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Learn to Grow Dahlias with Confidence — From Our Colorado Flower Farm

Growing dahlias doesn’t have to feel overwhelming. Whether you’re planting your very first tuber or refining your approach season after season, this page brings together everything we’ve learned from growing dahlias in Colorado for over six years.

Inside our Learn hub, you’ll find proven resources designed to support you at every stage of your growing journey:

  • Our Beginner Dahlia Starter Bundle, featuring reliable varieties we’ve grown, tested, and loved in real Colorado conditions
  • A Beginner Grow-Along Email Course, so you’re never guessing what to do next as the season unfolds
  • How-To Videos you can watch, revisit, and reference whenever you need visual guidance
  • In-Depth Blog Posts that go beyond surface advice and explain the “why” behind successful growing
  • Our Colorado Dahlia Growing Guide, where we share exactly how we navigate unpredictable weather, temperature swings, and high-altitude challenges

This isn’t generic advice pulled from a textbook. Everything here comes directly from hands-on experience, real successes, real failures, and real seasons in the field.

If you want practical, honest guidance — and a learning library you can return to year after year — you’re in the right place.

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Our Values:

  1. We will inspire new gardeners to grow dahlias.
  2. We will use flowers to give back to our community.
  3. We will grow locally and sustainably.
  4. Gardener, community, and the earth before profit.

We will inspire new gardeners to grow dahlias

The picture on the right was our first year growing dahlias and zinnias and we gave all of these blooms away to local Medical Centers during COVID and it changed our lives.

If we can grow dahlias, so can you! And we are learning how to better help you get started every year! Take a look at the below offerings and see what can help you!

And, we are always learning how to best help. So, drop us an email at info@pedalingpetals.org as each question or comment helps us help the next person in there dahlia growing journey!

We offer a Dahlia starter Tuber Collection

The dahlias that are in our starter collection are the one’s we grew when we started and continue to thrive year after year. So, what better way to start growing dahlias than these tried and true favorites!

Shop our easy to grow dahlias

Grow with us!

We offer a free Grow With Us email course perfect for the beginning grower!

You will see how and when we grow dahlias each step of the way and what we look for to insure great blooms.

Each email with include short video content so you can see how we grow and pointers from our experiences of growing in Colorado and Wisconsin! Sign up below!

How to grow dahlias videos

We show you how we grow our dahlias with short how-to video’s that you can always come back to!

How-to video’s

In depth blog posts

We go in depth on specific dahlia growing topics that we touch on briefly in our email course, our growing guide, and even more in depth than our how-to video’s

Blog posts

Colorado dahlia growing guide

We have created a guide to guide you through the tough growing conditions in Colorado due to the elevation, dry climate, and heavy clay soils

Colorado growing guide