In my very tiny flower farm I grow approximately 300 dahlia plants each year of about 50 varieties. I’ve been working on narrowing down the varieties I grow over the last couple of years, firstly because I have such a small amount of space I really only have room for useful and productive blooms and secondly so that I have a little room each year to try some new varieties out.
Allow me to introduce the varieties I’ve been trialling for a year or two and am excited to increase my stock of!
Bracken Sarah: Super productive and a lovely yellow/orange mix without being too bright and garish.
Glenbank Honeycomb: So, so productive and the pompons are great to arrange with – also not a bloom I can buy commercially.
Florelie dandelion: I wasn’t expecting this bloom to be as small as it is but I love it. Small blooms are great to arrange with and it’s such an unusual fluffy form.
Florelie Angostura: Can’t resist the random white patches on this delightful coloured flower. Lovely upright strong stems, super productive plant.
Jessie G: The productive mid burgundy dahlia I’ve been dreaming of. I don’t know why it took me so long to get my hands on this gal.
Kismet: Generally I’m not a fan of the cactus varieties but this one hits different. Fabulous colour, productive and robust.
Formby pearl: This one is fast climbing into my top 10 list! So useful when building colour palettes to have that little splash of pink in the centre, and a nice tight ball shape which I love.
Merton peach single: This bloom has starred in many a wedding bouquet this season. Two tone blooms tie colour palettes together and with the sweet daisy like centre she’s very on trend at the moment. Also crazy productive and nice strong stems.
Florelie Oracle: The colour alone, such a beautiful, slightly dusty pink with these sweet golden tipped petals. Strong, healthy and productive.
Not pictured but which Ill also be growing some more of are Florelie whipped cream (just when I thought I didn’t need another white, but the form of these petals is irresistible), alpine charm (such a beautiful colour but terrible tuber producer so she’s hard to multiply!) and coconut ice (because I think i can forgive the weird centre until i can find a more productive pale pink)…
Bracken Sarah
Florelie Oracle
Kismet
Mertons Peach Single