Flower Bulb availability coming soon!
The dormant flower bulbs for summer shipping will be posted early next week. I have had a few customer inquiries thinking I’m sold out of everything already, but I haven’t gotten everything dug and inventoried yet. I assure you it will be a great list this year with something for every garden and collector! The bulb section on the website will likely be down for a day or two while I update this years list. If you missed out last year on some of the super cool new Erythronium hybrids that we have introduced through Diana Reecks selection work, we will have more of these wonderful treasures this year.
Erythronium ‘Madam Butterfly’
International shipping is available, with the phytosanitary paperwork we offer. For our customers overseas, please do your due diligence and look into your import regulations to be sure everything goes smoothly on your end before placing an order. Worldwide it’s getting more bureacratic and difficult to ship bulbs and plants, but if you are aware of the rules and regulations. I still can’t ship anything that is CITES listed so make sure you are aware of that list as well.
Erythronium ‘Pacific Crest’
As the nursery has grown and expanded beyond just me and my small list of bulbs, the work load has grown significantly. I will do my best to get shipments out within three weeks of ordering but this is a general guideline and I will let you know if it will be later than that. You will get a tracking number when the order ships so you can plan for arrival. If you are new to ordering from us we do occasionally dust the bulbs with sulfur to help with storage and shipping. Some of the more delicate items are packed in vermiculite for shipping, do use common sense when unpacking and planting. We hand pack everything with care and you can be assured you are supporting an Oregon based small business that is about as homegrown as it gets.
Erythronium ‘Inner Glow’
Speaking of small business, I really do appreciate the support of all the customers through these years. The American capitalist winner take all, monopoly game of a system has stacked the odds so far against small business that it is amazing that any of us are able to make it. From paypal to credit card fees that take 3% off of the top of every purchase, to an overburden of taxes falling on the working class, to the new economy of the everything digital age with payments for website hosting, internet, cell phones, and the myriad of other electronic fees, to the currently inflationary state induced by corporate greed making every material used in the production of flower bulbs exorbitantly more expensive, the license/fees required to just operate in a state, under the watchful eye of the agricultural regulators, to even the damned weather making it more difficult to produce flowers. Prices must go up to keep this thing afloat. Again, I appreciate the loyal customers through all the years, thank you for your support, as much as I hate to do it, I have to pay the bills. We have seen a never ending decline of speciality nurseries over the past decade or so, from retirements, to corporate mergers, to being priced out of real estate and landholdings to just plain not being able to afford to pay the bills, it’s a tough business to be in and one that even the best, and most established nurseries are likely hanging on by a thread. It’s something you do because you love to spread the wealth of flowers and make people happy, but you gotta keep the lights on to do it.
Keep an eye on that inbox, I’ll post up the day the list becomes active.
Solid week of 90 plus degree days, definitely the most consistently hot summer I have ever seen here.
Cheers,
Mark