Hardy Subtropical Alert
Hot Plant Alert | Rare Plant Alert
Rare & Unusual Hardy Subtropicals Just In!
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We are very excited to have just received a shipment from our friend Ian and The Desert Northwest Nursery in Washington State.
Ian grows an amazing selection of cool and unusual hardy subtropical shrubs including bottlebrushes,
Grevillea
, tea trees, succulents, and much more.
Below you'll find a list of the plants we now have in stock from him. Come down to check them out!
Plus don't miss our hidden cone gingers or
Curcuma
now available from our production greenhouses. Pics and info are below.
Cheers, Gary and the Phoenicians
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Tulipa batalinii 'Bright Gem' is a beautiful tulip with shades of yellow, peach, butterscotch and raspberry above narrow, twisted foliage.
Available now for ordering from amongst 265 different Rare Bulbs.
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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 & Unusual Hardy Subtropicals Just In!
Plant these choice shrubs for structure, beauty, and intrigue.
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The following shrubs and succulents offer great evergreen structure and intriguing flowers to the garden. They are proving hardy in the Pacific Northwest and BC if planted in hot, sunny, protected spots with good drainage. Additional winter protection is often recommended such as mulching the base of the shrubs with fallen leaves.
Mexican Lily
Beschorneria descosteriana
Daisy Bush
Brachyglottis monroi
Brachyglottis
x 'Otari Cloud'
Bottlebrush
Callistemon
'Woodlanders Hardy'
Callistemon viridiflorus
Mountain Cottonwood
Cassinia (Ozothamnus) vauvilliersii var albida
California Lilac
Ceanothus
x 'Italian Skies'
Chilean Heather
Fabiana imbricata
var.
violacea
Grevillea
Grevillea
x 'Neil Bell'
Grevillea
x 'The Precious'
Grevillea victoriae
'Marshall Olbrich'
Tea Tree
Leptospermum
'Eugene Hardy'
Leptospermum
sp. aff.
grandiflorum
Leptospermum humifusum
[upright form]
Leptospermum scoparium
'Washington Park'
Tree or Silky Lomatia
Lomatia fraseri
Common Myrtle
Myrtus communis
'Andy Van Helvengen'
Tree Daisy
Olearia
x
capillaris
Olearia moschata
Schott's Yucca
Yucca schottii
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Plus don't miss four cultivars of
Curcuma
or hidden cone gingers that have just come out of our production greenhouses!
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Curcuma 'Indian Surprise' is a spectacular flowering ginger with lush, banana like foliage and pink, white and yellow flowers.
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Curcuma 'Bicolour Wonder' is a spectacular ginger with long-lasting white, pink, and yellow flowers and tropical foliage like a banana.
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Curcuma 'Pink Wonder' is a spectacular ginger with long-lasting white, lavender-pink, and yellow flowers and tropical foliage like a banana.
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Curcuma 'White Wonder' is a spectacular ginger with long-lasting, white, green and yellow flowers and tropical foliage like a banana.
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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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