There are many attractive Dahlias available each year to be grown in the garden. They can also be grown from seed and often bloom the first year if started early enough. On this page we will picture cultivars, named and unnamed. Photos with MCBG in the file name were taken by Mary Sue Ittner at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens August 2004.
Dahlia 'Ballerina' is pink with a creamy yellow center.
Dahlia 'Barbarossa'
Dahlia 'Bishop of Llandaff' has garnet flowers and mahogany colored foliage. Photos by Arnold Trachtenberg.
Dahlia 'Curly Que'
Dahlia 'Purple Joy' is described as a double blue flower with a purple tint.
Dahlia 'Summer's End'
Dahlia 'Swan's Sunset'
Dahlia 'Thomas Edison' on four different web sites was described as radiant fantastic purple, dark velvety purple, buds red opening magenta with a fuschia center, and dark red.
These Dahlias were photographed by Mary Sue Ittner in August 2004 in the Dahlia Dell in the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens. They didn't always have tags with names on them and some of the ones that were named may have been named incorrectly. I have included ones without names below.
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