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Queen of the North Daffodil Heirloom Flower Bulb
Queen of the North, 1908


Rubrum Lily Heirloom Flower Bulb
Rubrum lily, 1830


Black Beauty Heirloom Lily Flower Bulb
Black Beauty, 1957


Striped Sail Heirloom Tulip Flower Bulb
antique freesia, 1878


Clusiana Heirloom Tulip Flower Bulb
T. clusiana, 1607
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SAMPLERS

Crocus Tapestry Sampler — petite spring treats
Depression Buster, Fall — easy, fun sampling of our best
Doubles Delight
Doubles Delight... Times Three!
Easter Basket Hyacinths — fragrant and colorful
Grandma’s Jewel Box
Luscious Lilies — elegant and diverse
Northern Lights — daffodils well-suited to Northern climes
Southern Jonquils — daffodils for Southern gardens
Summer Perfumes
Woodland Sprites

CROCUS
Cloth of Gold — bees flock to this “Turkey crocus”
King of the Striped — charmingly imperfect Victorian king
Mammoth Yellow — molten sun
Negro Boy — darkest of all
Paulus Potter — ruby-purple & elegant
Peter Pan — innocent white from WW II
Pictus — lavender, white, and neon purple
Roseus — the world’s PINKEST crocus
Snowbunting — musk-like fragrance
tommies — lavender self-sower
Vanguard — platinum and amethyst

DAFFODILS
moschatus — creamy white and demurely nodding
Albus Plenus Odoratus — snowy, fragrant double
April Queen — bright, flame-kissed cup
Avalanche — rescued from a British cliffside
Beersheba
Broughshane — amber-white Irish trumpet
Butter and Eggs — the classic cottage-garden double
Campernelle — true stock, Southern classic
Carlton — foolproof from ND to FL
Chinita — fragrant, pale amber moons
Conspicuus — Victorian butterflies
Daphne — ADS 2008 Best Historic Daffodil
Dick Wellband — deep orange and cream
Double Campernelle — perfect “roses”
Dreamlight — champagne eye, apricot rim
Early Pearl — early, fragrant, and luminous
Empress — gold and ivory soul-mate of ‘Emperor’
Erlicheer — clusters of cheer for outside or in
Firetail — is its cup truly RED?
Folly — epitome of brilliancy and refinement
Geranium — sun-proof juicy orange
Golden Spur — extra-early Victorian trumpet
Grand Primo — most vigorous and floriferous
Hoop Petticoats — funnel cups and exclamation-point petals
Horn of Plenty — long, dramatic bells
Insulinde — graceful, exuberant double
Irene Copeland
jonquil, Early Louisiana — aka Sweeties, Simplex
Kidling — cute as a baby goat
King Alfred — true stock!
Little Witch — cute little pixie with swept-back petals
Louise de Coligny — sweet-scented apricot beauty
Lucifer — angel wings, devilish cup
Marjorie Hine — extravagantly ruffled
Martha Washington — jewel-like colors, warm perfume
Mary Copeland — Irene Copeland’s wilder sister
Maximus, Trumpet Major — loved for over 400 years!
Minor MonarqueN. x italicus, long-petalled and star-like
Mrs. Backhouse — the first “pink”
Mrs. Langtry — crinkled canary cup ringed with gold
Niveth — Thalia’s elegant, uptown cousin
Ornatus — earlier, perfect pheasant's eye
Pheasant’s Eye — red-rimmed “eye”
Princeps — graceful white and yellow wildling
Queen of the North — lemon sorbet
Red Devon — powerful yellow and orange
Rip van Winkle — spiked cutie
Rose of May — rose-like shape and fragrance
Saint Keverne — perfectly sculpted block of butter
Seagull — floats like a butterfly, apricot rim
Shirley Temple — broad ivory ruff with a sunny rosette
Southern Queen — for North, East, & West, too!
Sweetness — Wister Award-winner
Texas Star — “the Cowslip Cupped”
Thalia — dove-like classic
The Tenby Daffodil
Trevithian — “breath-taking”
Twin Sisters — aka Loving Couples, Cemetery Ladies
Van Sion — multiplies vigorously, amazing double
Verger — as brilliant as a cathedral window
Vireo — the jonquil named for a green songbird
W. P. Milner — spiraling petals of soft, silvery primrose
White Lady — Victorian lady with a parasol

HYACINTHS
Bismarck — our first offering since 2003
Chestnut Flower — dawn-pink double
City of Haarlem — soft baby-chick yellow
Dreadnought — curly-petalled double
General Kohler — double blue-purple
Gipsy Queen — apricot and melons
Grace Darling — Victorian heroine
Grand Monarque — lost and now found
Hollyhock — deep rose pug-faced rosettes
King of the Blues — distinctively slim and dark
L’Innocence — pure white, easiest to force
Lady Derby — soft pink, easiest to force
Madame Sophie — voluptuous double white
Marie — deepest indigo-purple
Menelik — black and beautiful
Mulberry Rose — raspberry ice cream
Oranje Boven — rosy apricot jewel
Perle Brilliante — lost and now found
Queen of the Blues — soft, silvery blue
Roman Blue — wildflowery, and it multiplies!
Roman Pink — wildflowery, pink, and wonderful
Vuurbaak — deepest rose

