For an easy introduction to the wonders of antique bulbs, let us choose for you — and save! We’ll send at least $35 worth of diverse, time-tested, fall-planted bulbs for just $30 (plus shipping). They’ll all be labled, great for your area, and may include daffodils, lilies, hyacinths, tulips, peonies, crocus, and others. It’s fun, easy, and a deal!

Please order by USDA hardiness zone. (Don’t know yours? Find it here.) Limit 1 sampler per address, please.

These sweet little wildflowers will multiply happily in light shade and soil that’s not too dry in zones 5-7bS/8bWC. You’ll get 5 Grecian windflowers, 5 winter aconites, 5 snake’s-head fritillaries, 5 silver bells, and 5 Siberian squill.

For 10, 15, or more of each, order additional samplers.

Tough enough to laugh at high heat, poor soils, and even hurricanes, these beauties have graced gardens throughout the South (and warm West) for generations. We’ll send you 1 red spider lily, 1 oxblood lily, 3 ‘Excelsior’ Spanish bluebells, 3 ‘Gravetye Giant’ snowflakes, and 3 Southern grape hyacinths. For zones 7-8bS/9bWC only.

   For more of each variety, order additional samplers.

Butterflies and bees love these fuzzy little lavender pompons blooming in mid-summer over neat green foliage. Although most alliums didn’t become popular until the last 25 years, in 1866 Boston’s E.S. Rand included German garlic in his Bulbs, and in 1900 Liberty Hyde Bailey listed it as one of just six “in general cultivation.” 12-18”, zones 4-7bS/9aWC, from Michigan. Chart to compare.

In America’s first bulb catalog in 1820, William Prince listed just one allium: “purple headed-garlick.” Often called “drumsticks” today, this easy, deer-resistant perennial has 1-inch, egg-shaped flowerheads that start green, turn rose, and end up wine-red. Cool! 30-36”, zones 4a-7bS/9WC, from Holland. Chart to compare.

Cheap, easy to grow, yet “one of the loveliest of flowers” (to quote Louise Beebe Wilder), this wild anemone first appeared in US catalogs in the 1890s. The variety ‘White Splendor’ was introduced in 1950, won an RHS Award of Garden Merit in 1993, and, to quote Christopher Lloyd, is both “the strongest growing” and “dazzling.” 4-8”, zones 5-8aS/9WC, from Holland. Chart to compare.

The woodlands of Wave Hill in early spring are awash in this sapphire-blue Turkish wildflower. Deeper blue and shorter than common glory-of-the-snow, it blooms at crocus time, naturalizes eagerly, and was awarded an RHS AGM as a plant so good it belongs in every garden. 4-6”, zones 4-7S/9WC, from Holland. Chart to compare.

We’re proud to deliver huge bulbs, 3-4 inches across, of this fall-blooming cyclamen that bulb-guru John Bryan calls “the first choice for most gardens.” Known as sowbread in Shakespeare’s time, today it’s called ivy-leaved cyclamen for its angular, ivy-like, silver-patterned leaves. Give it light shade and humus-rich soil that’s dry in summer. Aka C. neapolitanum, 4-6”, zones 6-7bS/9bWC, from Holland. Chart to compare.

If these extra-early cups of sunshine have failed you, try ours! They’re wax-dipped so they won’t dry out and die before planting. Blooming even earlier than snowdrops, they multiply eagerly in light shade, and are so animal-proof that the Elizabethans called them Little Yellow Woolfes-bain. 3-5”, zones 5-7S/8WC, from Holland. Chart to compare.