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Fall-Planted Bulbs

Our Spring-Planted Heirloom Bulb of the Year

CAROLINA PRIMROSE, 1908

This is not your ordinary glad! As graceful as a wildflower, it stunned us by surviving 22° below zero here. It’s reliably perennial in zones 6-9 (6-11 on the West Coast), multiplying year after year without care. And you can grow it from seed! Collected from an old homesite in NC, it’s an early form of the “Maid of the Mist” glad (G. primulinus, now lumped into G. dalenii, first offered in the US by Thorburn in 1908) and a kissing cousin of the equally wonderful ‘Boone’. Our supplies are still limited, but we just couldn’t wait any longer to honor it as Bulb of the Year! 3 feet, from Texas. Chart to compare.
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Our Spring-Planted Crown Jewels

Throughout our site, these treasures are highlighted with a green or purple bar and the word RAREST. Most you can’t get anywhere else in North America, and the rest you’d be very hard-pressed to find. That makes them extra-endangered — and extra-exciting in the garden.
Capitals indicate bulbs that are NEW or returned to our catalog after a hiatus.

Mme. Caseneuve, 1902

Kaiser Wilhelm, 1892

Mexicana, 1967

CANNAS
INDICA, 1596 — tiny tongues of flame
ASSAUT, 1920 — voluptuous red with dark leaves
Madame Caseneuve, 1902 — our 2005 Bulb of the Year

DAHLIAS
ATROPURPUREA, 1789 — wild original, dark and velvety
Arab Queen, 1949 — a whirlwind of autumn leaves
Jersey’s Beauty, 1923 — 20th century’s most celebrated
Kaiser Wilhelm, 1893 — yellow, burgundy, and a green button eye
Little Beeswings, 1909 — flame and yellow honeycomb
MADAME STAPPERS, 1947 — chocolate foliage, radiant flowers
WHITE ASTER, 1879 — world’s oldest garden dahlia
Winsome, 1940 — shocking beauty

GLADIOLUS
CAROLINA PRIMROSE, 1908 — it’s back, and it’s our Bulb of the Year!
GREEN WOODPECKER, 1958 — a Sputnik-era classic returns
SPRING MAID, 1961 — soft, almost silvery yellow

Click here to see WHAT’S NEW this year.

Click here to see our FALL-PLANTED RAREST bulbs.

Click here to see our CUSTOMERS’ FAVORITES, our best-selling bulbs.

Click here to see our SPRING-PLANTED SAMPLERS, collections to bloom in summer.

Click here to see our FALL-PLANTED SAMPLERS, collections to bloom in spring.

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Fall-Planted Bulbs

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