Clematis Alert | Mail Order Alert | Hot Plant Alert
Bush Clematis
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Clematis are among the most beloved of all garden plants. Their twining vines produce such a wide range of gorgeous flowers in almost every colour of the rainbow that it's hard not to love them.
But do you know the bush clematis? These beautiful non-twining species and cultivars add new dimensions to a genus you thought you already knew! Learn more in our article below.
Also in this Alert we clarify both ways you can order Clematis in 2022 along with some details on how you do that - please read our information in full. We offer so many different plants which are all available at different times so some have to be ordered in different ways.
We also highlight our new Clematis offerings for the upcoming season. In all there are 136 Clematis available now for ordering. Have fun making your decisions!
You'll also find information about our many different pre-orders below including the:
- Summer Bulb and Bare Root Pre-Order
- Great Citrus Pre-Order
- Grafted Veggie Pre-Order
- Great Rose Pre-Order
- Clematis Conundrum Pre-Order
- Hydrangea Hysteria Pre-Order (Pick-Up Only)
- Amazing Apple Pre-Order (Pick-Up Only)
Enjoy!
Cheers, Gary and the Phoenicians
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Summer Bulb & Bare Root Pre-Order
454 Different Plants including more than 100 different Dahlia!
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Help us Support Food Banks BC
Order Grafted Veggies and $1 from each pre-ordered plant will go to support food security in communities across BC
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We are open February 25th to November 13th, 2022 seven days a week 10am-5pm including all holidays. |
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Upcoming Garden and Botanical Tours
With the end of Covid in sight, we are working on new dates and tours. Here's your up to date information.
Gardens of Ireland
Sold Out! Waiting List Open
Main Tour: June 24th-July 4th, 2022
Optional Northern Ireland Extension: July 4th-7th, 2022
Gardens of the Impressionists and the Loire
Late June/Early July 2023
Tour itinerary is currently being developed. For now, you can email World Wide Quest at [email protected] to get on the list for more information once it is released.
South Africa: The Cape Floristic Province
and the Bulb Capital of the World
New Date! Fall 2024
To receive information on these tours once the itineraries and details are ready, please email Worldwide Quest at [email protected]. Mention the name of the tour and the tour guide, Gary Lewis.
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Plants to the People!
Pick-Up, Courier, Freight, and Mail Order Shipping Services
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Workshops 2022 Postponed Until Further Notice |
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Click the New Plants link in the Specialized Searches Section.
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Help Us Spread the Word
Please tell your friends and family about Phoenix Perennials. Share this email with them, tell them about your mail order plants, or bring them with you to visit the nursery.
Thanks so much for your help!
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Update Your E-Newsletter & Alert Subscriptions
You can manage your subscriptions to our E-Newsletter and Alerts at any time by clicking on the "Update Profile" link at the bottom of every E-News or Alert. The E-Newsletter comes out twice a month. The 18 different Alerts come out occasionally only when we have something exciting to tell you. Perhaps you have FOMOOP ("Fear of Missing Out On Plants") and want to get every digital communication. Or perhaps you have a really busy life and your main loves are Edibles and Succulents. No need to totally unsubscribe from everything. In this case, you can just sign up for those two Alerts. Our system is flexible and you can change your preferences any time you want. Here are the different Alerts for you to consider:
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- Bulb Alert
- Christmas Alert
- Clematis and Cool Vines Alert
- Edible Alert
- Fragrance Alert
- Hardy Subtropical Alert
- Hellebore Alert
- Hot Plant Alert
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NEW! Houseplant Alert
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- Kids Alert
- Made in the Shade Alert
- Mail Order Alert
- Maple and Cool "Woodies" Alert
- Native Plant Alert
- Rare Plant Alert
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NEW! Rose Alert
- Sales & Special Offers Alert
- Small Space Alert
- Succulent Alert
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In this Issue
- Bush Clematis
- Two Ways to Order Clematis
- Main Mail Order Catalogue Launched!
