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Ball dahlias
Fully double, globe shaped blooms over 3.5 inches with blunt or rounded ray florets, rolled inward for about half their length and set in a precise spiral.
Profiled ball varieties
Jowey Mirella
Deep burgundy that shades toward black at the center. DutchGrown bills it as the darkest burgundy among ball dahlias, and in low light the blooms read like merlot velvet.
Cornel
True lipstick red, a clear scarlet with a slightly darker center.
Jowey Winnie
Dusty rose to dark pink with a muted bronze hue and an amethyst undertone.
Brown Sugar
Deep rusty copper, a red-brown with an orange glow that vendors reach for words like burnt sienna to describe. Fleur Farm notes perfectly cupped rusty petals.
Linda's Baby
Pink layered with strawberry and orange sherbet tones, sitting between true pink and coral.
Genova
Soft lilac lavender with petals that look dipped in darker plum toward a deeper pink center. The two-tone effect is subtle up close and unmistakable across a field.
Cornel Bronze
Muted bronze, recorded under ADS color code BR3. A soft metallic shade that designers use where red or orange would be too loud.
Crichton Honey
Classed bronze, in the garden it reads warm apricot and peachy bronze. One farm describes its stock as cream to pale pink, a minority report worth noting.
Jomanda
Rusty red-orange, a saturated burnt sienna that deepens as nights cool, carried on notably dark stems that flatter the bloom color in arrangements.
Maarn
Honey apricot deepening to tangerine orange, a saturated warm tone.
Snoho Doris
A dark blend that varies bloom to bloom. Idlewild describes citrine yellow and strawberry red, koi-like, while Floret sees coral, peach, and apricot.
Ivanetti
Rich, deep burgundy-purple berry tones in a tight, symmetrical ball. Officially it sits in the purple class.
Foxy Lady
The Swan Island plant is an ombre of burgundy through pink, raspberry, and peach to yellow. Other cultivars sold under this name are dusty mauve or magenta with white tips, so confirm the plant before trusting photos.
Clearview Daniel
A clear yellow on a precise ball, a tidy globe that lasts and lasts in the vase.
Coseytown Birthday Girl
Pink with a peachy blush flair, shifting from soft neutral peach to pink with occasional red-pink accents. The color drifts bloom to bloom, giving a single stem a range of soft tones.