Miss Amara

Form: Formal Decorative (FD)

Size: BB

Color: Warm peach and buttery yellow outer petals blending into a rich raspberry-rose center

Bloom size: ~4–6 inches

Plant height: 3–5 feet

Miss Amara is the dahlia that saunters into the garden like she owns the joint — a sun-kissed queen wearing the color palette of a late-August sunset that decided to get a little flirtatious. Her petals unfurl in buttery spirals, like someone whispered a soft secret to the dawn and the dawn blushed back. She doesn’t shout; she glows. And if you catch her at the right angle, with the pines behind her and the sky doing one of its cosmic Nevada City mood swings, she gives off the distinct impression she’s been staring at the moon like it owed her money.