27 of the Best Dahlia Varieties for Your Garden

27 of the Best Dahlia Varieties for Your Garden

With 15 gorgeous flower forms, a brilliant range of colors, and flower sizes ranging from petite pompoms to massive dinnerplates, dahlias provide an outstanding floral display in the late summer garden!

These easily cultivated, tender perennials are often grown as annuals and suit most sunny garden settings, where they make an outstanding border plant or feature massed into groups for knockout focal points.

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Fast growing, many varieties have a tall profile that’s well-suited for adding color to the back of beds. But there are also plenty of cultivars with a compact size that make fantastic container plants.

And with a long vase life, they’re a must-have for cut flower arrangements!

Gorgeous, versatile, and highly floriferous, are you ready for a superb late summer display? Then let’s jump into 27 of the best dahlia varieties for your garden and yard!

Here’s what’s covered ahead:

Dahlias are among the most versatile flowering plants with a staggering range of flower colors, forms, and sizes.

If you need help figuring out what types would work best in your garden, be sure to check out our guide to dahlia classification. It has the lowdown on the many beautiful varieties.

And this dahlia growing guide has all the steps you’ll need to create a magnificent floral display.

With thousands and thousands of cultivars available, your selection is almost unlimited… We’re not going to try and list them all here, but the sampling below is a good place to start!

Let’s have a look.

Uniquely charming, ‘Alfred Grille’ is a spiky