Jowey Paula / Nicky

Jowey Paula (Nicky) is a seriously gorgeous ball dahlia and an absolute powerhouse in the cutting garden. this sought-after variety produces masses of beautifully rounded blooms in a warm, ever-changing palette of apricot, peach, melon, orange and soft salmon-pink.

The colour shifts beautifully throughout the season, with cooler autumn temperatures often bringing out softer pink and salmon tones. Each perfectly packed bloom is held proudly on long, strong stems, making Jowey Paula / Nicky one of those varieties that is as useful to a flower farmer as it is beautiful.

Key Features

• Flower Type: Ball

• Flower Size: 8–10 cm (3–4")

• Colour: Warm orange, apricot, melon and soft peach, shifting to salmon and pink

• Centre: Bright green

• Plant Height: 90–120 cm

• Stems: Long, thick and exceptionally sturdy

• Flowering: Early summer through to the first autumn frost

• Vase Life: Excellent

• Best For: Cutting gardens, bouquets, weddings and floral design

Planting & Care

Jowey Nicky performs best in full sun with rich, fertile, well-drained soil.

• Plant tubers approximately 5–10 cm deep, with the eye facing upwards.

• Allow 30–45 cm between plants for good airflow and healthy development.

• Pinch the growing tip once established to encourage branching and an abundance of flowering stems.

• Staking is recommended to support the plant as it becomes heavily laden with flowers.

• Keep the soil consistently moist during active growth, particularly through warm or dry weather.

• Harvest flowers regularly to encourage continued production.

• Remove spent blooms throughout the season to keep the plant flowering prolifically.

Why You’ll Love It

Jowey Nicky is one of those dahlias that earns its workhorse reputation. The flowers are beautifully uniform and wonderfully useful in bouquets, while the warm apricot-to-salmon colouring gives arrangements that gorgeous, sun-kissed feeling.

And then there are the stems. Long, thick and incredibly sturdy, they hold those heavy ball blooms beautifully upright and make Jowey Nicky particularly valuable for wedding and event floristry.

It’s also an incredibly productive variety, giving you an abundance of flowers throughout the season while reliably producing plenty of tubers for the following year.

Basically: beautiful, productive, strong-stemmed and excellent in the vase. What’s not to love?

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 or sap sucking insects.

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 care to ensure every tuber has been labelled correctly (you can find lucky dip dahlias for any we are unsure about), However there is always a slight chance a 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.