- We're Hiring
- The Great Citrus & Rare Fruit Pre-Order
- The Hydrangea Hysteria Pre-Order
- Summer Bulb and Bare Root Pre-Order
- The Clematis Conundrum Pre-Order
- The Amazing Apple Pre-Order
- The Grafted Veggie Pre-Order
- The Great Rose Pre-Order 2022
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Bush Clematis
Beautiful non-twining cultivars to grow like perennials
What is a clematis that doesn't climb or twine? Well, it's a bush clematis, of course!
Many of us might assume that all clematis are climbing vines but, in fact, there are various species that do not climb at all.
Some are short, stocky plants that grow like upright perennials. These are great for the front or middle of the border. Others have longer stems that can be upright, arching or sprawling. These can be allowed to lean and weave into neighbouring plants, planted close to an upright strong plant or shrub that can support the stems so they remain upright, or the stems can be grown into a supporting structure such as an obelisk or a group of stakes. These cultivars are best for the middle or back of the border.
The flowers of bush clematis are also different from what you’ve come to expect from the genus. They are quite small, often just an inch across, but they are produced in great numbers creating enchanting clouds of beautiful star-like or bell-like flowers than can be outward-facing or nodding. Usually the flowers have four tepals around white or yellowish centres. Many cultivars are reblooming and they often produce attractive fuzzy seed heads.
A further difference from climbing species and cultivars is that bush clematis are herbaceous. They do not maintain twiggy, woody growth through the winter but actually die back to the ground to start fresh in spring. There’s no reason to worry about remembering which pruning group each cultivar belongs to. Bush clematis will remind you what they need each winter. Just clean up the withered stems and watch the new growth emerge in spring
Have fun integrating bush clematis into your garden. And… they also do very well in pots!
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Bush Clematis in the Main Catalogue
(Check out the next article to understand the difference between the Main Catalogue and the Clematis Conundrum Pre-Order)
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'Rain Dance' is a re-blooming bush clematis with glorious shades of blue with contrasting cream centres.
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'Stand By Me Lavender' is a herbaceous bush clematis with lavender purple, bell-shaped flowers which transform into thread-like seed heads.
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'Stand By Me' is a herbaceous bush clematis with blue, bell-shaped flowers which transform into creamy thread-like seed heads.
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'Violet Stardust' is a bush clematis with violet-blue, star-shaped flowers followed by pretty seed heads.
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Clematis heracleifolia 'China Purple' is a non-twining cultivar with stunning dark blue-purple flowers.
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Clematis 'Mongolian Bells' is a seed strain producing non-twining, low-growing clematis plants in a mix of colours.
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Bush Clematis in the Clematis Conundrum Pre-Order
(Check out the next article to understand the difference between the Main Catalogue and the Clematis Conundrum Pre-Order)
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Clematis 'New Love' is a non-climbing bush clematis with fragrant blue flowers.
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Clematis Sapphire Indigo is a profuse bloomer with dark purple-blue flowers throughout the summer on non-clinging stems
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Two Ways To Order Clematis
Order Twice! First from the Clematis Conundrum Pre-Order, then from the Main Catalogue
We have two major offerings of Clematis each season. The first is the Clematis Conundrum Pre-Order featuring 102 different Clematis and passionflowers from our favourite growers offered for April shipping.
The second offering appears in our Main Catalogue of plants grown in our own production facilities for shipping in late May and June.
There will be some overlap between the two offerings but also many different cultivars in each group.
However, please note that these two groups cannot be shipped together because they are ready at very different times. Please place separate orders for each group.*
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CLEMATIS CONUNDRUM PRE-ORDER
102 Choice Clematis and Passionflowers for 2022
Offering a curated selection of the best the world of Clematis has to offer including old favourites, unusual species, and cutting edge new cultivars. This pre-order also includes six types of passionflower, surely the subtropical equivalent to the Queen of the Vines.
