Bulb Alert
Final Shipment Just Arrived!
Ready for Shopping & Order Pick-Ups
Starting at 1pm Saturday
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At long last our final shipment of bulbs has arrived from Europe. It's been a bit of a crazy year owing to one of the most challenging harvests in 50 years. The bulbs we are getting are great quality but there have been many shortages across the rare bulb world this year plus many shipments have been delayed much later than usual.
Our shipment arrived at the end of the day today (Friday) and tomorrow morning (Saturday) we'll be packaging, completing pick-up and mail order orders, and putting the extras out for sale. We should be ready by 1pm Saturday. Please don't come before that as we won't be ready for you.
If you have a pick-up order we'll also be contacting you individually and if you have a mail order we will be shipping on Monday. Thank you all for your patience. Sometimes good things are worth the wait.
If you're curious about what has just come in, you can check most of them out below. You can still place mail orders and pick-up orders through our online system for both rare bulbs and Cypripedium lady's slipper orchids (which have also arrived).
Also we will have a few rarities that were not available previously for advance ordering: Arum creticum, Allium altissimum, Allium karataviense ssp. henrikki (formerly 'Red Globe'), Dracunculus vulgaris, Fritillaria bucharica, Narcissus 'Accent' and 'Apricot Whirl', and we may have some extras of Eremurus 'Foxtrot' and 'Cleopatra'.
Cheers, Gary and the Phoenicians
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Tulipa 'Columbine' introduced in 1929 is richly coloured with feathers, flames or marbles of purple on lavender with white.
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Help Us Spread the Word
In order for Phoenix Perennials to continue doing everything we do, including bringing you a candy store of delectable plants, we need to keep reaching new people. Please forward this email to your gardening friends and family. Better yet, bring them with you on a trip to Phoenix Perennials! We also do mail order so please help us spread the word across Canada! Thanks so much for your help!
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Rare Bulbs
Just Arrived in Our Final Shipment!
Available Saturday Starting at 1pm
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Allium carinatum ssp. pulchellum 'Album' offers pure white fireworks of small florets in the summer garden.
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Allium 'Statos' (syn. 'Stratos') grows to 3-5 feet tall with large spheres of tiny, star-like, warm purple flowers.
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Camassia leichtlinii 'Sacajawea' has elegant spires covered with masses of star-shaped white flowers atop variegated foliage.
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Camassia leichtlinii 'Semiplena' is a gorgeous double-flowered form of great camas with white flowers.
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Crocus sieberi ssp. sublimis 'Tricolor' is a spring crocus with vivid purple, yellow and white flowers.
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Crocus 'Lilac Beauty' is a selected form with glowing icy lavender petals that are lighter at the base, darkening towards the tips.
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Dichelostemma 'Pink Diamond' has lavender-pink, light pink and white flowers.
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Erythronium 'Pagoda' has lemon yellow, nodding, lily-like flowers held above lush, glossy, burgundy-mottled foliage.
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Fritillaria stenanthera is a rare and unusual species for this genus in that it sports pink flowers.
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Gladiolus carneus 'is a South African native with large flowers in shades from white through pink with dark pink markings.
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Gladiolus nanus 'Elvira' has orchid-like, palest pink flowers with bold dark pink spots and a dark pink throat.
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Gladiolus nanus is a smaller, hardy gladiola. 'Nymph' has white florets with pretty, hot pink markings.
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'Dardanus' is an exquisite Iris with lilac-purple standards and paler falls all etched with burgundy-purple veins.
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'Arabian Knight' is a Lilium martagon hybrid with graceful petals deepening in rich, rust colour and red towards their tips from orange centres.
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Lilium martagon 'Gaybird' has dark pink pendant flowers with recurved petals, golden centres and nice spots.
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Lilium martagon 'Orange Marmalade' has shocking tangerine orange petals that are narrower than other martagons and no spotting held on dark stems.
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Ornithogalum dubium is unusual in its genus for having bright tangerine orange flowers rather than white and green centres.
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Scilla hyacinthoides 'Blue Arrow' looks like a rocket ship of starry blue flowers erupting from out of the border.
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Tulipa marjolettii is a tall tulip with creamy yellow flowers with a pink flush.
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Tulipa turkestanica has pure white, pointed petals sometimes with a pink edge and a yellow to orange-yellow centre with 1-12 flowers per stem.
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Arum creticum
Allium altissimum
Allium karataviense ssp. henrikki (formerly 'Red Globe')
Dracunculus vulgaris
Fritillaria bucharica
Narcissus 'Accent'
Narcissus 'Apricot Whirl'
Eremurus 'Foxtrot' (Perhaps a few available.)
Eremurus 'Cleopatra' (Perhaps a few available.)
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Rare Spring Bulbs
265 Superlative Bulbs, Rhizomes, and Corms
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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!
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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!
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Cypripedium
Lady's Slipper Orchids
40 Amazing Hybrids and Species
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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:
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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.
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