Open Gardens and Plant Sale!

On the shipping season, botanical wanderings and the way the world should be.

Spring plant list out now, rare rock garden treasures shipped to your garden!

The fantastic Moraea!

It’s Plant Sale time!

It’s coming along!

From Snow to Sun, California sunsets and Oregon Spring rains, it’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks, check out the gallery for some of the Adventures.

Snow showers and Iranian Fritillaria.

Treason…………there is no other way to view it.

A brief photo history of the greenhouses at illahe and an update on the new house construction.

The arctic outbreak has passed and the bulb house is back in bloom.

Winter finally showed up, it was an ice coated, frozen weekend here in Western Oregon.

A winter walk through the garden and bulb house on the first day of the new year. Looks like spring is coming soon.

A Christmas Wish and a Climate Battery Update

Iris planifolia the winter blooming Juno, Appalachian Murder Ballads and Climate Batteries.

December wishes, New Zealand travels and Christmas ideas!

Brachyglottis on the slopes of Mt. Doom, NZ

The late season bloomers at illahe rare plants.

A brief on the wonderful saffron group species, Crocus cartwrightianus.

Frost is on the way for the valley, signaling the end of one season and the beginning of another.

The bulb season has ended