While you won't find this beauty in any formal listing, I love this wispy girl in floral arrangements. She is ideal for those wanting to create wispy, whimsical arrangements with her long graceful stems. Sear stems for longer lasting blooms.
 
 
If anyone knows a name for this lovely lady, please pass it on. Otherwise, here's the story from the grower I obtained her from, Allyn Arnold. I hope you love it as much as I do. 
 
Wayne’s Pink dahlia is named after my father-in-law, Wayne Arnold. We have no idea what its real name is or where it originally came from. Wayne and his family moved to Bremerton in 1945. He was a WWII veteran, who loved having a garden and raising flowers, especially roses and dahlias. He came of this love early on, while working in his grandfather’s garden in South Dakota, where he was also from. While we don’t know where Wayne originally got this dahlia, we do know it has been in the family garden for at least 50 years, over three generations. Wayne loved pink, and this dahlia was tenacious! Throughout the years it had many different spots in the garden, depending on what vegetables were to be grown that year. It would get dug up (he would think completely) with the thought of moving it. Some years, made it back into the ground, some years it would send 3 or 4 foot shoots out of the storage box in the root cellar—never to make it back into the ground. However, every year one would shoot up from a random spot in the vegetable garden and thus continue to survive and thrive. It became a family joke when we would see it sprout up from the corn patch or the potato patch, etc. We would laugh and say “there’s Wayne’s pink”! He loved sharing his dahlias with friends, neighbors and family—he was my mentor and got me into growing dahlias also. As he grew older and could no longer dig and care for his dahlias, I would do it for him, which he “supervised” sitting on his walker seat. I always remember him saying, “you’re doing such a great job—oh, that’s wonderful!!”.... LOL…I’m pretty sure he said that to everyone…..he was such a kind and wonderful person! Wayne passed away at 92, but his sons, daughters, grandchildren, nieces and nephews all have Wayne’s Pink and think of him every year when it returns.
 
Class: N/A
Size: 48"
Form: Orchette
Color: Pink, white and yellow