy is an avid outdoor vegetable and flower gardener. She grows about 75 dahlia varieties in a relatively small suburban garden in Natick. Betsy is a member of the American Dahlia Society (ADS), Yankee, Connecticut, and New England Dahlia Societies and is an ADS accredited judge. She is the immediate past president of the Natick Garden Club. Betsy is also a Principle Certified MA Master Gardener, and volunteers at Elm Bank in Wellesley and the Longfellow House in Cambridge, MA. She is a National Garden Club (NGC) – Garden Consultant and is training to become an accredited NGC Flower Show judge.