Bulb Alert | Hot Plant Alert Rare Plant Alert | Mail Order Alert Made in the Shade Alert Rare Bulb Highlights: Luscious Lilies

Hello Fellow Gardeners! There are so many exciting bulbs available for fall shipping or pick-up through our Rare Bulb offerings - 265 to be exact - that we thought we should introduce you to some of the many highlights between now and fall. In this instalment we highlight Fritillaria. These beautiful and esoteric bulbs are great for offering intrigue and interest to the spring garden. Enjoy! If you would like to order, full details on pre-ordering Rare Bulbs as well as Cypripedium Lady's Slipper Orchids are below. Our mail order site is now fully updated with all kinds of crazy and fantastic botanical bulbacious wonders, most of which you won't find anywhere else in Canada. Both local and mail order customers can place orders there for pick-up or shipping in the fall. Cheers, Gary and the Phoenicians

Corydalis solida 'Beth Evans' is an exquisite spring ephemeral with masses of pink tubular flowers. Definitely a choice woodlander! Available now for ordering from our Rare Bulb offerings.

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Rare Bulb Highlights Luscious Lilies

The world of lilies is diverse but among my favourites are the species and martagon lilies. These demure and intricate lilies offer a wide range of bold colours and beautiful detailing often with great, nodding turks cap style flowers. There is also Lilium mackliniae , new to our offerings this year, with gorgeous, pink, nodding, bell-shaped flowers. All of the lilies that are part of our Rare Bulb selection this year can be grown in part shade to full sun making them highly adaptable to a wide range of light conditions. Lilies are also extremely useful for layering in extra colour. They take up such a small footprint that they can be interplanted between existing perennials and shrubs where you could never shoe horn a normal plant. But lilies are happy to be inserted into any space and will grow happily rising up between and above the perennials in your garden. In my garden I have them rising up above Hosta and ferns in my part shade garden. They do marvellously, increase each year, and give an extra pop of colour in late spring and early summer after the spring fanfare of other bulbs and perennials has subsided. Here are all 11 of the cultivars we will have this year as part of our Rare Bulb offerings. Enjoy!

Lilium hansonii Hanson's Lily, Japanese Turk's Cap Lily Lilium hansonii is a rare, fragrant species for shade with thick, fleshy yellow flowers speckled brown.

Lilium mackliniae Shirui Lily Lilium mackliniae is a rare and distinctive species with downward-facing, bell-like blooms in white and pink.

Lilium martagon hybrid 'Arabian Knight' Turk's Cap Lily, Dragon Lily 'Arabian Knight' is a Lilium martagon hybrid with graceful petals deepening in rich, rust colour and red towards their tips from orange centres.

Lilium martagon hybrid 'Chameleon' Martagon Lily Lilium martagon 'Chameleon' opens from pink buds into pink flowers which gradually develop yellow, orange and salmon tones overlain with burgundy spots.

Lilium martagon hybrid 'Claude Shride' Martagon Lily Lilium martagon 'Claude Shride' has rich red to burgundy pendant flowers with recurved petals.

Lilium martagon hybrid 'Fairy Morning' Martagon Lily Lilium martagon 'Fairy Morning' has pink buds opening to shades of pink, peach, and tangerine overlain with burgundy spots.

Lilium martagon hybrid 'Gaybird' Martagon Lily Lilium martagon 'Gaybird' has dark pink pendant flowers with recurved petals, golden centres and nice spots.

Lilium martagon hybrid 'Manitoba Morning' Martagon Lily Lilium martagon 'Manitoba Morning' has rich pink flowers with yellow and burgundy spots.

Lilium martagon hybrid 'Orange Marmalade' Martagon Lily Lilium martagon 'Orange Marmalade' has shocking tangerine orange petals that are narrower than other martagons and no spotting held on dark stems.

Lilium martagon hybrid 'Russian Morning' Martagon Lily Lilium martagon 'Russian Morning' has beautiful deep pink flowers speckled with orange and black spots.

Lilium martagon hybrid 'Sunny Morning' Martagon Lily Lilium martagon 'Sunny Morning' has light and dark orange pendant flowers with recurved petals and nice spotting.

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Rare Spring Bulbs 265 Superlative Bulbs, Rhizomes, and Corms

Bulbs represent an extraordinary opportunity to layer in extra colour, dynamism, and drama into your perennial borders and containers. They come in a diverse range of colours, shapes, and sizes and there is a bulb for nearly every garden situation. Bulbs are also very easy to care for. Just dig a hole and drop them in. You're done! Now prepare for years of beauty and colour.  We are very excited to offer 265 different rare and unusual bulbs, rhizomes and corms this fall up from 200 last year! There are many new treasures to be discovered!

