Coseytown Dollys Heart

$30.95

Thank you for your interest in Coseytown Dahlias! When you come to the source for your favorite Coseytown creations by independent dahlia hybridizer LeeAnn Huber of Coseytown Flowers you are:

  • Supporting an independent full-time occupational dahlia hybridizer

  • Providing compensation for our hybridization efforts
    Our investments into the cut flower and dahlia enthusiast community are compensated solely through the plants we propagate and sell directly to you and without your support it is not possible to do what we do

  • Investing in the success of a woman-owned business and self-supporting family farm

  • Investing in the success of a business driving innovation and progress in the dahlia and cut flower community
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    OUR COMMITMENT TO HEALTHY DAHLIAS
    At Coseytown Flowers we are fully inspected and licensed by the State of Pennsylvania for the production and distribution of plant materials and seed
    . Our proactive management practices include disinfection using 10% bleach solution between every plant rotating snips. We have an expert’s eye and a ZERO tolerance policy for symptomatic plants. As a component of our disease management plan, our active pest management plan utilizes a variety of measures based on seasonal risk level with continual monitoring from first planting until final tuber harvest.

    We test for common RNA and DNA dahlia viruses including TSWV, TSV, INSV, and DMV and make substantial costly recurring investments into ongoing proactive dahlia virus testing and research to create and utilize best practices in the responsible propagation of our plant stock. Recent investments into our virus testing and research program include 5-figures worth of direct cost investments exclusive of time, labor, and other indirect costs.


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    Meet Coseytown Dollys Heart, a robust and beautifully deep burgundy red dahlia with an interesting story behind her name; keep reading to find out more.

    In 2022 our local Greencastle, Pennsylvania community had the opportunity during its weeklong community-wide triennial homecoming celebration, called Old Home Week, to name a brand-new variety. This as-yet-unnamed burgundy red dahlia was on display during the Old Home Week Flower Show for all to see and submit name suggestions for, and there was one name that quickly filtered to the top.

    As I quickly learned throughout the process, Greencastle has a very long-standing history of residents that dearly love their hometown; a devotion that is palpable and spans generations. More than one citizen suggested the Dolly name, and for different reasons.

    One suggestion succinctly detailed the life of Frances ‘Dolly’ Harris, a courageous Greencastle citizen and Civil War heroine who, as a teenager, defiantly stood up to Confederate Gen. George E. Pickett and his men as they marched through Greencastle, Pennsylvania. I immediately fell in love with this woman's confidence, bravery, and audaciousness. She had heart and her brazen actions are still being talked about some 160 years later.

    Another submission suggested the name Dollys Heart, in honor of Dolly Shoemaker who championed the Old Home Week Flower Show for many decades. I can appreciate the dedication someone can give to a cause over a lifetime. Communities are built upon the legacies developed over time by tenacious people that continue to show up.

    For all these reasons, I decided on the name Dollys Heart. It’s a name that embodies the endearing and enduring qualities of two Greencastle citizens that each left a lasting legacy in their own way. A name that speaks of standing up for what you believe in. A name that exudes bravery and tenacity. A name established in town pride and loyalty.

    LeeAnn's Hybridizer Notes
    Coseytown Dollys Heart is a sturdy plant that produces an abundance of dark green foliage. When grown in a row it forms an impactful green hedge with rich colored flowers that bloom all season. Dollys Heart has consistently bloomed at the end of July when tubers are planted mid-May here in south central PA.

    The plant has a fantastic branching habit and strong stems, and I’ve always felt like this plant could get away with not being staked. Despite being on the short side for a cut flower dahlia, it blooms above the leaf canopy, and you can harvest 16 inches of stem without sacrificing the plants integrity. Dollys Heart’s growth habit reminds me of a peony plant in size and scale, but with the advantage of blooming all summer until frost, so I know this dahlia would function well as a hands-off landscape plant.

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    The Details

    • Coseytown Dollys Heart

    • Bloom Form:

      Formal Decorative

    • Bloom Color:

      Deep Burgundy Red

    • Bloom Size:

      3 in

    • Plant Height:

      3.5 ft

    Learn About Coseytown

    Here at Coseytown Flowers we specialize in the creation, cultivation and sale of new dahlia varieties, with leading plant traits in health, growth and vigor, for the cut-flower and enthusiast markets.

    Leading the charge is LeeAnn Huber - the dahlia hybridizer, educator, flower farmer and entrepreneur behind it all. Prioritizing continual growth in knowledge and practice is our guiding star, and LeeAnn's passion for lifelong learning and applying evidenced based approaches in an agricultural context is embodied in her daily mantra ‘Every day is a school day!’ LeeAnn has amassed a sizable and engaged following among fellow cut flower farmers and gardening enthusiasts, where she is known for taking topics head on in a thoughtful and engaging way while sharing her expertise on all things dahlias.

    Coseytown Flowers strives to offer only the highest quality single-division dahlia tubers and premium dahlia seed. All our tubers are individually labeled, and all orders are individually inspected for quality and accuracy prior to shipment. Coseytown Flowers dahlia fields and storage facilities are inspected annually by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and we possess all needed inspections and licensing to sell dahlia tubers and seed. 

    As an independent hybridizer and self-supporting family farm, every dahlia tuber and seed we sell were grown for you with love by their originators right here at Coseytown Flowers. Thank you for making it possible to do what we do!

    At the heart of our mission is the Coseytown commitment to integrity with continual growth in knowledge and practice with core values of healthy plants, happy pollinators and responsible production. We take the health of our plants and tubers seriously by testing for and providing our dahlia plants with the proper conditions, nutrition and proactive management for optimal plant and pollinator health. We also proactively test for the following major DNA and RNA viruses: Dahlia mosaic virus (DMV), Dahlia common mosaic virus (DCMV), Impatiens necrotic spot virus (INSV), Tobacco streak virus (TSV) and Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV). To learn more directly from LeeAnn about the Coseytown Commitment to Healthy Dahlias, including our proactive 3-pronged approach to address virus in dahlias, please click here.

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