My mom is of the age she buys only and no longer plants but I always go to her house every spring and plant for her because spring and summer would be horribly long and sad without blooms around her. She never grew dahlias but is having fun picking crazy ones for me to try. Sometimes she likes the shaggy look like the Encore one she got me last year. Of course she's almost 90 and said to me about Belle and spartacus too "go big or go home" which from someone that age I found kind of hilarious.