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New this year in the Clematis Conundrum Pre-Order |
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Clematis Evison 'Cassis' has stunning double flowers of cream dramatically overlaid with warm purple veins. |
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Clematis Evison 'Elodi' is extremely compact with stems to just 1-2 feet long and dusky pink flowers. |
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Clematis Evison 'Juliane' is from the Boulevard series and grows to just 3-4 feet tall with pure white flowers with burgundy stamens. |
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Clematis Evison 'Ninon' is from the compact Boulevard series and grows to just 4-5 feet tall with lovely pure white flowers with burgundy stamens. |
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Clematis Evison 'Pistachio' is a prolific bloomer producing beautiful white flowers tinged with green from late spring through summer. |
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Clematis Evison 'Shimmer' has large lilac-blue to lilac-purple flowers with a paler central bar. The flowers change to lighter blue as they age. |
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Clematis Evison 'Tsukiko' has stunning ivory white flowers and dark purple stamens. It is extremely free flowering. |
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Clematis Evison 'Bourbon' has large, vibrant red flowers with pink stripes and yellow centres. |
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MAIN CATALOGUE
33 Different Choice Clematis plus 7 Different Bush Clematis
Offering top cultivars from the Evison and Kivistik collections plus other distinctive cutting edge cultivars from top international breeders.
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New this year in the Main Catalogue |
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Clematis 'Blue Light' is a stunning semi-double to double cultivar with violet-blue flowers. |
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Clematis 'Fireflame' has large double flowers of magenta-red with yellow centres on old wood, single on new. Re-bloomer. |
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Clematis 'Marie Louise Jensen' is a repeat bloomer with large double and single flowers in purple shades with contrasting anthers. |
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Clematis Climador 'Konigskind' has 4-6" (10-14cm) mauve-blue cup shaped flowers that are free flowering. |
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Clematis Evison 'Clair de Lune' is a tall, repeat bloomer with large 5-8 inch single flowers of lavender and white flowers. |
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Clematis Evison 'Sarah Elizabeth' is from the compact Boulevard series with distinctive, glowing almost salmon pink flowers. |
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Clematis tangutica Little Lemons is an incredibly dwarf selection with small, pendulous, lemon yellow flowers all summer long. |
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'Stand By Me Lavender' is a herbaceous bush clematis with lavender purple, bell-shaped flowers which transform into thread-like seed heads. |
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Have fun shopping!
*PLEASE DO NOT MIX PRE-ORDERS OR THE MAIN CATALOGUE: The plants in each pre-order are only available for shipping or pick-up during a specific period each year. Orders for each pre-order must be placed separately from other pre-orders and our Main Catalogue. Please do not place mixed orders. Mixed orders will be charged an administrative fee of $5 per pre-order/main catalogue order to cover our costs of separating and organizing your orders. As a rule, all pre-orders and main catalogue orders ship separately due to timing and different packing requirements. In some cases we may be able to combine some pre-orders to ship together if you send us a detailed email listing all of your orders. While we will do our best, we cannot guarantee that any orders will ship together.
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Main Mail Order Catalogue Launched for 2022!
864 Amazing Garden Plants for the Upcoming Season including 300 New Plants!
We are so excited to launch our Main Mail Order Catalogue for the new season. We have so many amazing plants to share with you this year including more than 300 plants that are new to horticulture or new to our mail order catalogue.
IMPORTANT: This year our Pre-Orders have been migrated into our mail order system to make ordering easier. Please DO NOT mix plants from our Main Catalogue with our Pre-Orders and please don't mix Pre-Orders with each other. Orders must be placed separately for our Main Catalogue and for each Pre-Order. These various groups must ship at different times. If you do place mixed orders, we'll need to charge $5 for each separate invoice that ships to you to cover our extra admin time. Thanks for your help and understanding.
We welcome orders for both shipping and pick-up. If you're a pick-up customer, please follow this link to our Plants to the People page and read the "What type of customer are you?" section to understand how your order will be handled and for advice on how to best use the services connected with our mail order site.
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We are truly crazy for plants at Phoenix Perennials so we love anything new and exciting. That's why we've added 300 new plants to our mail order offerings this year!
Most of these are new to horticulture like Delphinium 'Red Lark' pictured here. A few have been available before this year but are making their debut in our mail order catalogue for the first time. We don't know how you will decide which ones to get. We can't decide, so we just grow them all!
