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One of my favorites is Fool's Gold, a bold B-size informal decorative that shades from golden yellow to golden orange in each flower (I'll put up with the occasional white petal that gives it its name). My plants are looking a little mottled in the leaves & less vigorous than they were, so I am looking for new stock. I am ordering some from Jan's, the only one listed on the Big List as carrying it, but I am looking around for alternate possibilities.
There are a lot of yellow dahlias out there, but few golden-yellow ones. Here are a few that I know of. I wish they had the range of shades in each flower that gives Fool's Gold its depth and character.
Encore, the all-gold version of Show-N-Tell
Sassafrass, the all-gold sport of Cheyenne
Glencoe Gold, a newer B-size golden-orange that Verrone's is selling this year. I saw it and liked it at a couple of shows, where it was a real contrast to the yellow laciniates, like the one in the background.
Andrew Charles, a BB that makes a great cut flower. I grow it, but it isn't big enough to have the punch I am looking for.
Swan Island has one called Honeymoon that I am going to try, since it is an A-size. One of the reviews on the Swan Island site says it is varied in color and is yellow with orange tones, which sounds like what I am looking for, but the Swan Island listing says it is soft orange, so we'll see. I don't remember seeing it in the fields, which means either it wasn't there or it didn't make much of an impression on me.
Linna was a stingy bloomer for me this year, but I might give it a second chance in my garden because of the stunning blooms in golden tones. Probably too deep for a good waterlily show flower.
Looking forward to a chance to grow Rancho and Monets Glory
For dahlia breeders, the color of Country Sweethart is the result of two pigments. The base yellow is covered lightly by the red pigment and since there is very little red, the color looks orange. If the base color were white, the overlaying red pigment would be pink.
We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden.
Fascinating stuff . I liked that the blooms came on in different shades from light golden orange to a soft peach , great little garden variety with lots of lasting cuttable blooms , the stems on ours were a bit rubbery but that could very well have been my bad .
Linda, if you haven't ordered Honeymoon yet, I have tubers I can share. I have grown if for several years. I Like it but its not going to make the final cut this time for me. It is quite a nice flower but not an exciting one and I found I was not using it much in my bouquets. I liked the looks of Andrew Charles but it was bruising badly when I transported them to market, so I eliminated it last year. I think the one I settled on for these tones is Nicholas. That deep burgundy red down in the base gives the oranges and golds a visual depth that makes it pop for me, and it holds up nicely for transportation to the market. Wyn's Sensation. Have you tried this one? Sure makes a lot of Golden ORange blooms! I have extra tubers of it also.
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Noni, if your Wyn's Sensation stays closed-centered like the photo, I'd love one. The only closed bloom I got on mine last year was the first one...after that they all went open. Such a lovely color too!
Em in NY Dahlias -- the gift that keeps on giving!
One of my top summer cut flowers. Woodland's Wildthing is always covered in flowers and they are nice from the beginning of the season to the end. The colors stay nice no matter what weather. It was still going strong at the end of the season when I cut them down.
Interesting... Mine were great early on, then got really weak-stemmed and open centered the last month of blooms. They were still lovely, but frustrating.
What do people think about Woodlands Wildthing vs Dr John Kaiser? They look so much alike to me, or at least each comes in variations that look like the other. Somehow WW is classified as orange, while DJK is a flame.
Since Dr John Kaiser is a seedling of WW, they are similar. WW is bigger and has brighter colors. Dr John Kaiser does well in shows and is a very pretty flower too.
We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden.
WW is a SC B, and normally grows to size for me on a very tall unstable plant.
DJK is actually classified as an ID, B, though normally it looks like a SC to me, and normally doesn't even get close to a B size...
DJK grows around four feet for me, with a well-proportioned plant and very good stems that need disbudded to bring the bloom out of the leaves
I've found that DJK changes through the season, more so then WW, and there is no 'bad' phase during these shifts...
Early-season
Mid-season
Late season
Comparing side-by-side
If I were to choose one of the two to grow, it would be DJK hands-down, for more vivid coloration, smaller (and more usable) blooms and better stems with a more contained plant.
If I were to choose one of the two to grow, it would be DJK hands-down, for more vivid coloration, smaller (and more usable) blooms and better stems with a more contained plant.
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Wyn's Sensation. Have you tried this one? Sure makes a lot of Golden ORange blooms! I have extra tubers of it also.
