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Rose Alert | Fragrance Alert | Mail Order Alert
Red Roses for Valentine's Day
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Happy Valentine's Day to you and yours!
Today we celebrate the most romantic colour and the most romantic flower: the red rose. Nothing says love, romance, and maybe even lust and infatuation like a red rose. Below we highlight our selection of red roses in all kinds of red shades available now in our rose pre-order. Take a look. It's hard to not love a red rose.
We also have our full range of pre-orders running now with the recent launches of our succulent and hydrangea pre-orders.
Here is our full list of Pre-Orders:
The Summer Bulb and Bare Root Pre-Order
The Succulent Situation Pre-Order
The Hydrangea Hysteria Pre-Order
The Grafted Veggie Pre-Order
The Great Citrus and Rare Fruit Pre-Order
The Rare Flowering Tree Pre-Order
The Clematis Conundrum Pre-Order
The Hellebore Hurrah! Pre-Order
The Camellia Caramba Pre-Order
The Great Rose Pre-Order
We will now be turning our attention to launching the Main Mail Order Catalogue. Wish us luck! It's the biggest launch of the year with lots and lots of new plants coming your way for 2024.
Cheers, Gary and the Phoenicians
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A new gardening season is about to start! In order to keep offering our diverse selection of plants, we need to continue to reach new gardeners who want to grow them in Greater Vancouver, in BC, and across Canada.
We'd love it if you could share this Alert with your keen gardening friends. Thank you!
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Open now on February weekends Fri-Sun, 10am-4pm.
Full re-opening March 1st, 2024, Seven Days, 10am-5pm.
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Upcoming Garden and Botanical Tours
With the relaxation of Covid travel restrictions, we are looking forward to some amazing tours. Join Gary to explore the horticultural and botanical world up close and personal!
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NEW!
Gardens of the Czech Republic
Registration Now Open
June 23-July 3, 2024 - Main Czech Tour
July 3-7, 2024 - Austria Extension
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The alumni UBC Travel Club
All of Gary's tours are organized as part of the alumni UBC Travel Club. Everyone is welcome to join from the UBC and Phoenix Perennials communities.
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In this Issue
- Red Roses for Valentine's Day
- The Hellebore Hurrah! Pre-Order
- The Succulent Situation Pre-Order
- The Hydraengea Hysteria Pre-Order
- The Great Rose Pre-Order - Fourth Launch
- The Summer Bulb & Bare Root Pre-Order
- The Grafted Veggie Pre-Order
- The Great Citrus and Rare Fruit Pre-Order
- The Rare Flowering Tree Pre-Order
- The Clematis Conundrum Pre-Order
- The Great Rose Pre-Order
- The Camellia Caramba Pre-Order
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Red Roses for
Valentine's Day
Red roses haven't had the following that they once enjoyed over the last couple years as gardeners have embraced softer tones like white, pink, peach, and soft yellows. But what better day to celebrate the richest, hottest, most romantic colour than today on Valentine's Day. So let's celebrate the colour red and the romance of the red rose in all its shades across the various types of roses. Maybe you'll even decide to grow a new red rose bush or climber in your garden this year. Or give a plant to the one you love! Enjoy!
Happy Valentine's Day!
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The Hellebore Hurrah! Pre-Order
64 gorgeous strains and cultivars for pick-up or shipping in spring 2024
Welcome to our Hellebore Hurrah! Pre-Order offering 64 of the best hellebores available in North America including cultivars from the Winter Jewels, Honeymoon, Wedding Party, Ice n' Roses, Gold Collection and Frostkiss series. In addition to these selected cultivars, we will also have more available for in-person shopping at the Hellebore Hurrah! Opening Week starting March 1st, 2024. Mark your calendars!
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The Succulent Situation Pre-Order
230 Rare and Choice Succulents for Pick-Up or Shipping in May 2024
Here it is, succulent fans! It's the 2024 Succulent Situation, your chance to add some cool, unusual, and rare plants to your succulent collection. We are pleased to offer one of the largest and most diverse selections in Canada of plants we have sourced from around the world. There are a number of exciting new succulents available. For now we'll let you explore the new additions but we'll feature them in a future alert. Have fun!
