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Bracken Sarah
A soft peach-apricot blend, the gentler sister to Bracken Palomino in the same warm family.
More peach & apricot dahlias- Hybridizer
- not yet verified
- Introduced
- not yet verified
- ADS size
- BB (Small, over 4 and up to 6 inch blooms)
- Bloom
- 4 to 6 inches
- Height
- not yet verified
- Bloom season
- late season
Why people hunt it
Bracken Sarah rides alongside Bracken Palomino as the gentler half of a popular peach pairing. Trademarks Flower Farm singled it out as a backyard-gardener pick for 2025, the kind of endorsement that sends a variety into a lot of first-time beds. Both flowers carry the Bracken prefix, associated with New Zealand breeding, but neither hybridizer nor year is confirmed in our sources. Plant Sarah for steady soft peach and Palomino for the color that moves; together they give a warm range from a small footprint.
Growing notes, including the hard parts
Bracken Sarah is a small formal decorative in peach-apricot, a tidy four to six inch bloom for bouquet work. It earned Trademarks Flower Farm's backyard-gardener pick for 2025, which is a useful signal: a flower an experienced grower recommends to beginners is usually forgiving. Standard care applies, pinch and stake. It sold out at Three Acre Farm. It is the companion to Bracken Palomino, similar warmth but a softer, less shifting color, so the honest tradeoff is that Sarah is the calmer of the pair where Palomino does the color-shifting party trick. Hybridizer and year stay open.
Sold out? Closest alternatives
No substitute is exact, and we say so in each profile. These are the varieties growers reach for when Bracken Sarah is gone.
Sources and references
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