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. Most of the photos below were taken by Mary Sue Ittner at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens August 2004.
Dahlia 'Babylon Red' is about four feet high with seven inch diameter flowers. Photograph by David Pilling.
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 'Mrs. Eileen' is about four feet high with eight inch diameter flowers. Photographs by David Pilling.
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.
Dahlia 'Yellow Happiness' is about two feet tall with flowers 6 inches across. Photograph by David Pilling
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.
