Dahlia 'Touche'

American Dahlia Society Classification (AKA - flower nerd talk)

Class: 1114 | Form: ID | Size: A | Color: V | Color Description: DR5/BR8

If you want a dahlia that gets going early and never lets up, ‘Touche’ is your girl. This semi-cactus dahlia throws wave after wave of 4" blooms in peachy-salmon tones, with a soft lavender blush on the backs of the petals that gives it a unique, dimensional color in the garden and in the vase.

Plants reach about 3½ feet tall, making ‘Touche’ a great fit for the front or middle of a flower bed, dahlia garden, or cottage-style planting. It’s an early bloomer (around 75 days) and is known for being a heavy producer—the kind of plant that looks completely covered in flowers at peak season.

With strong, usable stems and a bloom size that plays nicely with other flowers, ‘Touche’ fits right into a cut flower garden or small flower farm planting. It pairs beautifully with creams, soft oranges, apricots, and dusty mauves in bouquets.

If you’re shopping dahlia tubers for a productive, easy-to-love variety that pulls its weight all summer, this one belongs on your list of dahlias for sale to snag early.

Farmer Notes

• Truly early to bloom, which is gold in a dahlia garden.

• One of those varieties that looks like the plant is wearing a flower coat—blooms everywhere.

• Great size for mixed beds: tall enough to cut from, short enough not to flop over everything.

• Color reads peach to salmon with hints of lavender on the petal backs—very pretty in cottage garden plantings and mixed bouquets.

• Excellent “starter” dahlia for newer growers who want something reliable and generous.

Details

• Form: Semi-Cactus

• Bloom Size: ~4"

• Plant Height: ~3½ ft

• Bloom Time: Early (approx. 75 days)

• Color: Peach to salmon with a lavender blush

• Use: Cut flower garden, bouquets, cottage garden borders, dahlia garden

• Year Introduced: 1994