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Hydrangea Hysteria
Pre-Order
You'll Go Crazy for these 115 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.
This year we've really gone crazier than ever with 115 different cultivars. We hope you are excited by these Hydrangea. There are so many great old favourites and so much amazing breeding work pumping out new cultivars all the time. The past 10-15 years have seen an incredible number of distinctive and unusual Hydrangea introductions with innovations like the ability to bloom/rebloom 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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New Cultivars
There are some exciting brand new cultivars available this year. We also highlight a few other new introductions from last year that we think remain exciting.
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Available for: Pick-Up Recommended. Shipping is possible with Canada Post/Fed Ex for 1 gallon and 2 gallon pots though we may have to increase shipping charges to cover our costs, depending on your order and the number of boxes required. We have shipped 3g and 5g pots but we don't recommend it. Standard/Tree form plants cannot be shipped with Canada Post/Fed Ex. We can also arrange courier shipping within Metro Vancouver or freight shipping on pallets for larger orders to most locations in Canada. For mail order customers, there will also be Hydrangea available in small pots when we launch the Main Catalogue in February.
Estimated Date: April/May
Plant Details: Most plants in this pre-order are in 2 gallon, 3 gallon, and 5 gallon pots with a few 1g and 15g pots available. Some cultivars are available in two or three different sizes but most are available only in one size.
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The Summer Bulb & Bare Root Pre-Order
For Pick-Up or Shipping in March and April 2024
Welcome to the Summer Bulb and Bare Root Pre-Order featuring 562 different bulbs, corms, rhizomes, bare root plants, and some potted plants that will bloom in late spring, summer, and fall. This pre-order includes categories for ornamentals, edibles, plants well-suited as houseplants, super hardy plants for zones 1-4, and rare South African bulbs along with some of their more familiar South African friends. More additions to this category are forthcoming including Boophone, Crossyne, and more rare South African treasures we have never offered before!
This is our most diverse pre-order with plants flying in from around the world including India, South Africa, Japan, Canada, and various sources in the US and Europe.
In order to keep bringing you such a diverse and unreasonably large selection of plants, we need to keep reaching new gardeners. Please let your gardening friends and family know about us! Thank you!
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The Grafted Veggie
Pre-Order
Choose from 20 different Mighty Matos and 5 different Mighty Veggie Peppers
Welcome to our Grafted Veggie Pre-Order offering hand-grafted edible plants that will produce at least 2-3 times more fruit than own-root veggies with more disease resistance, cold tolerance, and longer seasons of production. With good fertilizing, many customers get 50-100 pounds from a single plant! These plants are revolutionary and worth it, especially for small spaces. Grow them in the ground or in large pots (10 gallon and up).
This year we are pleased to offer Mighty Matos and Mighty Veggie peppers including many new, exciting, and tasty varieties.
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Here's this year's line-up!
Mighty Matos
Artemis - New!
Beefsteak
Berkeley Tie Dye Green - New!
Berkeley Tie Dye Pink - New!
Black Krim
Bloody Butcher - New!
Brandywine Red (Sudduth)
Cherokee Carbon - New!
Copia - New!
Crokini - New!
Early Girl
Indigo Cherry Drops - New!
Indigo Pear Drops - New!
Momotaro - New!
Orange Icicle - New!
Orange Paruche - New!
San Marzano
Sun Sugar
Sungold - New!
Sweet Million
Mighty Peppers
California Wonder - New!
Jalapeno
Mellow Star - New!
Orange Sun - New!
Purple Star - New!
As the Grafted Veggie Program stabilizes after pandemic-related challenges, we hope that we'll be able to add cucumbers, melons, and eggplants plus Ketchup n' Fries back into the pre-order for next year. Keep your fingers crossed.
