A wonderful flower to have around you if you are feeling any self-doubt or are a tad overwhelmed. They assist us to connect deeply with our paths and passions and to find clarity and personal truths.
As a Flower Oracle, Dahlia are reminding you that you do have the inner-strength and fortitude to accomplish current tasks and challenges. They will be be asking you to have faith in a situation, others or yourself. Be very careful of any instabilities that you may of overlooked.
Originating in Mexico, they are also the National Flower of this country. Used as a food and a medicine by the Aztecs although exact usage is a little vague. Dahlias are an incredibly popular garden plant across the world as there are now well over 60,000 cultivars registered. In the wild you may not recognise them as they only have 8 petals.
In the garden, Dahlias like morning sun and afternoon shade. You can grow these flowers from cuttings or tubers and they are best planted in early November in Australia, mid spring in the rest of the world generally speaking but check with your local gardening resources.
When flowering, you need to make sure you dead-head (take off the dead blooms), regularly to ensure continued blooming. You need to dig up Dahlia tubers regularly and dived and replant tubers or they will become clumped together and start rotting.
bunches of love,
Cheralyn 🌻
card is from 'Flower Petals, blossoming guidance from the garden' a Language of Flowers affirmation deck of 40 flowers, written and illustrated by Cheralyn Darcey and published by Rockpool Publishing