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Dahlias

So I was driving home from work one day last September and I always saw this house with these huge and I mean huge beautiful yellow flowers out front that are amazing.  I saw the older lady that lives there outside for the first time so I stopped. I asked her what kind of flowers they were.  In a really thick Greek accent she said they were Dahlias  that she brought over from he home in Greece many,many years ago. I told her they were the most beautiful flowers ever.   Mind you they are the size of a dinner plate.  Well she said "please wait" to me and she went around back of he house ad handed me a bag and it looked like a bag of 10 dirty potatoes.  She said you can have some. I was ecstatic! Now I am going to have these gorgeous flowers in my yard? She said " keep them in the basement in a dark place until spring then plant them root down."  So I shard half with my sister in-law and now I am starting to see the flowers come...