Dahlia 'Purple Haze'

Watch with excitement as the unusual blooms of Dahlia 'Purple Haze' slowly unfurl. This beautiful new introduction is an anemone-flowered dahlia featuring wonderfully rich pink and burgundy tones. It produces masses of flowers over a long season; from afar it appears to be a deep plum shade, but take a closer looks and you’ll see that each elongated petal curls inwards, showing the reddish underside of the petal at the front of the flower, contrasting with the magenta upper side of the petals. Dahlia 'Purple Haze' is a plant where the flowers and foliage work really well together, with the rich tones of the flowers offset beautifully by large dark leaves. This intensity of colour captures the essence of the summer and early autumn garden, glowing in the softer light of the late season and chiming beautifully with the autumn’s rich, mellow atmosphere.  

Dahlia 'Purple Haze' is neat and compact, at a height of around 80cm, making a good option for both the border and for containers. Try combining this with other rich-toned dahlias like 'Totally Tangerine' and perennials like Verbena bonariensis or purple-flowered Salvia 'Caradonna' for a sumptuous display. 'Purple Haze' is also a great dahlia for cutting: those anemone flowers with their flattened outer petals and dense centres create lovely contrasts with other dahlia flower-shapes, such as the spiky cactus dahlias, orchid dahlias and of course the big dinnerplate dahlias.