Visit the Rare Bulb Pre-Order on our Phoenix Perennials Mail Order Site to see our full selection. Both mail order and local customers should place their orders through our mail order system. Local customers should select the pick-up option when checking out. Quantities are limited. Please order early to secure your favourites as many bulbs sold out in advance last year. Our selection of rare bulbs will ship or be ready for pick-up in mid to late September, depending on when they arrive from Europe.  Local Customers : Choose "pick up" when you check out. We will send you an email when it's time to come in. Please place separate orders for bulbs and Cypripedium as this makes administering your orders easier. Please don't place orders for plants. They should all be ready now. You can always call or email first to enquire before you come in. Mail Order Customers : Please do not place orders mixing plants, bulbs or Cypripedium, unless you're placing an order for mixed plants and bulbs after Sept 15 or mixed plants, bulbs, and/or Cypripedium after October 1st. Otherwise, each of these categories will ship separately to arrive to you as fresh as possible for immediate planting and best establishment before winter. In summer and fall, plants are already grown and can't be held for more than a short period. They must ship when orders are placed. Bulbs ship in mid to late September. Cypripedium ship in mid October. If you place an order mixing these categories, we will need to arrange multiple shipments and recalculate your shipping costs. A Note on Shipping Costs : Unlike other mail order nurseries that ship fairly uniform products such as just bulbs or just bulbs and bareroot bagged perennials, we ship a very large range of products in a very large range of sizes. This makes it difficult to tweak our shopping cart system to give proper shipping cost estimates for all types of orders. We have left our system configured to estimate shipments containing plants which is the most costly type of item to ship and the most important for us to get right. However, this means that our system will sometimes over estimate the cost of shipping bulbs and Cypripedium. We will be re-evaluating all shipping costs for bulbs after shipping and adjust your shipping costs downwards should there be a discrepancy. Our goal is only to cover our costs in shipping, not to make money. Thanks for your understanding. Ordering : Visit the Rare Bulb Pre-Order on our Phoenix Perennials Mail Order Site to start shopping! The minimum order value to place a pre-order for mail order or pick-up is $40. Have fun!

Cypripedium Lady's Slipper Orchids 40 Amazing Hybrids and Species

We are excited to offer a diverse selection of hardy lady's slipper orchids for Canadian gardens. The majority of our offerings are Cypripedium hybrids which possess hybrid vigour -- they have inherited the best traits of both parents -- and are much easier to grow than species orchids, have beautiful flowers in amazing colours, and clump up very quickly into amazing displays in the part shade garden. In fact, in optimum conditions they should double in size every year! They come into bloom from late April through June offering an exquisite show in the garden. This year we have added a selection of some of the best and most interesting Cypripedium species. Once you've gotten some practice growing the hybrids these plants are a wonderful way to continue your love affair with lady's slipper orchids. Keep in mind though that species orchids are more exacting in their requirements and that you should do research on how to care for them. Most of our hybrid Cypripedium are "officially" hardy to zone 4 while some are hardy to zone 3 and even zone 2! Even the zone 4 plants may be hardy in protected spots in zone 3 with mulch and good snow cover as we are still learning about the hardiness of the different hybrids. Indeed, we have customers in Alberta and Saskatchewan who are growing these Cypripedium outdoors with great success. We are currently offering 40 different lady's slipper orchids for shipping to our mail order customers and for pick-up at Phoenix by our local customers in mid October 2017. All are top quality, blooming size, many with multiple eyes, and should flower in the spring. Here they are:

Ordering : Visit the Cypripedium Pre-Order to peruse and make your selections. All of our Cypripedium are top quality, blooming-size plants often with multiple eyes sourced from the best growers in Europe and provided to you bare root. October is the best time to buy and plant Cypripedium directly into the ground and the only time we will ship them. The largest rhizomes are selected to fill fall mail orders and pick-up orders. The remaining unsold rhizomes are potted up for spring sales on site at Phoenix. Local Customers : Choose "pick up" when you check out. We will send you an email when it's time to come in. Please place separate orders for bulbs and Cypripedium as this makes administering your orders easier. Please don't place orders for plants. They should all be ready now. You can always call or email first to enquire before you come in.  Mail Order Customers : Please do not place orders mixing plants, bulbs or Cypripedium, unless you're placing an order for mixed plants and bulbs after Sept 15 or mixed plants, bulbs, and/or Cypripedium after October 1st. Otherwise, each of these categories will ship separately to arrive to you as fresh as possible for immediate planting and best establishment before winter. In summer and fall, plants are already grown and can't be held for more than a short period. They must ship when orders are placed. Bulbs ship in mid to late September. Cypripedium ship in mid October. If you place an order mixing these categories, we will need to arrange multiple shipments and recalculate your shipping costs.  A Note on Shipping Costs : Unlike other mail order nurseries that ship fairly uniform products such as just bulbs or just bulbs and bareroot bagged perennials, we ship a very large range of products in a very large range of sizes. This makes it difficult to tweak our shopping cart system to give proper shipping cost estimates for all types of orders. We have left our system configured to estimate shipments containing plants which is the most costly type of item to ship and the most important for us to get right. However, this means that our system will sometimes over estimate the cost of shipping bulbs and Cypripedium. We will be re-evaluating all shipping costs for bulbs and Cyps after shipping and adjust your shipping costs downwards should there be a discrepancy. Our goal is only to cover our costs in shipping, not to make money. Thanks for your understanding.