Dahlias as Cut Flowers

 Here I'm posting photos of many of the dahlias we grow every year as cut flowers.

As of late December we are finished digging and dividing the saved tubers. Planting will begin for us in March. In a home garden in the High Country you will want to wait until early May.

This coming year we hope to start cutting flowers as early as late June with the biggest flush remaining an August- October event.

Most of these are available as tubers at our store: https://www.shady-grove-gardens.com/store/c11/dahliatubers
All should be available during the growing season as cut flowers. Contact us for orders of bunches or buckets of flowers or all dahlias.

Foxy Lady

Midnight Moon

Gerrie Hoek

White Aster Dahlia

Uptown Girl

Cornell

Karma with lime zinnia

August Cut Flower List

Updated from 2016:
As the snow deepens into a full blown blizzard I'm working on my flower lists. I double checked all the bloom times and added the new flowers we grow. It's not nearly as fun as growing and arranging flowers but hopefully it will be of some help to those of you planning an event.

Here's the  August list with a few photos.

Name type		common name
Achillea	lilac, red	yarrow
Achillea	pearl	yarrow
Ageratum	blue	mist flower
Alstroemeria	gold	sweet Laura
Amaranthus	green upright
Amaranthus	red, gold burgundy upright
Ammi	white and burgundy tones	queen ann’s lace
Aster, china	blue, pinks, white
Bergamo	lambada	lemon mint, bee balm
Buddleia- Butterfly bush	blues and purples
Caryopteris	blues	blue mist
Celosia plume	reds, pinks, burgundy	plumose
Celosia plume	white	plumose
Celosia plume	purple and pink flamingo	plumose
Celosia, crested	persimmon	cockscomb
Celosia, crested	reds, pinks, burgundy	cockscomb
Celosia, crested	green	cockscomb
Celosia, crested	golden yellow	cockscomb
Chrysanthemum	shasta daisy	Finishing
Chrysanthemum	cream, bronze	heirloom mums just beginning
Chrysanthemum	yellow tansy	tansy
Clethra Hummingbird	white clethra	summer sweet
Clethra pink	rudy spice	summer sweet
Cosmos	double pink, white
Cosmos	single pink, white
Dahlia	cafe au lait	blush
Dahlia- medium decorative	white, pinks, purples, coral, orange, reds, yellow, peach, blush
Dahlia- medium decorative	burgundy
Dianthus Sweet	Pinks, 2-tone pink, white, peach, scarlet, purple	Most years
Dusty Miller	large leaf
Dusty Miller	fine leaf
Echinops	blue
Echinops	white
Eryngium Rattlesnake Master	silvery green blooms	thistle
Eucalyptus	various small leafed
Eupatorium	mauve  to silver grey	joe pye weed
Filenpendula	seed heads, brown	queen of the prairie
Geranium, scented	rose geranium	foliage
Gladiolus	purple, red, white, mix, lavender
Gomphrena	carmine, purple, red orange, white, soft pinks	globe amaranth
Grass	millet, northern sea oats, panicum, frosted explosion, fountain grass, wheat	various ornamental grasses
Helianthus perennial	gold daisy, lemon queen	perennial sunflower
Heliopsis	summer sun	perennial sunflower
Hydrangea arborescens	annabelle types	large white hydrangea
Hydrangea arborescens	pink and blush pink	smooth hydrangea
Hydrangea arborescens	green, antique	green hydrangea
Hydrangea P.G.	little lamb	snowball hydrangea
Hydrangea P.G.	conicals white to blush	pink diamond
Hydrangea P.G.	quick fire
Hydrangea P.G.	limelight -green	large hydrangea
Lavender	tall lavender	usually dried in August
Lisianthus	white, pinks, creams, champagne,	Texas rose,
Lonicera  red	red honeysuckle	native scarlet honeysuckle
Marigold	all colors	mum heads
Mountain Mint	silver and green native mint	2 varieties- foliage
Oregano	oreamental oregano	pink bloom, some white
Phlox	pink, white, purple
Physocarpus	dark chocolate, lime, mini wine, mini gold, amber	ninebark foliage
Rosemary		foliage
Rudbeckia	black eyed susan, henry eilers
Salvia	navy blue, medium blue, purple blue
Scabiosa	lavender blue, white, red, salmon, dk maroon	annual
Scabiosa	balckberry, dk raspberry, white, soft lavender	scoop extra large
Sedum	green flower heads
Snapdragon	white, pastels shades, yellow, dk pink, red, light pink, tangerine
Snowberry= Symphoricarpus	white, pink, green	snowberry
Solidago	fireworks and stiff leaf	goldenrod filler yellow
Stachys/lambs' ears	large leaf
Sunflower	dbl, standard gold, lemon, whites	dark center & green center
Tansy	yellow
Thuja foliage		white cedar
Viburnum	blue muffin, red american cranberry	berries
Viburnum	cardinal candy	berries
Viburnum	soft peach berries	berries
Zinnia double	red, orange, salmon, pinks, purple, white, wine
Zinnia double	Queen series
Zinnia scabiosa type	mini bright color mix, white and salmon