Cafe De Paris

Café de Paris is the spiky, sculptural sister to Café au Lait — bringing that same gorgeous, shifting palette of creamy white, warm beige, peach, old pink and soft mauve into a completely different flower form.

Its semi-cactus petals are sharply pointed, quilled and beautifully textured, creating a dramatic firework-like silhouette that feels both wild and incredibly sophisticated. The colouring shifts from bloom to bloom and with the changing weather, giving this variety an almost painterly quality.

With strong stems, impressive flower size and a vigorous, highly productive habit, Café de Paris is a seriously special choice for the cutting garden.

Key Features

• Flower Type: Semi-Cactus / Cactus

• Flower Size: 15–20 cm (6–8")

• Colour: Creamy white, warm beige, soft peach, old pink and subtle lavender-mauve

• Petal Form: Long, pointed, quilled and textured

• Plant Height: 90–120 cm

• Stems: Long, rigid and strong

• Flowering: Midsummer through to the first autumn frost

• Vase Life: 7+ days

• Best For: Cutting gardens, wedding bouquets, floral design and editorial work

Why You’ll Love It

Café de Paris is for anyone who loves Café au Lait but wants something a little more dramatic.

Those huge, sculptural flowers have incredible presence, while the soft, muted colour palette keeps them feeling romantic rather than loud. The combination of warm cream, peach, dusty pink and mauve is absolute magic in a bouquet.

And the texture is everything. The sharply pointed petals give arrangements movement and architectural interest, making Café de Paris especially beautiful for modern weddings, editorial floristry and statement bouquets.

It’s a big flower with plenty of personality — and thankfully, the plant itself is still wonderfully manageable and productive.

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 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.