Buffalo, New York
Heirloom Soul Florals
- Sales open
- The 2026 tuber sale has closed; the shop reopens Spring 2027 (2026-27 season)
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- Not yet confirmed
- How they sell
- Individual tubers, bulk five-packs, and dahlia tuber gift boxes
- Stock
- Field grown on the farm
Small family flower farm and sustainable wedding florist in Buffalo, New York, growing dahlia tubers with organic, regenerative practices. Farmer-florist Fran Parrish wrote Growing Gorgeous Dahlias.
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Profiled varieties they carry
Cafe au Lait
Creamy blush that shifts through ivory, champagne, peach, and dusty rose, often varying bloom to bloom. Farms note that no two flowers are quite alike.
Castle Drive
A light blend in soft sherbet peach. Coseytown and Idlewild note it carries less yellow than the varieties it gets confused with.
Jowey Winnie
Dusty rose to dark pink with a muted bronze hue and an amethyst undertone.
Linda's Baby
Pink layered with strawberry and orange sherbet tones, sitting between true pink and coral.
Cornel
True lipstick red, a clear scarlet with a slightly darker center.
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.
Sweet Nathalie
A light blend in champagne and bisque, a soft neutral that shows more blush early in the season.
Penhill Dark Monarch
Descriptions vary by source: the registry says bicolored purple and yellow, Triple Wren sees a raspberry-to-plum ombre, and the RHS describes swirling peach and dark pink. Expect a shifting dark blend rather than one fixed color.
Maarn
Honey apricot deepening to tangerine orange, a saturated warm tone.
Ivanetti
Rich, deep burgundy-purple berry tones in a tight, symmetrical ball. Officially it sits in the purple class.
Koko Puff
Smoky mauve. Idlewild Blooms calls it a stunning dusty rose pompon that looks more lavender in some weather, and that indecision between rose and lavender is the entire appeal.
Diva
ADS color class purple. Vendors describe deep burgundy-plum petals with an iridescent purple sheen that shifts in the light, darker and moodier than the typical purple decorative.
Salmon Runner
Clear coral salmon, sometimes described as smoky coral-raspberry, with petal edges and tips slightly lighter than the body. The dark stems frame the color beautifully.
Gitts Crazy
A swirling dark blend of golden bronze with a rosy-purple reverse, so the bloom reads differently as the petals catch light. The Cincinnati Dahlia Society classes it B ST DB, a medium stellar.
Hollyhill Black Beauty
A deep black-red, about as dark as the genus goes, on a small informal decorative.
Blizzard
Pure white, ADS color class W, with the clean petal geometry of a formal decorative. No cream cast, no blush, which is precisely what designers buying white want to hear.
Cafe au Lait Royal
A blush and white base streaked and tipped with magenta and purple for a tie dye effect. The RHS describes it as white overlaid with light purple blush and purple stripes.
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.
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.
Kelvin Floodlight
Bright clear yellow on a giant formal decorative, ADS class AA FD, big enough to read across a garden.
Wizard of Oz
Pale powder pink, deeper at the heart of each bloom. My Dahlia Society describes soft pink centers with petals lightening almost to white toward the edges.
Chimacum Katie
Saturated hot pink, closer to bubblegum than to rose, and it holds that intensity rather than fading through the season. The ADS files it under the lavender color class, chip LV10, which catches people out. Every grower who describes the flower, including Idlewild in the same breath as its own lavender classification, calls it bold, bright, and pink. Read the class as registry bookkeeping, not as a description of what lands in the vase.
Vassio Meggos
Deep lilac purple that reads plum in flat light and closer to amethyst in sun. Growers reach for different words on the same flower: Swan Island calls it lavender pink, Floret pale plum, Idlewild amethyst, and Heirloom Soul deep lilac purple. The ADS files it as lavender, color chip LV10.
Miss Amara
A light blend that travels through the season rather than holding one note. Heirloom Soul tracks it from soft yellows and buttercreams tinged with pink early to sweet peach later; Sunset View reads peach and blush, Floret peachy yellow. The ADS color class is Light Blend, which for once matches what growers actually see.
Strawberry Cream
Cream and strawberry pink laid on in stripes and brushmarks that shift bloom to bloom, sometimes on the same stem. Sunset View warns that like many bicolors it will occasionally throw flowers carrying varying mixes of its two colors on one plant, so a bunch cut on a single morning will not necessarily match itself. Whether that is the charm or the problem depends on whether you are arranging or filling an order.
Omega
Smoky coral shot through with peach, apricot and gold, iridescent enough that it reads differently at different hours. Floret calls the coloring versatile, which is catalog language for hard to pin down. Triple Wren counts peach, coral and gold highlights; Heirloom Soul sees pink coral with a peachy gold glow radiating from the center.
Peaches-N-Cream
A light blend of peach and cream, with streaks and brushmarks of each color varying bloom to bloom. No two flowers stripe quite the same way, which is most of the charm.
