This message has been posted to the top of the list for several months now. It appears that no one that accesses this forum grows that variety. Maybe some of us should try it as it is purportedly the oldest variety of dahlia that is still in existence. However, it is not readily available and is sold by only two retail outfits according to the dahlia big list.

This picture(link to a Flickr picture) looks a lot like the flower you inquired about:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirepapa/5367560243/in/pool-dahlias#/photos/mirepapa/5367560243/in/pool-13003066@N00/

Teddahlia, I like the photo. Old House Gardens has it for sale. Who else sells it? Last year someone said that they had ordered it, but I didn't see where they posted anything about how they liked it.

Has anyone grown it? Does anyone know of a source besides Old House Gardens?

I've grown York & Lancaster, I live in a pretty hot & dry climate during the summer time and the first year I grew it in a pretty sunny spot and most of the blooms were an pale red and as the season wound down I finally started to see a little bit of variegation in the blooms.

I grew it again last year but this time in the shade and that seemed to help quite a bit with the variegation and I saw a lot more white petals on the blooms right at the end of the season there was quite a bit of variety.

I've gotten some sizeable clumps of tubers from them but the tubers are quite round and dividing them is a crapshoot. I happened to buy mine from a seller on ebay and not from Old House Gardens but I'm guessing the seller had originally purchased her tubers from Old House Gardens because she had a few varieties I'd only seen offered on their site.

The ebay seller appears to be inactive, I was in contact with her for a bit the first year after I'd purchased the tubers but she may have been busy with other things and I never heard back from her after a few correspondences.