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The Great Citrus and Rare Fruit Pre-Order
300+ Amazing Edible Plants including 97 Different Citrus!
We are excited to offer by far our largest Citrus selection ever - 97 different varieties - one of the largest in Canada. Citrus are a relatively easy-to-grow and rewarding group of plants that can be grown by all Canadians as long as you have a a sunny outdoor spot for summer and a good, bright place indoors for the winter. Beyond classic favourites like Meyer lemons, navel oranges, blood oranges, key limes, and Thai limes, we also have a number of cultivars of mandarins, kumquats, yuzu, and sudachi that are hardy in zones 7 or 8. They can be grown outdoors year round in coastal BC in protected microclimates.
These Citrus are joined by a few hundred other rare and choice fruits including avocados, paw paws, persimmons, passionfruit, figs, olives, mulberries, pineapple guavas, guavas, kiwi, tea, papaya, dragon fruit, jujubes, honey berries, medlars, goji berries, bananas, pomegranates, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, currants, elderberries, and more.
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The Rare Flowering Tree Pre-Order
56 Rare and Choice Trees for Small and Medium Sized Gardens
We are very pleased to offer a select group of gorgeous flowering trees focused on maples, dogwoods, and magnolias with a few additional surprises for pick-up or shipping in spring 2024. These trees are perfect for small and medium sized gardens and some could even grow in large pots!
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11 Different Types of Dogwoods | |
8 Different Types of Maples | |
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The Clematis Conundrum Pre-Order
189 Choice Clematis, Passionflowers, and other Vines for 2024
Welcome to our Clematis Conundrum Pre-Order 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 passionflowers, honeysuckles, jasmines, star jasmines, and more!
The Clematis Conundrum is the first of two Clematis offerings each year. The second group of Clematis will be part of our Main Catalogue for shipping in June. This selection will include Evison Clematis, including 'Josephine', and other choice cultivars. This selection will launch in early 2024.
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The Great Rose
Pre-Order 2024
206 Roses including 60 New Cultivars!
We are excited to begin offering pre-orders on our largest selection of roses ever for the 2024 season! Roses will be available in various launches as we receive confirmations from our growers:
1st Launch: August 2023 - 113 different cultivars including David Austin, Brad Jalbert, Meilland, Kordes and other roses. In all there are 59 new roses to discover!
2nd Launch: Early Fall 2023 - Patio Tree and Standard Tree Roses
3rd Launch: Late Fall/Early Winter 2023 - More David Austin, Kordes, Meilland, Jalbert and other top roses
4th Launch: January 9th, 2024 - 17 David Austin cultivars added plus others back in stock!
5th Launch: There might be a fifth launch of rare and uncommon roses. We're working on it now and hoping to launch in February.
To be the first to know when a launch occurs, sign up for the Rose Alert.
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The Camellia Caramba Pre-Order Launched!
33 exquisite cultivars for 2024
Welcome to the second year of the Camellia pre-order celebrating this wonderful fall-, winter-, and spring-blooming evergreen shrub or tree. Camellias have long inspired gardeners with their exquisite and varied single, semi-double, and double flowers in shades of white, pink, coral, red, and yellow plus bicolours. The sasanqua types begin to bloom in the fall and continue through winter with delicate, fragrant flowers. The larger-flowered japonica types begin to bloom in late winter and early spring. Some hybrids bloom in the middle of winter. They are an amazing group of woody plants to keep colour going in the garden or on the patio when few other plants are blooming - except perhaps hellebores which make a great underplanting! While most Camellia are hardy to just zones 7 and 8, a few are hardy into zone 6. In colder zones they can be grown in a cool greenhouse or sunroom protected from freezing. Have fun!
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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
- Houseplant Alert
- Kids Alert
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- Made in the Shade Alert
- Mail Order Alert
- Maple and Cool "Woodies" Alert
- Native Plant Alert
- Rare Plant Alert
- Rose Alert
- Sales & Special Offers Alert
- Small Space Alert
- Succulent Alert
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