The lovely bits, the messy bits, and the mistakes I won’t repeat – how I lift, label, wash and divide hundreds of dahlia clumps without losing track of a single variety.

I thought storing tubers would be the easy part. It turned out to be the part that taught me the most – about temperature, moisture and checking through winter.

A little corner of our website for stories from the garden: dahlias, the changing seasons, faith, family and the journey of growing Field of Grace.