ADS form MB
Miniature Ball dahlias
Ball form at 2 to 3.5 inches across. Prolific, long lasting, and beloved by flower farmers for bunching.
Profiled miniature ball varieties
Caitlin's Joy
ADS dark blend: Idlewild Blooms describes raspberry pink with a darker plum-tinged center and a slightly glowing golden heart. The raspberry carries across a market table from thirty feet.
Valley Rust Bucket
Classed bronze: an amber two-tone with orange petals over a strawberry-red reverse, so the ball shifts color with viewing angle.
Camano Zoe
The palest blush, closer to ivory and buttercream than to any decided pink, and Heirloom Soul notes it shifts with the season. The ADS registers it under the pink color class, chip PK2, and Connell's files it as white and pink, which together describe a flower sitting right on the line between blush and cream. Filed here under blush and cream because that is where it reads in a bouquet.
Chimacum Troy
Wine red rather than anything most people would call purple. Idlewild calls it a nice burgundy merlot, Floret the color of red wine, and Heirloom Soul burgundy wine and dark and moody. The ADS files it under the purple color class, chip PR28, which is the registry's nearest bin rather than a description; filed here under burgundy and black, where the flower actually reads.
Creamy
The ADS files it as yellow, but nobody who grows it describes it that way without hedging. Idlewild calls it a pale yellow that really is closer to ivory, Floret the color of fresh cream, Sunset View pale buttercream, and Heirloom Soul buttercream ivory. Triple Wren is the only one to say plainly soft yellow. Read it as the palest yellow that still counts as yellow, which is exactly what the name promises.