Flip Flop Waterlily Hybridizer: Gitts (2009)

Hybridizer: Gitts (2009)

Flip Flop has very similar tones to American Dawn

It’s a mid to late season grower for me so I pop her in a nursery pot with potting soil a month prior my frost date to get more of these unique and versatile blooms even sooner

Bisschops (2002)

Bloom Style: Informal Decorative

Flip Flop Waterlily Hybridizer: Gitts (2009)Flip Flop was such a sleeper dahlia this year I didnt expect to be so smitten! I attribute part of this to two unexpected characteristics that I dont see (or didnt notice) in other Flip Flop photos online. First the slightly wavy nature of the petals that break from the more rigid spikes of a typical semi cactus. Second the two tone petals with a mauvey fuschia on the underside with a brighter coral on the face which delightfully highlight these