A Hand-Painted Wine and Rust If AB Brasla is quiet, Bloomquist York is the opposite — it wants to be noticed, and it earns that. The colour is a rich rusty red to burgundy wine, deepening toward a near-chocolate centre and softening at the petal tips like it's been...

Lavender Fading to Cream There's a particular kind of dahlia that photographs differently every time you point a camera at it, and Bloomquist Jody Lynn is one of them. It's a lavender-purple bloom that softens toward the edges into cream and white, so each flower...

Blush, Lavender, and Stems Like Drumsticks Some varieties earn their spot in the field by being difficult and beautiful. AB Brasla earns it by being generous. AB Brasla is also an early, generous bloomer — it gets going before a lot of the other varieties in the field...