Black Satin
Deep black red with maroon under it, and one of the darkest things most growers will have in the field. Swan Island calls it a deep black red in a much sought after color; Heirloom Soul calls it the darkest black dahlia in their field. Sellers file it variously as red, dark red and maroon, which is the usual disagreement about where a very dark red stops being red.
Bocherell
Apricot warmed with lemon yellow, and the two colors sit in the same bloom rather than in separate flowers. Breck's reads it as apricot with a hint of lemon yellow at the top; Heirloom Soul as lemon yellow moving to apricot; Pacific Floral simply as apricot and yellow. Dancing the Land adds melon to the list, which is a fair description of where the two meet.
Brookside Snowball
Pure white without a cream or green cast, which is harder to breed than it sounds and is most of why this one has lasted. Heirloom Soul notes the centers open to reveal rich yellow pollen, so the flower reads white with a warm eye rather than flat white.
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.
Copper Boy
A dark blend running rust red through burnt orange, with chocolate at the center. Idlewild reads it as moody velvety copper, Sunset View as deeply saturated rust red, DutchGrown as burnt orange red with a hint of chocolate at the center, and Heirloom Soul simply as deep bronze. The ADS files it as a dark blend, which is the right call: it is not one color.
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.
Cryfield Harmony
Deep magenta leaning purple, saturated rather than soft. The ADS files it under the purple color class, chip PR26, and Heirloom Soul calls it deep magenta, which is the same flower described from the pink side of the boundary.
Isabel
This one changes, and every source says so in different words. Idlewild sees lilac with flashes of tangerine orange and notes every bloom is different; Fivefork calls it a dusty lavender rose and mauve with bronzy undertones, not quite purple but not pink either; Summer Dreams describes chameleon lavender with deep dusty rose toward the center and says it can throw anything from mauve rose to salmon; Heirloom Soul reads it as deep pink purple. The ADS files it as lavender. Treat that as the center of a moving target rather than a promise.
Natalie G
A light blend of peach and pink that different growers see from different angles. Floret describes melon pink rounded blooms with a light lavender dusting, Sunset View a blush pink, Summer Dreams soft peach, and Heirloom Soul deep apricot pink. The ADS color class recorded by Micro Flower Farm is Light Blend, which is the registry's way of saying the same thing.
Nicholas
The ADS files it as orange, chip OR4, and Swan Island and Sunset View both record orange in their spec fields. Every description of the actual flower reaches for peach instead: Heirloom Soul calls it sunset peach tones, Sunset View peachy, Triple Wren warm. Filed here under peach and apricot because that is where a buyer would look for it, with the registered orange class noted.
Pooh
Bright orange outer petals outlined and tipped in yellow, around a yellow collar and a yellow central disc. Swan Island files the color as orange; British sellers read the same flower as red and yellow, and Heirloom Soul as bright yellow and red. The yellow tipping varies bloom to bloom, which is most of why the descriptions differ.
Rock Star
Dark wine red petals around a raised pincushion center, with a little silver showing on the very tips. Sources reach for the whole dark red vocabulary: Swan Island files it as red and pink, Sunset View as dark red, Floret as deep cranberry, Fivefork as dark scarlet with a garnet center flecked gold, and Heirloom Soul as raspberry with a deeper black center.
Ryecroft Jan
Clean white with no yellow in it. Summer Dreams reads it as ivory white and Three Sprouts specifies crisp ivory with no yellow undertones, which is the distinction that matters in a white dahlia, since many of them run cream or green at the center.
Sierra Glow
Deep coral shading to bronze, and it changes with the light the way most of the good warm blends do. The ADS files it under bronze; Heirloom Soul reads it as deep vibrant coral bronze. Big blooms in this range read warmer at a distance than they do in the hand.
Sweet Love
Cotton candy pink fading toward white away from the petal tips, over a creamy golden center. Rich Hollow sees lavender in it as well as pink, Sunset View reads it as pink tinged with white, Pig & Leaf as pale pink with creamy centers, and Heirloom Soul as soft pinky lavender. The pink is soft rather than saturated in every account.
Tangerine Dream
Orange petals tipped and striped with white, over a rose pink reverse that shows as the petals curl. Valhaven records the reverse explicitly. The balance shifts through the season: Pure Indulgence reports it moving from orange and white to golden and white, and Heirloom Soul describes it the other way round, as white with a dark orange stripe. Other sellers call the orange rusty, which is the same flower later in its run.
White Perfection
Pure white with a light yellow center, recorded by Ball Seed. At dinnerplate scale a clean white is difficult to breed, since most large whites go cream or show green at the crown, and the absence of any source mentioning a cast is itself informative.
Wyoming Wedding
A vivid jewel pink, bright rather than soft, and Heirloom Soul calls it one of the brightest things in their field. Idlewild describes wavy fuchsia petals and notes that it sometimes carries a touch of bright gold on the petal tips. The ADS files it as dark pink, chip DP19.