Dahlias - 2026 Wishlist

Each year in late winter, flower farms fill their websites with rows upon rows of colorful blooms and set a date to open up their online shops to sell the tubers produced by their dahlias the year before. This sale date is often highly anticipated and marked on the calendars of countless home gardeners, like myself, in hopes of adding all the varieties on their wishlist to their gardens in the coming months. With hundreds of people counting down the minutes to click "add to cart", its not uncommon for some varieties to sell out in a matter of minutes. Adding even more excitement to the experience of buying new dahlias for your collection, especially if you're able to beat the rush and secure some of the unique varieties on your list.

I look forward to shopping the dahlia tuber sales every year to help brighten the cold winter days and provide inspiration for the coming growing season. As we are coming up on the first sales of the 2026 growing season, I thought it would be fun to share some of the dahlia varieties that I have been swooning over!

Farm Abbreviation Key:

The Farmhouse Flower Farm - FH

Sunny Meadows Flower Farm - SM

Russells Mills Flower Company - RS

Petal Back Farm - PB

1 - Belle of Barmera - FH

Plant Height: 3’-4’

Bloom Size: 10”

2 - Alpen Sundown - FH

Plant Height: 3.5’

Bloom Size: 3.5”

3 - Bloomquist Sue - FH

Plant Height: 5’

Bloom Size: 4”

4 - Brown Sugar - PB

Plant Height: 4’-5’

Bloom Size: 3.5”

5 - Irish D Porter - FH

Plant Height: 4.5’

Bloom Size: 1.5”

6 - Jowey Linda - PB

Plant Height: 4.5’

Bloom Size: 4”

7 - Small World - SM

Plant Height: 3.5’

Bloom Size: 1.5”

8 - Jowey Mirella - FH

Plant Height: 4’

Bloom Size: 3.5”

9 - Karma Choc - PB

Plant Height: 4’

Bloom Size: 4”

10 - Cut Garden Collection - RM

A mix of 5 mystery tubers at a great price to help build out your collection if you don't mind having a few unknown tubers.

For a list of dahlia resources, including my favorite farms to buy tubers from, head to my post called "Dahlias - Resources" where I provide links to my favorite flower farms.