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Mid January 2025

The Hellebore Hurrah! 

Opening Week

Begins February 28th, 2025

WORKSHOP

Hellebore Containers To Die For

Saturday March 1st, 2025, 10am-12pm

Hellebores are beautiful and inspiring perennials that bloom in winter and early spring with a wide range of colours, flower forms, and foliage types. Learn how to combine them artistically with a pallet of winter and spring interest plants and bulbs to create knock out seasonal containers to grace your front door, patio, and garden. Then plant up your own container to take home!

We're Hiring!

Office Staff – Full Time – Are you organized, good on a computer, and would love to help in the office in our mail order and pre-order department? You’d be in the office helping with our online orders and shipping and doing customer service by email and by phone. You may also be outside or in our greenhouses assembling and preparing orders for pick-up and shipping. We’re looking for an efficient, detail-oriented, resilient person who loves a fast-paced environment.

Production Staff – Full Time and Part Time (with seasonal options) - Do you love growing plants? 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. 

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 gardeners 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 talented individuals who can help with the organization and maintenance of the retail side of our nursery while helping customers with enthusiasm and knowledge. Seasonal positions for just 2-3 months in April, May, and June are also possible.

Please send your resume and a cover letter. In the cover letter please outline your experience and professional goals, your interest in plants, and your degree of plant knowledge. Send to Gary at phoenixperennials@shaw.ca.

The Hours for Flowers Volunteer Program

Are you looking to volunteer in a beautiful setting with lots of great plants and friendly people? Are you interested in learning about plants and expanding your garden knowledge? We could use your help to do different tasks around the nursery like watering, caring for plants, weeding, helping with pre-orders, and general organization. We ask for a minimum of three hours once a week but you can do more if you like.

For more information, send us an email.

We are now closed for the winter season except by appointment. Please email us. 

We will reopen with the Hellebore Hurrah! Opening Week on February 28th, 2025

In this Issue

1. Please Help Us Grow
2. All About Hellebores
3. LAUNCHED! The Hydrangea Hysteria Pre-Order
4. The Summer Bulb Pre-Order
5. The Grafted Veggie Pre-Order
6. The Great Citrus Pre-Order
7. The Rare Flowering Tree Pre-Order
8. The Clematis Conundrum Pre-Order
9. The Hellebore Hurrah! Pre-Order
10. The Great Rose Pre-Order
11. Ground Cover Book Updates

Please Help Us Grow

It’s the start of a new gardening season and we are looking forward to sharing it with you.

If you love what we are doing at Phoenix Perennials, we would greatly appreciate it if you would take the time to forward this email to your gardening friends and family and let them know about our nursery.

The more we grow, the more we are able to offer. 

Yes! That means more plants!

With a growing customer base, we can grow an even larger selection of plants. Even now I have to hold back on so many plants from suppliers around the world that I would love to grow and offer to you! And what fun is restraint? :-)

Thanks so much for your support!

Gary and the Phoenicians

All About Hellebores

Every garden should be filled with these jewels of the winter and spring garden

Hellebores are an incredible group of evergreen perennials for gardeners from zone 3 to zone 9. In warmer zones, they are winter- and early spring-blooming plants providing colour from late November through April. In colder zones, they bloom in late winter and early spring as soon as the snow melts. In any zone they provide interest when most other plants are soundly dormant bringing forth the first major burst of perennial colour for the season. 

The Lenten rose, Helleborus x hybridus, comes in the widest range of colours and flower forms.

The Christmas rose, Helleborus niger, is the first to bloom. In mild winter climates it could even be considered a late season bloomer since new cultivars can begin blooming in November and December. In colder regions they bloom as soon as the snow melts. They are followed by many new hybrids including the Frostkiss Series, the Helleborus Gold Collection, the Ice ‘n Roses Series, and rare hybrids such as ‘Rosemary’ and ‘Mme Lemmonier’. Next come the Lenten roses, Helleborus x hybridus, which offer the widest range of colours, flower detailing, and flower forms.

There are hellebores that are better in shade. There are others that are better in sun. Some are great in containers. Others are best in the ground. There are plants with outward-facing flowers and plants with nodding flowers.

