Here are a couple of rave reviews for two of our most popular dahlias:

“‘Prince Noir’ was absolutely brilliant,” our good customer Connie Casey of Old Chatham, NY, wrote us a while back. “Many, many huge wine-red flowers from late July till the end of October. It (he?) was next to our outdoor shower, set off spectacularly by two vines in back – hops and a red and orange honeysuckle. Whenever we were invited to dinner I brought a bouquet of mahogany sunflowers, red snapdragons, maroon sneezeweed, pink cosmos, and ‘Prince Noir’.”

“‘Old Gold’ is absolutely, stunningly glorious!” our good customer Sejean Sohn of Bethlehem, PA, wrote. ”It really does appear to flicker with light. I’m growing over 70 different dahlias this year from several specialty sources, but OHG’s ‘Old Gold’, ‘Prince Noir’, and ‘Jane Cowl’ are truly exceptional.”

‘Madame Stappers’

‘Old Gold’

‘Sellwood Glory’

Our experience with the Historical Iris Preservation Society last year as they collected varieties lost in Holland but still grown in American gardens inspired us to check our own lists of varieties we can no longer find. Sometimes a small-scale grower retires unexpectedly due to illness; sometimes varieties are lost due to unlucky weather events (last spring our New Hampshire friends had their fields flooded late into planting season, resulting in poor harvests in the fall), or there may be an issue with storage conditions over the winter. We’d like to resurrect some of these “lost treasures” and spread them to more gardens before they’re gone forever, so If you have any of these varieties to share, please let us know. We - and the dahlia lovers who have been wishing for their return - will be thrilled.