This beautiful dahlia is definitely 'girlie'. She opens a darker shade of salmon and then lightens into this two-tone pinky-peach with a pale yellow centre. This heirloom dahlia is classified M-SC-PK. The 'M' must be a mistake because this is not a miniature - it's 5" across. SC stands for semi-cactus and PK is for pink. When it first opens the petals are flatter but then curl back as it ages. It's sprawled across the garden since Hurricane Earl struck but would be about 3' tall if upright.
I looked up 'Preference' on the American Dahlia Society handbook pages and it is an heirloom miniature. M is up to 4", B is over 6 to 8" and BB is over 4 to 6". Although it was originally classed as B, it is now M. I think with heirloom varieties, classifications were changed as new classes were added. At 5", I wonder if this is 'Preference' at all but I can't find anything BB on Sid's site that it could be. It sure looks like 'Preference'
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