All hellebores are easy to grow, long-blooming, and most are long-lived, especially the Lenten roses which can last for decades and even up to a human lifetime. Hellebores bulk up over time getting bigger each year and putting on more and more impressive displays for months on end. Their evergreen foliage makes them useful plants year-round. In all, hellebores are simply one of the most important and useful genera in the perennial garden.

The Christmas Rose

The Christmas Rose, Helleborus niger, has a long tradition of use in the cultures of northern Europe where the plants were brought indoors during the Christmas season to decorate the house. Their pure white blooms and central cluster of golden yellow stamens seemed the perfect accent for the holiday season and to brighten the house and garden during the darkest days of the year.

The Christmas rose has quite dark green, leathery leaves and flowers that are outward-facing. In mild winter climates it usually comes into bud and bloom from late November to mid December continuing into the new year. In colder climates the Christmas rose will bloom as soon as the snow melts.

The Helleborus Gold Collection has revolutionized the Christmas Rose with numerous cultivars all starting with the letter “J” that are particularly robust in both foliage and flowers. The bloom time for these plants can run from December to April! Each cultivar has its own valuable attributes. ‘Jacob’ is the original with a subtle fragrance and good tolerance for being brought into the house. ‘Jonas’ and ‘Jesko’ are also good for this purpose. ‘Jonas’ possesses a few extra petals giving it a fuller look. ‘Josef Lemper’ is the largest-growing of the HGC Christmas roses and is best in the landscape.

The Christmas rose is the hardiest of the hellebores. Reports from northern Ontario and Alberta suggest that H. niger is hardy to zone 4a for sure but probably to zone 3a with a good thick mulch of leaves and good snow cover.

The Christmas rose, Helleborus niger, has icy white flowers embossed with golden stamens. The flowers are mostly outward-facing and bloom in the winter on either side of Christmas in mild climates or as soon as the snow melts in colder climates.

The Stemmed Hybrids or Snow Roses

In recent years an entirely new hybrid group has been developed from the caulescent or stemmed species from the Mediterranean (H. lividus and H. argutifolius) crossed with the Christmas rose, H. niger, which hails from Switzerland, southern Germany, northern Italy and east to Croatia. H. foetidus, the stinking hellebore, has also been used in some crosses.

These intergeneric hybrids offer leathery leaves on which sit clusters of outward-facing flowers mostly in shades of white, cream, pink, and dusty rose. These hybrids are more tolerant of full sun and also do well in pots or the ground whereas the Lenten roses prefer part sun to shade and don’t enjoy pots for more than a few years.

Cultivars from the Ice ‘n Roses series in a display garden at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show.

The first cultivar to make waves of this new hybrid group was Ivory Prince but more recently the Helleborus Gold Collection has introduced many superlative cultivars that have captured the imaginations of gardeners and designers.

Since then the Lenten roses have been crossed into this stemmed hybrid group — a feat previously thought to be impossible — producing outward-facing flowers that sit on top of incredibly mottled foliage in deep, bold colours once the exclusive domain of Helleborus x hybridus. These new hybrids are known as the Frostkiss series. A few years later the Ice ‘n Roses series followed, the results of a similar cross. These are huge plants with outward-facing flowers sometimes reaching nearly two feet tall and sitting above very large and very dark green leaves. These new series are continuing a long tradition of innovation in hellebores that continues to greatly benefit the gardening world. Even more recent breeding work has introduced beautiful mottled leaves to the Ice 'n Roses series with a range of cultivars all with "Marble" in the name.



The stemmed or snow roses are usually listed as zone 5 hardy. However, gardeners are having success in zone 4 where they are protected by a good mulch of fallen leaves and good snow cover.

The Frostkiss series offers a range of flower colours atop beautifully mottled foliage.

The Ice ‘n Roses series offers the largest of all hellebore hybrids with huge leaves and large flowers that can bloom on stems to 1.5 feet tall. The leaves are solid very dark green. However, new breeding work is bringing us the marbled Ice ‘n Roses cultivars with mottled foliage like the Frostkiss series.

