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...
Quick overview for dahlia lovers Dahlia tubers are dormant storage roots — they carry all the energy a plant needs for the season inside a cluster of swollen roots attached to a piece of old stem, called the crown. That's where next year's shoots, the "eyes," emerge....
Quick overview for dahlia lovers Rooted dahlia cuttings give you a head start: they’re young shoots already producing roots, true to variety, and ready to become confident, flowering plants in a single season. At Bloomlier we send cuttings that have at least...
I first fell for dahlias on a sunny summer morning in a small courtyard in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands: a rescued clay pot, a single rooted cutting, and the surprise of a bloom opening bright against weather that still felt like winter. That quiet, stubborn joy is what...