LILIES
speciosum album — better than ‘Casa Blanca’?
superbum — American turk’s cap
African Queen — vigorous, vibrant and fragrant
Black Beauty — dark raspberry
Black Dragon — tall, dark, fragrant
Citronella — graceful lemon-yellow
coral lily — pixie flames
Dahurian lily — Siberian sass in spring
double tiger lily — delightfully odd
Excelsior — sunrise in Key West
Formosa lily — best lily for the South
Hanson’s lily — dainty, amber, “lasting forever”
Henry’s lily — wild Chinese lily
leopard lily — California native
martagon lily — dainty turk’s -caps
Mrs. R. O. Backhouse — gold, pink, and cordovan classic
Red Velvet — “the perfect garden lily”
regal lily — fragrant and easy
Rubrum lily — sprinkled with rubies
tiger lily — Grandma’s favorite
White Henryi — Hall of Fame masterpiece
white martagon — made for fairies, luminous

TULIPS
acuminata — “spidery and mad”
clusiana — original WHITE & red
marjolettii — wildflowery gem
Absalon — chocolate and chestnut on gold
Alabaster — long-lasting, fragrant white
Amiral de Constantinople — “dragon” tulip, jagged and billowing
Beauty of Bath — rose-on-yellow to purple-on-white
Black Parrot — exuberantly ruffled and frilled
Bleu Aimable — soft, silvery lilac
Bridesmaid — flashes and splashes of hot color
Cafe Brun — over-caffeinated and very cool
Columbine — purple, lace-like tracery
Cottage Maid — rose and white sweetheart
Couleur Cardinal — red blushed with plum
Demeter — returns for years, vibrant rosy purple
Diana — elegant ivory
Dillenburg — wonderfully fragrant
Duc de Berlin — enduringly popular
Duc van Tol Rose — tiny pink and white ballerina
Elegans Alba — fragrant vanilla
Estella Rijnveld — raspberry-ripple ice cream
Florentine tulip
Generaal de Wet — fragrant and fiery
General Ney — rich dark cordovan
Gloria Nigrorum — dark violet splashed on cream
Golden Harvest — fresh, dewy yellow
Greuze — rich, deep purple
Insulinde — enjoy its enchanting transformation
James Wild — gloriously amber-brown
Keizerskroon — “magnificent for any purpose”
Kingsblood — vibrant red and late-blooming
La Remarquable — razor-sharp, crimson, plum and silvery pink
Lac van Rijn — ancient, purple-red & ivory
Mabel — barmaid’s delight?
Markgraaf van Baden — molten-lava “dragon” tulip
Orange Favorite — fragrant and artistically feathered
Paeony Gold — like an exotic green and gold protea
Peach Blossom — frothy Victorian double
Philippe de Comines — dark mahogany
Preludium — rose-pink over ivory
Prince of Austria — fragrant and enduring
Prinses Irene — superb for forcing indoors
Purple Crown — dark purplish red, aka 'The Moor'
Royal Sovereign — extraordinary and extra old
Sam Barlow — spectacular flames, red, brown, yellow
Schoonoord — lush and radiant double
The Lizard — flames of lilac and rose on cream
Theeroos — with tea-rose fragrance!
Van der Neer — rosy-purple, Civil-War-era
Wapen van Leiden — did George Washington grow this?
White Triumphator — elegant favorite of Ryan Gainey
Willem van Oranje — Renoir coppery-peach

DIVERSE
antique freesia — super fragrant naturalizer
Byzantine gladiolus — true stock!
Chestine Gowdy peony — tri-colored
Edulis Superba peony — popular since 1824
Elwes or giant snowdrop — blooms very early, animal-proof
English bluebell — direct from England
Felix Crousse peony — vivid raspberry
Festiva Maxima peony — best-loved for over a century
German garlicAllium senescens montanum, butterfly favorite
Gravetye Giant snowflake — clusters of white bells
Mikado peony — America’s first Japanese peony
Myrtle Gentry peony — most fragrant
original grape hyacinth — earlier, bluer
oxblood lily — aka hurricane and schoolhouse lilies
purple-headed garlic — deer-resistant, “drumstick” allium
red spider lily — heirloom triploid, extra tough
Siberian squill — amazingly blue
silver bells — subtle, elegant, Quakerish
snake’s-head fritillary — checkered
Southern grape hyacinth — midnight blue & heat-loving
sowbread cyclamen — best cyclamen for most gardens
Spanish bluebell, squill — fool-proof classic
surprise lily or magic lily — aka naked ladies, resurrection lily
traditional snowdrop
Turkish glory-of-the-snow — unusual, intensely blue species
winter aconite — earliest blooms


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