The Lenten Rose

The Lenten rose, Helleborus x hybridus, is the last group of hellebores to bloom. In coastal BC the buds usually form in late January opening usually in mid to late February. Flowering continues into April and sometimes May.

In colder zones the Lenten roses will bloom in early spring after the Christmas and Snow roses. Helleborus x hybridus is usually listed as zone 5 but many gardeners in zone 4 have been having success with a good mulch of fallen leaves and good snow cover. Some gardeners are even blooming Lenten roses in zone 3! Our former production manager now lives in Winnipeg where she successfully grows and blooms Winter Jewels hellebores. In fall she mulches the plants with a deep pile of fallen leaves and then places an upside down styrofoam cooler over top of them. Then, through the winter she shovels snow off of her patio over top of the hellebores creating a deep insulating mound. In the spring she is rewarded for her efforts with beautiful flowers.

A beautiful pink Lenten rose at the Miller Botanical Garden in Seattle surrounded by the blue flowers of Omphalodes verna.

A close-up of a luscious grape purple Lenten Rose at the Miller Botanical Garden in Seattle.

H. x hybridus offers the largest colour range and the most diverse flower forms of all hellebores with nearly every colour of the rainbow and single, semi-double, and double forms. Most Lenten roses are grown from seed strains which has the benefit of producing an incredible diversity of flower colours and patterns - even within a single strain - that are well worth collecting. There are other cultivars that are tissue cultured so that every plant is identical.

Double hellebores from the Winter Jewels and Wedding Party series offer early spring confections for the garden.

Single hellebores from the Winter Jewels and Honeymoon series offer a diverse range of colours with their lovely, simple, five-petaled form. Some are semi-double or anemone centred with a ruffle of small petals at the centre of the flower.

Cultivation

Hellebores are easy to grow in most garden situations. They prefer evenly moist but well-drained soils but are tolerant of drier conditions once established. An annual top dressing of two to three inches of compost in winter or early spring is all hellebores really need for fertilizer as long as you’ve started with reasonably good soil. You can also fertilize with an organic fertilizer or a conventional slow release fertilizer. There are two times of the year when you should fertilizer hellebores. The first is towards the end of the flowering period when plants begin to grow new foliage and plantlets within the clump. Fertilizer at this time will encourage strong new growth and bigger, fuller clumps. The other time to fertilize is in the fall. In September and October hellebores begin to initiate buds deep down in their crowns. Fertilizer at this time of year will encourage more flowers in the winter and spring.

Helleborus x hybridus can be grown in full shade but will grow the fastest and have the most flowers in part shade to part sun. A situation with morning sun is ideal. Where the soils are rich and evenly moist, these hellebores can also be grown successfully in relatively full sun though protection from the hottest sun of the day in the afternoon is advisable. The stemmed hellebores such as H. foetidus, H. argutifolius and the hybrids x nigercors, x ballardiae, x sternii, and x ericsmithii as well as the Frostkiss and Ice ‘n Roses series prefer more sun and do best in part to full sun situations. If not given enough light they can become floppy and will require staking. They could also be shorter lived if planted in shade.

The nodding flowers of Lenten roses have beautifully coloured and often detailed petal reverses. Even though you can’t look into the face of the flowers without lifting the flower upwards, the plants still produce a beautiful display in the garden.

At blooming time, many gardeners will remove last year’s leaves from the H. x hybridus types so as to see the flowers better. The plants do not require their leaves to be removed. It is an aesthetic choice. However, removal of the leaves might help to decrease the incidence of pests such as aphids and fungus, if these are an issue. Normally, it is best not to remove the leaves of young plants since the leaf is photosynthesizing even in winter and spring and making the plant stronger. Once plants are established, the foliage can be removed each spring if desired. Established plants won’t even notice the loss of their leaves. In the case of the stemmed hybrids and snow roses, the foliage is usually not removed at the time of flowering, unless it has been damaged in the winter.

During the Hellebore Hurrah! Opening Week every year we offer 70-100 different kinds of hellebores plus lots of early season perennials, bulbs, and shrubs. Mark your calendars!

