Dahlias: Watch your eyes when you dig!, 0 by pirl

pirl wrote:
Wow! It's amazing that she almost died due to a stake! Thank God she's fine now but what a horrible six years she had to endure.

In December I had grown weary of the annual trek of the rose trees and bringing them into the garage for the winter and then back outside in spring so I planted all three of them in the official rose garden (let's hope Zuzu never sees my rose garden). In order to protect the graft union I followed the advice of Jasper Dale (yet another great rose grower with such a gorgeous courtyard) so I wrapped each union, then added insulation, then bubble wrap, then tied them all with telephone cord. So now they all sport "rose diapers".

Seems as thought I should do something similar for any low dahlia stakes.