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Camano Zoe
Bred by Richard Ambrose in 2009, Camano Zoe is a blush miniature ball dahlia, blooms 2 to 3.5 inches on plants 48 to 66 inches tall.
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.
More blush & cream dahlias- Hybridizer
- Richard Ambrose
- Introduced
- 2009
- Form
- Miniature Ball
- ADS size
- MB (Miniature ball, 2 to 3.5 inches)
- Bloom
- 2 to 3.5 inches
- Height
- 48 to 66 inches
Why people hunt it
Richard Ambrose introduced Camano Zoe in 2009, and the ADS classifies it 6104. The Camano prefix points at Camano Island in Washington's Puget Sound, the same stretch of the Pacific Northwest that produced a large share of the American dahlia catalog. The variety sits in the quietly useful category rather than the famous one. It has no viral photograph behind it and no scarcity story, just a pale ball flower that keeps turning up in the catalogs of farms who grow for florists, which is usually the more reliable signal of the two.
Growing notes, including the hard parts
Camano Zoe is a small blush ball, 2 to 3.5 inches, and small balls are the workhorses of bouquet making because they hold their shape and their color longer than big soft decoratives do. Height is the field where sources scatter badly, from 4 feet at Connell's to 5.5 feet in Idlewild's own field, with Heirloom Soul at 48 to 60 inches and Sunset View contradicting itself between 4 and 5 feet on one page, so plan for a tall plant and stake it. Pinch at 12 inches and space at a foot. Ball dahlias reward disbudding less than decoratives do, so leave the side buds and take the stem count instead. The blush is pale enough to work as a neutral, which is exactly why wedding growers keep it.
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