Wizard of Lightening

Wizard of Lightning is a beautiful, free-flowering ball dahlia with an effortlessly romantic colour palette. Its perfectly rounded blooms open creamy white, delicately flushed with soft blush pink before developing into a gorgeous antique-toned finish as they mature. With strong stems and an abundance of blooms, this is a wonderful choice for both the garden and the cutting patch.

Key Features

• Flower Type: Ball dahlia

• Flower Size: Approximately 8–10 cm (3–4 inches)

• Colour: Creamy white with a delicate soft blush pink flush that develops into an antique tone as the blooms mature

• Plant Height: 80–140 cm

• Foliage: Lush green

• Stems: Strong and sturdy, making it an excellent cut flower

• Flowering: Mid-summer through to autumn / frost

• Fragrance: None

• Best For: Cutting, bouquets, garden borders and feature planting

Planting & Care

Plant your Wizard of Lightning tubers in a sunny, sheltered position once the risk of frost has passed. Choose a spot receiving full sun and plant into rich, well-drained soil.

Allow around 30–45 cm between plants to give them room to grow and encourage good airflow. As the plants grow, provide support or staking to help keep the strong stems upright and the blooms looking their best.

Regular deadheading will encourage continued flowering throughout the season.

Why You’ll Love It

Wizard of Lightning has that gorgeous, soft vintage quality that makes it incredibly easy to work into bouquets. The creamy base and subtle blush colouring give the flowers a beautifully romantic feel, while the neat ball form adds structure and texture to arrangements.

Its strong stems make it particularly lovely for cutting, and the free-flowering habit means you’ll have plenty of blooms to bring inside throughout the season.

It’s one of those dahlias that looks beautiful en masse in the garden, but even better tucked into a vase.

Tuber Quality

Each of our dahlia tubers is carefully hand-selected and inspected to meet our quality standards. We check for:

• A healthy body

• A strong neck

• At least one visible eye ready to grow

Only when we’re confident it’s ready for your garden do we pack it up and send it on its way.

Please keep in mind that tubers naturally vary in size, shape, colour, and texture. Some may arrive looking a little small or slightly shrivelled — and that’s totally normal! As long as it has a good neck and an eye, it has everything it needs to grow beautifully. We only send tubers we’d be happy to plant ourselves.

Storage & Care

Once your tubers arrive, they’ll need a little care until it’s time to plant. Keep them in the box with the wood shavings in a cool, dry place until planting time. In New Zealand, this is usually around Labour Day weekend, once the risk of frost has passed — but conditions vary, so be sure to consider your local climate and soil.

Pest & Disease Notice

Our tubers come from healthy, disease-free beds and are divided with sanitised tools to keep them that way. While we do everything we can to ensure they’re in top shape when they leave us, we recommend planting them in pots for their first season so you can monitor them closely. Once they’re in your care, we can’t control outside factors like soil conditions, pests or cross-contamination from tool use.

Upon Arrival

Please open your package as soon as it arrives and check everything over. If you have any concerns, contact us within 24 hours, including clear photos, so we can help. If something’s not quite right, we’ll do our best to replace the tuber or offer a refund if we don’t have a suitable replacement.

Because tubers are living things, we’re unable to accept returns or offer refunds due to change of mind. Once the tubers leave our hands, we can’t guarantee how they’re stored or whether they’ve been exposed to garden conditions that might affect their health.

A Note on Variety & Surprise

We take every care to ensure your tubers are correctly labelled - but because this is a hands-on, seasonal process, and a house move at the end of last season, we have taken every car to ensure every tuber has been labelled correctly (you can find lucky dip dahlis for any we are unsure about), However the occasional mix-up can happen. If this small risk isn’t something you’re comfortable with, we completely understand and kindly ask that you don’t proceed with your purchase.

Shipping

Please ensure you select the correct flat rate shipping option for your delivery destination. Incorrect postage and handling means we have to follow up which in turn means your delivery will be delayed. Please bare with us as we work though all orders.