Let us introduce you to our wonderful new dahlia varieties for 2022! We’ve grown these varieties for 3 seasons now – starting them from seed in the 2019/2020 season. They’ll all be available for purchase in late August. Make sure you’re on the mailing list by following this link to sign up – the sale has been highly competitive in the past and will be exclusively advertised to those on the mailing list.
You’ll notice that many of these new varieties are the result of seed swaps that we have done with other growers. In Autumn 2019 the farm had two early frosts that impacted our ability to save seed. Many thanks to LeeAnn from Coseytown Flowers, Sarah from Unfurlings and Sam from Wild Violet Farm for helping us to have a successful 2020 seedling year after all.
Please note that plant height is highly variable with dahlias depending on the growing conditions. We have included average plant heights here as a guide only.
Florelie Tutu
A soft lilac which at times appears pink with pointy fimbriated petals. Fimbriated petals are also known as laciniated petals which means they have split tips. This variety is easy to cut from and provides great variation of shape in an arrangement. This seed was obtained through a seed swap with LeeAnn from Coseytown Flowers in Pennsylvania USA.
Classification: Miniature Informal Decorative
Plant Height: 100 cm
Florelie Bordeaux
Classification: Miniature Informal Decorative
Plant Height: 100cm
Florelie Whipped Cream
A dramatic, wavy petalled decorative bloom. The plants produce long stems and many blooms over the season. A good, cool white colour. This variety has a clear link through the petal shape to its seed parent, Peaches n Cream. This seed was obtained through a seed swap with LeeAnn from Coseytown Flowers in Pennsylvania USA.
Classification: Small Informal Decorative
Plant Height: 150cm
Florelie Chryssie
This variety produces many incredibly cute blooms over the season. It is easy to harvest and has lovely long, straight stems. Although the petal count is lower than many Florelie varieties, it is an incredibly important variety in the cut flower repertoire on the farm, particularly for wedding orders.
Classification: Miniature Informal Decorative (similar size to a pompon dahlia)
Plant Height: 110-120cm
Florelie Baroness
Although the plants are shorter, this variety provides good, straight stems for cutting and often has an upright facing bloom. Upright facing blooms are great for using in bunches. The blooms are a dark lilac colour with a high petal count. This seed was obtained through a seed swap with Sam from Wild Violet Farm in Victoria.
Classification: Small Formal Decorative
Plant Height: 80cm
Florelie Guava
This variety is a deep watermelon colour with dramatic dark purple stems and dark green leaves. Early on in the season especially, the flowers have a darker outline to the petals. Each petal also has a delightful gold tip. This is a productive variety that lasts well in a vase considering its larger size. This seed was obtained through a seed swap with Sam from Wild Violet Farm in Victoria.
Classification: Small Formal Decorative
Plant Height: 100-120cm
Florelie Paradise
These blooms are a lovely colour that could be classed as coral, burnt orange or watermelon – it fills many colour needs on the farm and is a popular shade in current trends. This variety is very productive, we would recommend cutting every bloom if possible to manage the plant habit. This seed was obtained through a seed swap with Sarah from Unfurlings in New Zealand.
Classification: Miniature Informal Decorative
Plant Height: 80cm
Florelie Cowrie
This tiny flower has the growth habit of a spray rose, often with multiple blooms opening on a stem at the same time. The flowers are about 5cm in diameter and are a cool white colour with a blush of lilac in the centre. The stems improve over the season with consistent picking. Make sure to pinch growing tips out of the plants twice early on in the season to avoid overly thick stems. This seed was obtained through a seed swap with Sarah from Unfurlings in New Zealand.
Classification: Miniature Formal Decorative
Plant Height: 100cm
Florelie Macaw
This variety has tall plants with incredibly strong stems that are very long and easy to pick. The flowers are a perfect crimson colour with great stem attachment and bloom angle. The petal count is on the low side but is a lovely open shape for variation in arrangements.