Check out our New Plants section to discover all the new possibilities.
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We're Hiring!
A new season is coming and we're looking for some good people to join the Phoenix Perennials team
Phoenix Perennials is a dynamic retail grower and mail order nursery offering over 5000 different plants a year including perennials, shrubs, trees, vines, edibles, succulents, houseplants, and much more. We are a destination nursery within Greater Vancouver and western Canada and growing quickly with mail order sales across the country. We host a full range of special events and workshops (in non-Covid times) and have a diverse and varied digital media presence.
We are looking for some hard working individuals with great, positive attitudes, co-operative natures, and a love of plants to join our team in 2022.
Retail Sales Staff – Full Time or Part Time (with seasonal options) - Do you have good plant knowledge, love to chat about gardening, and are keen to help people create their perfect garden oasis? Are you really organized, enjoy physical work, and would love to keep our retail nursery in order and looking good? We are looking for a talented individual who can help with the organization and maintenance of the retail side of our nursery, keeping plants in their sections and in alphabetical order, designing displays, and helping customers find the plants they're looking for and create their perfect garden oasis. Seasonal positions for just 2-3 months in April, May, and June are also possible.
Office and Mail Order Administrator – Full Time - Are you extremely organized in an office, good with computers and various standard computer programs, fast and efficient with data entry, like answering the phone and emails, enjoy chatting with people, are comfortable doing cash register work, and love keeping paper work in order? We are looking for the right candidate to work in our office to keep us organized and triage the various needs of our local and mail order customers. Good plant knowledge would also be an asset.
Production Manager and Production Staff – Full Time and Part Time (with seasonal options) - Do you love growing plants? We grow a lot of them at Phoenix Perennials! We are looking for fit, fast and motivated people to work on our production side to help us grow a huge range of perennials and other garden plants. Positions could be seasonal for the February to May production season or ongoing through the year and could also involve cross over to our mail order team helping with packing and shipping. We are also looking for a new Production Manager to head up our crazy production side.
Please send a cover letter outlining which job(s) you are interested in, why you are interested in the job(s), your experience and professional goals, and your interest in plants and plant knowledge. Also, please include a resume.
Send to Gary at phoenixperennials [at] shaw.ca. Interviews will run from late January into March.
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The Great Citrus & Rare Fruit Pre-Order
57 Different Citrus | 29 Other Rare Fruit | Avocados Coming Soon!
We are very excited to launch our largest selection ever of Citrus plus a collection of other rare and unusual fruit.
If you're looking for Avocado, you won't find them yet. We hope to add them in March/April once we are able to confirm our supply.
Click the link below to start browsing and shopping! As with last year, quantities will be limited due to Covid-related shortages. Please order early to make sure you get all your favourites.
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The Hydrangea Hysteria
Pre-Order
You'll Go Crazy for these 70 Top Cultivars
Hysteria (noun): 1. A wild uncontrollable emotion or excitement exhibited in gardeners when a state of plant lust becomes uncontrollable. 2. a functional disturbance of the nervous system, of psychoneurotic origin, caused by the presentation of too many amazingly beautiful things, for example the Hydrangea Hysteria Pre-Order at Phoenix Perennials.
The past 10-15 years has seen an incredible number of distinctive and unusual Hydrangea introductions with innovations like the ability to bloom on new wood, dwarf habits, and new flower forms & colours. In this pre-order we assemble a specially curated selection of the best that the Hydrangea world has to offer including many hot new introductions as well as some tried and true classic performers.
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Available for: PICK-UP ONLY. These pots are too big to ship via Canada Post. However, orders of any size can be couriered within the Lower Mainland. Elsewhere in BC we can ship larger orders via freight on pallets to most cities and larger towns. Please select the shipping option when you check out and then place a note in the Notes field that you would like courier or freight service. We will be in touch to let you know the costs.