Pests: Hellebores are usually problem-free in the garden. The older flowers and new growth can sometimes attract green aphids. These should be washed off with a jet of water from the hose or sprayed with an environmentally friendly insecticide like insecticidal soap or a formulation containing pyrethrins such as End All. Aphids secrete a sweet honeydew and if left too long it can become a site for fungus such as botrytis and sooty moulds. These can also be washed off or leaves can be removed. Aphids are also thought to be a vector for some viruses affecting hellebores. These viruses are not common but it’s best to remove aphids when they occur. Slugs will sometimes visit hellebore flowers. Use an environmentally friendly bait such as Safer’s Slug Bait during the flowering season.

That’s all you need to know about hellebores to be successful in your garden! Go forth and plant!

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LAUNCHED!

The Hydrangea Hysteria 

Pre-Order 2025

You’ll go crazy for these 87 different hydrangea for spring 2025

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.

Welcome to the Hydrangea Hysteria Pre-Order! 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 hot new introductions as well as some tried and true classic performers.

Hydrangea arborescens ‘Candybelle Bubblegum’ is a dwarf smooth hydrangea with domed white and pink umbels.

Hydrangea arborescens ‘Pink Pinchushion’ is a pink smooth hydrangea with domes of fuzzy pink and white fertile flowers.

Hydrangea Invincibelle Lace is the first ever lacecap smooth hydrangea with gorgeous flowers on red stems.

Hydrangea macrophylla BloomChampion Mysterious Blue has stunning multicoloured double florets on compact plants.

Hydrangea macrophylla BloomChampion Mysterious Pink has stunning multicoloured double florets on compact plants.

Hydrangea macrophylla BloomChampion Vibrant Verde has tricolour florets that are either pink or blue with white and green.

Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Eclipse’ is a bigleaf hydrangea with black leaves topped with pink, red, and white flowers.

Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Grin and Tonic’ is a dwarf, reblooming bigleaf hydrangea with green flowers aging to white.

Hydrangea macrophylla Wee Bit Innocent is a compact mophead offering soft shades of blue, purple or light pink.

Hydrangea paniculata Pinky Winky Prime is a large panicle hydrangea with huge conical flower heads in white and red.

Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Little Honey’ is a striking oakleaf hydrangea with golden foliage and white summer flowers.

Hydrangea serrata Tuff Stuff Top Fun is a sturdy mountain hydrangea with pink to purple lacecaps hardy to zone 4.

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The Summer Bulb 

Pre-Order

400 Glorious Summer and Fall Blooming Bulbs & Bare Root

Welcome to the Summer Bulb and Bare Root Pre-Order featuring 280 different bulbs, corms, rhizomes, bare root plants, and some potted plants that will bloom in late spring, summer, and fall. This pre-order includes ornamentals, edibles, plants well-suited as houseplants, and rare South African bulbs along with some of their more familiar South African friends.

Hot and New

We are pleased to bring you one of the most unique plants we've offered in a very long time: the calla lily 'Frozen Queen'.

With her translucent, silvery-white leaves, ‘Frozen Queen’ is one of the most unique plants you’ll ever see. The leaves are not just variegated with dramatic areas of white edged variably with green. You can actually see through them! When you hold a leaf, you’ll be able to see your fingers straight on through.

If that wasn’t enough, ‘Frozen Queen’ will bloom for two months with gorgeous raspberry-red, funnel-shaped flowers that contrast dramatically with the foliage.

Highlights from the Pre-Order

Dahlia

80 amazing Dahlias for bold summer colour

Rare South African Bulbs

Be one of the few people in the world to grow these rare bulbs!

Arisaema

20 different cobra lilies for botanical intrigue in the shade garden plus other aroids like Amophophallus

Hardy Gladiolus

9 different glads hardy to zone 5!

Hedychium

11 different hardy gingers for subtropical flare

Lilies

54 different lilies for colour, beauty and fragrance all through the summer

Guernsey Lilies

11 different Nerine for fall colour in the sunny garden

Calla Lilies

9 different calla lilies including the new ‘Frozen Queen’ and ‘Peach Pearl’

Bearded Iris



22 different bearded iris in a rainbow of colours

Edibles

Gourmet potatoes plus asparagus, horseradish, mushrooms and more.

