This dahlia kind of snuck up on me. To be honest, I don’t remember having a white dahlia this good in my batch of 2022 seedlings, but here she is! And she certainly paid her way in flowers this Summer!
To me she just screams WEDDING! White dahlias have been used en masse in just about every Summer wedding I’ve provided flowers for, and I like to have a variety of different sizes and forms to supply florists with so that it’s not too same-same.
So I’m very proud to introduce Flora’s ‘Pure Joy’ … because she’s just that!
She’s been my most commented-on white so far, and I can see why with her pointy petals, high petal count and larger size. Technically, she falls in the ‘small’ size range as defined by the NZ Dahlia Society (115 – 155mm) but as far as using dahlias in a bouquet goes, I feel she falls towards the larger end of what I would use…I think I need to make my own guidelines for dahlia sizing and get me some of those funky dahlia sizing rings!
HOME TRUTHS ABOUT PURE JOY
Approx Bloom Size, 8-10cm
Like all pale dahlias, prone to showing thrip damage (so keep those critters under control!)
And now for the downside (because I did say we hadn’t found the perfect white seedling yet…and I like to think of myself as an honest person)… she had thin stems for her second flush of flowers this year. I grew her in a spot that got heavily shaded as the season progressed and the sun got lower, so I’m not sure what her stems would have been like if grown in more sun…
She produces many long, skinny tubers. These will need a bit more than a ‘throw them under the hedge and hope for the best’ storage system to prevent them from dehydrating too much.
This dahlia kind of snuck up on me. To be honest, I don’t remember having a white dahlia this good in my batch of 2022 seedlings, but here she is! And she certainly paid her way in flowers this Summer!
To me she just screams WEDDING! White dahlias have been used en masse in just about every Summer wedding I’ve provided flowers for, and I like to have a variety of different sizes and forms to supply florists with so that it’s not too same-same.
So I’m very proud to introduce Flora’s ‘Pure Joy’ … because she’s just that!
She’s been my most commented-on white so far, and I can see why with her pointy petals, high petal count and larger size. Technically, she falls in the ‘small’ size range as defined by the NZ Dahlia Society (115 – 155mm) but as far as using dahlias in a bouquet goes, I feel she falls towards the larger end of what I would use…I think I need to make my own guidelines for dahlia sizing and get me some of those funky dahlia sizing rings!
HOME TRUTHS ABOUT PURE JOY
Approx Bloom Size, 8-10cm
Like all pale dahlias, prone to showing thrip damage (so keep those critters under control!)
And now for the downside (because I did say we hadn’t found the perfect white seedling yet…and I like to think of myself as an honest person)… she had thin stems for her second flush of flowers this year. I grew her in a spot that got heavily shaded as the season progressed and the sun got lower, so I’m not sure what her stems would have been like if grown in more sun…
She produces many long, skinny tubers. These will need a bit more than a ‘throw them under the hedge and hope for the best’ storage system to prevent them from dehydrating too much.
