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Folly Heirloom Daffodil Flower
Folly, 1926


Marie Heirloom Hyacinth Flower
Marie, 1860


Rubrum Lily Heirloom Flower Bulb
Rubrum lily, 1830


Byzantine Glad Heirloom Flower Bulb
Byzantine Glad, 1629
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SAMPLERS

Crocus Tapestry
Doubles Delight
Doubles Delight... Times Three!
Easter Basket Hyacinths — fragrant and colorful
Easter Basket Hyacinths... Times Two!
Intro to Heirlooms, Fall — easy, fun sampling of our best
Luscious Lilies — elegant and diverse
Northern Lights
Southern Jonquils

CROCUS
Albus — the “Starry Night” tommie
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
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
Albus Plenus Odoratus — snowy, fragrant double
April Queen — bright, flame-kissed cup
Avalanche — rescued from a British cliffside
Beersheba
Brilliancy
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
Dick Wellband — deep orange and cream
Double Campernelle — perfect “roses”
Dreamlight — champagne eye, apricot rim
Early Pearl — early, fragrant, and luminous
Erlicheer
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
Horace — poet of carpe diem
Horn of Plenty — long, dramatic bells
Insulinde — graceful, exuberant double
Irene Copeland
jonquil, Early Louisiana — aka Sweeties, Simplex
King Alfred — true stock!
Lent lily — Wordsworth’s dancer
Lintie — red-rimmed jonquil/poet combo
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
Orange Phoenix, Eggs & Bacon — cottage-garden classic
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
Sweetness — Wister Award-winner
Texas Star — “the Cowslip Cupped”
Thalia — dove-like classic
The Tenby Daffodil
Trevithian — “breath-taking”
Twin Sisters
Van Sion
Verger — as brilliant as a cathedral window
Vireo
W. P. Milner — spiraling petals of soft, silvery primrose
White Lady — Victorian lady with a parasol

HYACINTHS
Chestnut Flower — dawn-pink double
City of Haarlem — soft baby-chick yellow
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
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
Roman Blue — wildflowery, and it multiplies!
Snow White
Vuurbaak — deepest rose

LILIES
speciosum album — better than ‘Casa Blanca’?
superbum — American turk’s cap
Black Beauty — dark raspberry
Citronella — graceful lemon-yellow
coral lily — pixie flames
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
Alba Regalis
Black Parrot — exuberantly ruffled and frilled
Bleu Aimable — soft, silvery lilac
Cafe Brun — over-caffeinated and very cool
Cardinal Rampolla — burnt orange on dusky gold
Cerise Gris-de-Lin
Columbine — purple, lace-like tracery
Cottage Maid — rose and white sweetheart
Couleur Cardinal
Demeter
Diana — elegant ivory
Dillenburg — wonderfully fragrant
Duc van Tol Aurora — tiny yellow flamed with red
Elegans Alba — fragrant vanilla
Elegans Rubra — stark simplicity
Estella Rijnveld — raspberry-ripple ice cream
Florentine tulip
Generaal de Wet
Gloria Nigrorum — dark violet splashed on cream
Golden Harvest — fresh, dewy yellow
Greuze — rich, deep purple
Insulinde — enjoy its enchanting transformation
Joost van de Vondel
Keizerskroon
La Reine Rose — quaint little queen in rose and pink
La Remarquable
Lac van Rijn — ancient, purple-red & ivory
Mabel — barmaid’s delight?
Mrs. Scheepers — best yellow of the 20th century
Orange Favorite — fragrant and artistically feathered
Papillon
Peach Blossom — frothy Victorian double
Philippe de Comines — dark mahogany
Preludium — rose-pink over ivory
Prince of Austria — fragrant and enduring
Prinses Irene
Professor Schotel
Red Hue — edgy, off-kilter viridiflora
Rex Rubrorum Bontlof
Rosamunde Huykman
Rose Gris-de-Lin — prepare to be charmed
Royal Sovereign
Schoonoord — lush and radiant double
Striped Sail
The Lizard — flames of lilac and rose on cream
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!
camassia, quamash — Lewis and Clark were awed
Elwes or giant snowdrop — blooms very early, animal-proof
English bluebell — direct from England
Festiva Maxima peony — best-loved for over a century
German garlicAllium senescens montanum, butterfly favorite
Gravetye Giant snowflake — clusters of white bells
Madame Ducel peony — pink, petite, and rarely offered
Mons. Martin Cahuzac peony — darkest peony ever?
original grape hyacinth — earlier, bluer
oxblood lily — aka hurricane and schoolhouse lilies
purple-headed garlick — deer-resistant, “drumstick” allium
red spider lily — heirloom triploid, extra tough
Rubra Plena peony — classic Memorial Day “piney”
Sea Shell peony — graceful APS Gold Medal winner
Siberian squill — amazingly blue
silver bells — subtle, elegant, Quakerish
snake’s-head fritillary — checkered
Southern grape hyacinth
sowbread cyclamen — best cyclamen for most gardens
Spanish bluebell, squill — fool-proof classic
surprise lily, magic lily
traditional snowdrop
Turkish glory-of-the-snow — unusual, intensely blue species
winter aconite — earliest blooms


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