"...is a Cafe au Lait seedling." When Cafe au Lait was bred in the 1960s(long before we ever grew a dahlia) it was released from Holland to the USA. Nick Gitts told me that he grew it when it first became available in the 1970s and he evaluated it as a cut flower. He grew it only that first year as it failed to impress him. For many years, it was a non entity until Martha Stewart declared it to be an ideal wedding flower. It's color is rare and that is about the only thing going for it. Another commercial grower tried to sell it as a cut flower but despite growing about 100 plants of it, he was unable to deliver but a few flowers to the flower market and gave up on cut flower sales. However, it was a good tuber maker and with the Martha Stewart frenzy , he made lots of money selling tubers . The story goes on and on but in my opinion it is a very poor breeding prospect.
