Dahlias are a beautiful all round flower - by choosing your varieties you can have cut flowers, borders and terraces full of colour well into late summer AND early autumn.

Colours range from the palest pinks through to chocolate box reds; fiery oranges to purples and foliage from green to dark bronze.

THE VARIETIES

The Collection is divided into nine Varieties. Each plant has a unique collection number and name.

DECORATIVE
Decorative dahlias have fully double blooms showing no disc. The ray florets are either involute, scarceley involute, not involute, or revolute at apex and either come to a point, abruptly come to a point or indented.

CACTUS
Cactus dahlias have fully double blooms, the ray florets are usually pointed, the majority narrow and resolute for 50% or more of their length (longitudinal axis) and either straight or incurving.

SEMI-CACTUS
Semi-Cactus dahlias have fully double blooms; the ray florets are usually pointed and revolute for more than 25% of their length and broad at the base and either straight or incurving. GIANT - Flower size over 254 mm/10 inches diameter

WATERLILY
Waterlily dahlias have fully double blooms characterised by broad and generally sparse fay florets, which are straight or slightly involute along their length giving the flower a shallow appearance. The depth should be less than half the diameter of the bloom.

POMPON
Pompon dahlias have fully double spherical blooms of miniature size, with florets largely involute along their length (longitudinal axis).

BALL
Ball dahlias have fully double blooms showing no disc, ball shaped or slightly flattened. The ray florets are displayed in spiral arrangements and are involute and round at the apex.

COLLERETTE
Collerette dahlias have blooms with a single outer ring of generally flat ray florets, which may overlap, with a ring of small florets (The Collar) the centre forming a disc.
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DWARF
Dwarf dahlias are those suitable for growing at the front of the border and in pots, growing up to 2' in height.

MISCELLANEOUS
Any dahlias which do not fall into the other groups are included here such as single orchid, double orchid, anemone types.

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