What I mean with cheap is just you have for a few dollar or pound 3-4 months flowers special if you take out the first few young flower buts and take out all the seed-pods so they can't set seeds and bryan is absolute right its easy to make cuttings if you start early , for example now inside Roland 2011/3/10 Brian Whyer <brian.whyer@btinternet.com>: > Dahlia nurseries will grow named forms year after year taking cuttings from their previous years tubers, with the same quality each year. If you are planting or splitting tubers and restrict the shoots to just 2 or 3 then they should be little different from the previous year. If you grow from tubers they will flower slightly -- R de Boer La Maugardiere 1 F 27260 EPAIGNES FRANCE Phone./Fax 0033-232-576-204 Email: bulborum@gmail.com