Disease Policy

According to the American Dahlia society, an average of 87% of healthy dahlia plants carry at least one dormant virus. Virus testing can be very expensive with many different tests for many different viruses. There is no guarantee that the plant won't get infected anytime after the testing took place. Therefore, I don't do testing but cull any symptomatic plants or plants that are not growing like they should. We also spray our plants routinely with fungicides and insecticides for good control of diseases and insects. Only tubers are sold from plants that have had vigorous growth and no signs of viruses during the previous growing season. Therefore, due to the prevalence of viruses and the inability to determine when a tuber has been infected, refunds are not provided for a tuber that is found to have a virus after purchasing.