Classification: Miniature Informal Decorative
Plant Height: 150cm
Florelie Sunburst
A very bright yellow decorative bloom. This variety was an exclusive release to workshop attendees in 2021 and a competition was held amongst workshop attendees to name the variety. 2022 is the first year this will be released to the general public as part of our tuber sale.
Classification: Miniature Formal Decorative
Plant Height: 80cm
Let us know which one if your favourite by posting a comment below.
Amazing love the watermelon and coral colours.
I have a show garden in Bundanoon nsw cool climate so looking for anything rare
Your garden sounds beautiful!
Bordeaux
It’s such a lovely rich colour. So velvety
Oh you make it hard, but I might have to go with Florelie Whipped Cream, closely followed by Florelie Guava and Florelie Paradise.
It’s always hard to choose when there are so many lovely ones!
Whipped cream and Guava are favourites
They’re both such beauties!
They are all beautiful but I love Florelie Guava. The depth of colour in the center and the perfect watermelon colour petals…what’s not to love about this dahlia?
It really is a beautiful one.
They’re all stunning but I think whipped cream is my personal fav! Also love the look of paradise, guava and tutu 😍 can’t wait until orders open to make my first order from you guys. Last season was my first ever attempt to grow dahlias and I’m hooked.
Thanks so much Stephanie. Dahlias really are addictive!
These dahlias look amazing – they are all on my wish list!
Thanks Ella!
Lovely selection of newbies. My favourites are Florelie Tutu, Florelie Baroness, Florelie Guava, Florelie Paradise because I am looking for pink/cerise tones this year. I am also looking for the larger flower size (dinnerplate) as a preference but all these are delightful.
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The larger flower sizes certainly are impressive aren’t they!
Sunburst what a standout it just jumps off the page
It’s such a bright and cheerful one!
*Adds to wish list*
Tutu, whipped cream and cowrie
They’re such pretty ones Erin
Florelie Paradise is gorgeous 😍
I love the colour of that one too
They are all so gorgeous, but I think my favourite two are florelie guava and florelie paradise 💕
They’re great colours with current trends too!
Oh, how exciting to see these! I’m loving Sunburst, Cowrie, Paradise, Guave, Chyssie and Whipped Cream in particular, but they are all gorgeous.It must be an amazing feeling to release new varieties, Congratulations!
Thanks so much Sarah! It really is exciting to see which ones pass the 3 years of testing and be able to share them with others.
They are all beautiful Lorelie but my favourites would have to be Tutu and Paradise.
They really are gorgeous
I thinkI need them all!!!! Stunning xx
thanks so much Sally!
Love them all, but if I have to choose, Bordeaux, Whipped Cream, Paradise and Sunburst. During the floods here on the north coast your dahlias were the only ones to survive.
They are such beautiful ones. I’m sorry to hear you lost so many dahlias during the floods. That’s so interesting that the ones from us were the only ones to survive!
Hi Lorelie
Congratulations on such amazing dahlias. You are inspiring.
Would love to subscribe (I have in the past but have changed email addresses) to receive notifiication of your tuber sale.
best wishes
Anna
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Thanks Anna, I’ve sent you a message on Insta
Hi Lorelie,
I’m really curious to know how much difference you see over the 3 years trial period? Do the flowers change much in those early years?
Thanks!
Hi Lara, great question. Yes they do vary quite a bit actually. We would discard around 50% of plants in the second year, then a smaller percentage in the third year. Flowers can lose petals. It definitely takes a few years to stabilise a variety.
There are so many gorgeous colours. I have several that are pink and lemon, so this year I love the whiter ones – Whipped Cream and Cowrie. It was very, very, wet in my part of Sydney in February/March and I had to buy taller, stronger stakes for some dahlias, but others may have rotted, so will have to see what happens in Spring and Summer.
Oh I hope it isn’t as bad as you originally thought. It’s so sad losing favourite plants. The whites sure are beautiful and go so well with other colours!
Lorelie
Hello, I couldn’t see a link where to join the mailing/notification list. My email is below
Hi Katherine,
I’ve just added you to the mailing list. You should have a welcome email now 🙂