The Grafted Veggie Pre-Order

For pick-up or shipping in May 2025

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 tomato 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).

Back by Popular Demand

‘Brad’s Atomic Grape’ produces amazing clusters of large, multi-coloured, elongated cherry tomatoes striped with lavender, purple, green, brown, orange, yellow, red, and black!

‘Epic’ (‘Dusky’) offers plump, oval, purple-black eggplants that can be picked at 3-5 inches long or harvested when fully mature at 8-10 inches long.

New Grafted Veggies

‘Big Bertha’ is a delicious elongated bell pepper with fruit that can be seven inches long – the longest of any cultivar!

‘Candy Cane Chocolate Cherry’ is a stunning mini bell pepper with both variegated foliage and fruit! 

An improved King Arthur type bell peppe, ‘Red Knight’ is an early-maturing, high quality, blocky bell pepper with a sweet, fruity flavour bred to be eaten red when ripe at 77 days but can also be eaten green at 57 days.

‘Mad Hatter’ is a crazy, exotic pepper offering new flavours for your summer cooking! It is a relative of our garden pepper known as C. baccatum from South America commonly used in Bolivian and Peruvian cuisines. 

‘Katrina’ produces an early to midseason crop of small, slender, high quality, nicely ribbed cucumbers on compact plants.

‘Big Brandy’ is a cross between two top heirloom tomatoes: the famous ‘Brandywine’ and ‘Big Dwarf’. 

‘Black Pear’ is a distinctive Siberian heirloom tomato with pear shaped fruit that is rich red on the bottom with mahogany-black shoulders.

‘Chocolate Cherry’ is a delicious burgundy red cherry tomato with excellent sweetness combined with deeper, richer flavours than a typical cherry.

‘Harvest Moon’ is a gorgeous modern tomato in an heirloom style. It produces beautiful, firm, consistently sized (7-10 oz.), golden fruits often flushed with red on the skin.

‘Japanese Black Trifele’ is one of the favourite tomatoes from the days when we used to do tomato tastings at the nursery. 

‘Pruden’s Purple’ produces juicy, dark reddish-pink fruits with a luscious, well-balanced sweet and tart flavour.

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LAUNCHED!

The Great Citrus & Rare Fruit Pre-Order

383 Amazing Edible Plants for Pick-Up or Shipping in May/June 2025

We are excited to offer our largest selection ever of Citrus – 106 different varieties! Beyond classic favourites, we have many rare varieties and many that can be grown outdoors year round in coastal BC in protected microclimates.

Our Citrus are joined by 277 other rare and choice fruits including avocados, paw paws, persimmons, passionfruit, figs, olives, mulberries, pineapple guavas, guavas, kiwi, tea, papaya, dragon fruit, jujubes, honeyberries, medlars, goji berries, pomegranates, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, currants, elderberries, and more.

Highlights from the Great Citrus & Rare Fruit Pre-Order

Kiwi Fruit

15 different tasty and intriguing kiwi fruit, some hardy to zone 3!

Saskatoons

Five different Saskatoon berry cultivars for cold climate gardeners.

Paw Paws

14 different paw paws for tropical fruit flavours in temperate climates.

Tea Plants

25 different named cultivars of tea camellia.

Citrus

106 different types of citrus.

Persimmon

After a long hiatus due to Covid-related production issues we have 21 different persimmon available for 2025!

Pineapple Guava

9 different types of Feijoa.

Figs

14 different kinds of figs.

Honeyberries/Haskaps

11 different types of honeyberries/haskaps.

Mulberries

9 different kinds of mulberries.

Olives

21 different types of olives.

Maypops

4 different kinds of Passiflora incarnata or maypop.

Avocado

11 different types of avocado.

Pomegranates

11 different kinds of pomegranates.

Currants

11 different types of white, pink, black, red, and clove currants.

