Dahlia

Dahlia was not something that I was planning to plant this spring. But when I came across a packet of three bulbs, I could not resist it and I picked it up on an impulse planning to plant it alternatively with the lily plant.
It took a good long while for the shoot to come out of the soil, but once it did the plant grew much faster. Of the three bulbs I planted, one of bulbs rotted under the soil itself, not quite sure why that happened. The other two are doing much better. Here is a picture of the dahlia plant in the first week of May.....