Estimated Date: May
Mail Order Customers: Don't fret. We've got you covered. This year we will have one of our largest selections ever of mail order-sized Hydrangea in our Main Mail Order Catalogue launching early in the year.
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Summer Bulb and Bare Root Pre-Order Launched!
Choose from 454 different bulbs and bare root to bloom in late spring, summer and fall plus edibles and houseplants
We are very excited to launch the largest of our spring pre-orders! And it is bigger than ever with a huge selection of gorgeous bulbs and bare root for your garden and patio.
Though there are 454 different plants available, many are only available in small quantities and last year many, many items sold out. So don't delay. Please order soon.
Scroll down to learn about the highlights of this year's pre-order plus the many new additions!
Also, when placing your order, please do not mix this order for bulbs and bare root with plants from other pre-orders like hellebores, apples, clematis, etc. Please place separate orders for each pre-order.
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The Clematis Conundrum Pre-Order
102 Choice Clematis & Passionflowers for 2022
So many Clematis and passionflowers, so little time and space! But diversity is where the excitement comes from in gardening and plant collecting. And you know we are here to overwhelm you with beauty, rarity, novelty, and choice!
We are pleased to launch this year's instalment of the Clematis Conundrum Pre-Order featuring 96 different Clematis and 6 different passionflowers for your gardens for pick-up or shipping in April. Follow the link below to start shopping!
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The Amazing Apple Pre-Order
59 Heirloom, Red Flesh, and Dwarf Varieties for Pick-Up in March/April 2022
We are pleased to launch a brand new pre-order featuring rare heirloom and red flesh apples along with trees for small spaces including modern varieties grafted onto dwarf and mini-dwarf rootstock and columnar cultivars. All of these apples should be hardy to zone 4. Most will require another different apple as a pollenizer so we recommend planting more than one apple in your garden. However, if your neighbours have apple or crabapple trees, these can also act as pollenizers.
Red flesh apples are among the most intriguing and popular cultivars among apple collectors. They are crosses of red fleshed crabapples from Central Asia with white fleshed commercial apples. The resultant cultivars have flesh that ranges from soft pink to bright pink to bright red. Some cultivars have a mix of white and red throughout the flesh. Their blooms are also often pink or dark pink. As with all apples, each red flesh cultivar has its own particular flavour, aroma, and balance of sweetness and tartness. Red flesh apples can be used for fresh eating but they become particularly fun for use in pies, and for apple sauce and ciders!
Heirloom Apples: We are excited to offer a wide range of heritage apples from Europe and North America, many of which are hundreds of years old. These apples connect us with gardeners and apple lovers as far back as the 1600s but also offer us fun and unusual shapes, colours, textures and flavours for fresh eating and to play with in the kitchen.
Dwarf, Mini-Dwarf, and Columnar Apples: These mostly modern cultivars offer sizes and shapes that fit better into our smaller gardens but still provide great production.
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The Grafted Veggie Pre-Order
Choose from 33 different veggies including Mighty Matos, Mighty Melons, Mighty Veggies and Ketchup 'n Fries!
Welcome to our Grafted Veggie Pre-Order offering hand-grafted edible plants that will produce at least 2-3 times more fruit and offer more disease resistance and cold tolerance than own-root veggies.
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Choose from 33 different grafted edibles. |
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Help Us Support
Food Banks BC
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$1 from each pre-ordered grafted plant will be donated to Food Banks BC to help improve food security in our communities.
Thank you for your pre-order!
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The Great Rose Pre-Order 2022
70 Amazing Roses for your Garden
We are very excited to launch a large and diverse selection of roses for 2022. We have combined our David Austin and Select Roses pre-orders into one large pre-order that will include our full rose selection for 2022. This summer we are launching our main selection but more roses will be added. Weeks tree roses will be added this fall and more David Austin roses will be launched this fall/winter once our orders are confirmed.
We are pleased to let you know that we have secured new growers that should ensure a more reliable supply of roses compared with 2021 and we have gained extra assurances from our previous rose suppliers of a more secure supply going forward. We hope that from 2022 onwards we will not see the shortages and disappointment that we all experienced in 2021.
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