A craft nursery specializing in rare bulbs, alpine, rock garden and xeric plants for an evolving climate.

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We will be working on the spring catalog update the next couple of months, so enjoy January and February and maybe get another rock bed or trough built so that you can have plenty of places to put the 2026 illahe plant catalog that is coming soon!

Upcoming Events:

Delaware Chapter NARGS talk and plant sale:

March 1 (Sunday), 1:30 to 3:30 PM
Chapter Meeting "Growing Rock Garden and Alpine Plants," a talk At the Free Library of Springfield Township, 8900 Hawthorne Lane, Wyndmoor, PA Click here for details

March 2nd (Monday) 11:00-12:00

Philadeplhia flower show, talk from “Habitat to the home garden: cultivating mountain plants from around the world’

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Have a question about a plant or Illahe Rare Plants? Feel free to contact us below using the Contact button.

Interested in having Mark speak to your garden club or group? Use the Speaking Engagement button to contact Mark about his long list of colorful and entertaining lectures on the topics of rare and unusual geophytes and the evolutionary adaptations that make them unique to explorations of the Chilean Andes culture and flora, New Zealand mountains and gardens and the native wildflowers of the Western United States, as well as the propagation and cultivation of rare and unusual flower bulbs and alpines with an emphasis on how to grow the most difficult and challenging species.