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Hello Fellow Gardeners! There are so many exciting bulbs available for fall shipping or pick-up through our Rare Bulb offerings - 265 to be exact - that we thought we should introduce you to some of the many highlights between now and fall. In this instalment we highlight daffodils or Narcissus. If you would like to order, full details on pre-ordering Rare Bulbs as well as Cypripedium Lady's Slipper Orchids are below. Our mail order site is now fully updated with all kinds of crazy and fantastic botanical bulbacious wonders, most of which you won't find anywhere else in Canada. Both local and mail order customers can place orders there for pick-up or shipping in the fall. Cheers, Gary and the Phoenicians

Tecophilaea cyanocrocus 'Leichtlinii' Chilean Blue Crocus Tecophilaea cyanocrocus 'Leichtlinii' is a rare form of the Chilean blue crocus with white flowers tipped with rich, sky blue. Available now for ordering from our Rare Bulb offerings.

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Rare Bulb Highlights Beautiful, Dependable Daffodils

Next to tulips, daffodils are probably the second most beloved of the spring bulbs, the proverbial runner up in spring's popularity contest. They do not have the broad colour range of the tulips - which offer nearly every colour under the rainbow - but daffodils do their best with the colours given to them: white, cream, yellow, orange, peach, pink, and green. Despite their more limited colour palette, daffodils have a few things that tulips don't. The genus Narcissus which hails from the Mediterranean with a centre of diversity in Spain and Portugal offers a range of flower forms which are variations on the central, tubular corona surrounded by six petals. The corona could be large or small, flared or narrow and tubular, whole or split, single or bicoloured, and in all cases variously ruffled and taking on any of the colours available to daffodils. The petals can be broad and overlapping or narrow, mostly flat or twisted, large or tiny, flared out at a 90 degree angle to the corona or reflexed backwards, and appear in shades of white, cream, yellow, and, occasionally, bicolours. While tulips are boisterous and colourful, daffodils are mostly demure, understated, elegant, and sophisticated. They add charm to containers or gardens. They are also often fragrant. In the garden, daffodils are easy-to-grow, dependable, and are great performers. Planted in a sunny location their clumps will bulk up over time into stunning spring displays in garden beds or naturalized in fields or on slopes. We are very pleased to offer 15 rare and distinctive Narcissus this year that offer something a little different than your standard daffodils. You can pre-order now for fall pick-up or shipping. Below you can peruse our full selection and then click on the link to order. Enjoy!

Narcissus 'Trepolo' Daffodil Narcissus 'Trepolo' is a dramatic daffodil with white petals and a split corona showing colours of white, yellow and deep orange like a ruffled star.

Large-Flowered Daffodils

Narcissus 'Green Eyed Lady' Daffodil Narcissus 'Green Eyed Lady' is free-flowering with broad creamy petals that mature to clear white, small cups and a green eye.

Narcissus 'Merlin' Daffodil Narcissus 'Merlin' is reminiscent of the poet's daffodil with pure white petals and a small, deep yellow corona with a ruffled, red edge.

Narcissus 'Precocious' Daffodil Narcissus 'Precocious' is a big beautiful daffodil with pure white, rounded petals and a large, ruffled, split corona in glowing salmon pink.

Narcissus 'Roulette' Daffodil Narcissus 'Roulette' has pure white, rounded petals and a ruffled corona sporting shades of yellow, orange and red.

Narcissus 'Sinopel' Daffodil Narcissus 'Sinopel' has flat, ivory flowers maturing to creamy yellow and a shallow cup that changes from yellow in cool weather to green as temperatures warm.

Narcissus 'Trepolo' Daffodil Narcissus 'Trepolo' is a dramatic daffodil with white petals and a split corona showing colours of white, yellow and deep orange like a ruffled star.

Dainty Small-Flowered & Species Daffodils

Narcissus 'Jenny' Narcissus, Daffodil Narcissus 'Jenny' is an elegant daffodil with with white reflexed tepals and long, narrow, yellow coronas that slowly fade to cream.

Narcissus bulbocodium 'Spoirot' Narcissus, Daffodil Narcissus bulbocodium 'Spoirot' has delicate, creamy white flowers with large coronas, much-reduced tepals, and yellow stamens.

Narcissus cyclamineus 'Mother Duck' Daffodil Narcissus cyclamineus 'Mother Duck' is a small daffodil with a long, golden yellow corona and paler yellow reflexed petals with a white central glow in early spring.

Narcissus cyclamineus 'Prototype' Daffodil Narcissus cyclamineus 'Prototype' is a small daffodil with a long, peachy pink corona and creamy yellow reflexed petals.

Narcissus cyclamineus 'Trena' Narcissus, Daffodil Narcissus 'Trena' has narrow, bright yellow coronas and reflexed, pure white tepals.

Narcissus cyclamineus 'Winter Waltz' Daffodil Narcissus cyclamineus 'Winter Waltz' is a small daffodil with a long, muted orange corona and white heavily reflexed petals.

Narcissus jonquilla 'Dickcissel' Apodanthus Daffodil, Jonquil Narcissus jonquilla 'Dickcissel' is a miniature daffodil for late spring with a white corona that bleeds into the yellow petals.

Narcissus triandrus 'Petrel' Narcissus, Daffodil Narcissus triandrus 'Petrel' has delicate, classy and beautiful, pure white, fragrant flowers.

Narcissus triandrus 'Starlight Sensation' Narcissus, Daffodil Narcissus 'Starlight Sensation' has creamy white flowers with 3-5 flowering stems per bulb and 2-4 flowers per stem plus a lovely fruity fragrance.

Start Shopping for Daffodils!

Rare Spring Bulbs 265 Superlative Bulbs, Rhizomes, and Corms

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!

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!

Cypripedium Lady's Slipper Orchids 40 Amazing Hybrids and Species

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:

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.