“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” – If your idea of beauty is perfection and order, the dahlia named after the German writer Franz Kafka of the earlier part of the 20^th century who left the world that quote, will certainly keep you from getting old. The Dahlia ‘Franz Kafka’ is a ball of perfection, a pompon dahlia that is almost perfectly round and doesn’t have a single rolled cup-like petal out of place.

These balls of dark pink are not large; each one measuring about 5 cm (2 inch) in diameter, but like other dahlias, the plant is prolific.