I like Barbie Pink. I could use some more of that color in my garden.
I am liking Salish August a lot. I have it in a bouquet by my table as I write and it has been picked now for 3 days. The temperature in this room has been up to 95 degrees during the afternoon...and yet Salish August is still looking fresh, with many petals yet to open.. Petals are a good yellow gold with a reddish orange rim that makes for red shading toward the center. Another Salish with long strong stems.
This one I am enjoyinfgvery much also. It is smaller , maybe 3.5" but with the same nice long stems. It started out all rose and gold shades but it is turning to yellow and salmon as it opens. The backs of the still losed center petals are lavender.
calico20hill Noni, Salish August is a great Fall color. I love that form, it looks like one of the parents could be Valley Porcupine.
Spot of gold on the tips. Is that a clue?
Teddahlia
I have had niether Valley Porcupine or Skipley Spot of Gold in my garden for years. But maybe it is in the ancestry of some of the ones I do have. I Have had several seedlings with the gold tips and I love them!
Cosey The Coseytown Garden® series. Verwer has introduced quite a few over the years that might come close but I've never grown any of them so I don't know how they perform.
http://www.verwer-dahlias.nl/gallery_collectie_en.html
Margaret likes this HH Black Beauty seedling from 2020.
Noni likes this one too and wants to grow it in her garden!
calico20hill Salish August looks amazingly well for having been in my house for 3 days with temps around 90 degrees. Petals on the back are a little crispy but the center still holds and the color is still nice.
calico20hill Salish Rose Gold is another one that is holding up well to being put in a bouquet in our" not air conditioned "house with daytime temps around 90 degrees. After 3 days the center is still holding and the back petals are a bit limp but overall it is amazingly nice. The colors are a bit more toward the gold.
Impossible to capture the exact color tones. the gold is a bit more dominant then this photo shows. Center still tight. It looks like it had been sprayed with metalic gold pain. back petals are getting soft but not yet shriveled.
Salish Metallica
calico20hill ooh! I love that one!
SteveM I haven't grown any of the Gallery dahlias either. I went to the PSU flower trial field day to see what container varieties were entering the market and how they looked. I also wanted to see what conditions the dahlias were being grown in and what criteria they were being judged against. I may set up a similar set up on my property to see how my "garden" seedlings do. All the dahlias in the trial are grown in pots. 3 to a pot. In full sun on black plastic. The dahlias on display were stunted and ridden with fungal disease. I doubt they were getting enough water and I'm not sure if they were getting any fungicide treatment.
I don't think my varieties will do well that crowded in the size pots used. I'll need to experiment on farm before I decide to enter any in the trials.
calico20hill love this one! Same name as my kiddo and orange is his favorite color 
Ad Verwer is the Dutch breeder behind several series of bedding dahlias. He now has a contract with Syngenta for them to sell the patented varieties. Back when the internet was just starting up some dahlia people communicated and he participated at times. Dan Pearson of Dan's Dahlias used to grow his varieties for cut flowers but of course he cannot sell the patented tubers. I wish I could remember the name of the one he really liked.
Teddahlia I wish I could remember the name of the one he really liked.
Likely one of the "Karma" series, maybe Karma Chocolate or Karma Prospero. Karma Prospero was a very nice pink WL with dark stems but shattered badly when sleeved. There are better cut dahlias in every form and color than the Karma series provides but there are also a lot of expensive dahlias that are not as good of cut dahlias as those in the Karma series. Most of the commercial cut flower growers here grow the Karma dahlias. Many of the newer growers are now growing some of the recent popular non-Karma varieties.