Rubus

13 different kinds of raspberries, blackberries, and relatives.

Dragon Fruit

8 different types of dragon fruit cactus.

Jujubes

5 different kinds of jujubes.

And much more!

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Rare Flowering Tree 

Pre-Order

90 Amazing Trees for Canadian Gardens

We are very pleased to offer a select group of rare and choice flowering trees focused on maples, dogwoods, and magnolias with a few additional surprises including Camellia, redbuds, and more!

Highlights from the Rare Flowering Tree Pre-Order

Maples

Maples offer year round beauty that changes through the seasons. This year we offer our largest selection ever with 23 different cultivars including some real rarities and cutting edge cultivars.

Dogwoods

Dogwoods offer superb beauty with layered branches of gorgeous flowers. Choose from 14 different cultivars.

Magnolia

Few trees are as beautiful as a magnolia in spring. Choose from 20 of the world's best cultivars plus some rarities and species.

Camellia

This year Camellia join this pre-order rather than having their own. But these cultivars are more rare and more shippable in 1 gallon pots. Choose from 10 different kinds.

Unusual and Rare Trees

As always, we are excited to bring you some real rarities and oddballs plus some continuing favourites.

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Clematis Conundrum

Pre-Order

187 Choice Clematis, Passionflowers, and other Vines for 2025

Welcome to our Clematis Conundrum Pre-Order offering 187 different Clematis including old favourites, unusual species, and cutting edge new cultivars plus other choice vines like passionflowers, honeysuckles, jasmines, star jasmines, and more!



This year all of our Clematis come together in a single offering in this pre-order, not in two offerings (pre-order and main catalogue) as in previous years. Have fun exploring all the possibilities in one place!

IMPORTANT ORDERING INFO



Please note that your customer details from our old website will not carry over to the new website. You'll need to create a new username and password and enter your contact details again.

If you have a gift certificate or credit on your old account, please let us know after you place your first order so that we can apply it to your new account.

Hellebore Hurrah! 

Pre-Order

60 Hellebores for shipping or pick-up in March/April 2025

Welcome to our Hellebore Hurrah! Pre-Order offering 60 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 plus 14 hot new cultivars. In addition to these selected cultivars, we will also have more available for in-person shopping at the Hellebore Hurrah! Opening Week starting February 28th, 2025. Mark your calendars! To keep up to date on additions plus articles on hellebores, sign up for the Hellebore Alert.

Highlights from the Hellebore Pre-Order

Double Hellebores

The double hellebores from the Winter Jewels and Wedding Party Series offer incredible beauty for the late winter and spring garden with their many layers of petals. The Lenten roses are good for shade to part sun.

Single & Anemone-Centred Hellebores

The single hellebores offer simplicity in form but not in colour or detailing! These vibrant and beautiful flowers will lighten up your early spring days. The Lenten roses are good for shade to part sun.

The Ice 'n Roses Series

The robust plants of the Ice 'N Roses series have big flowers and big, dark green foliage. Sometimes referred to as snow roses, they can begin to bloom in December or January and prefer full to part sun.

The Frostkiss Series

The gorgeous plants of the Frostkiss Series have beautiful flowers that begin to bloom in December or January and have awesome mottled foliage that continues the show for the rest of the year. Sometimes referred to as snow roses, they can begin to bloom in December or January and prefer full to part sun.

Christmas Roses

The pure white Christmas roses bloom from December to April and are great for holiday decoration. Plant in part sun to part shade. These are the hardiest of the hellebores and can be grown in zone 3 with protection.

New Series from Europe

Introducing the first cultivars from the Frozen and Glamour series from Europe. These beautifies are ready to make their North American debut.

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The Great Rose 

Pre-Order 2025

227 Spectacular Roses for Beauty and Fragrance

We are very pleased to offer pre-ordering for our full selection of roses for the 2025 season. In previous years we have launched in stages as we have received solid confirmations from our suppliers. But now that production has stabilized since the tumult of the pandemic, we can now be much more secure in our supply for the new year allowing you to order from more than 200 different roses starting from this first launch. 

We still hope to have a few surprise additions later in the fall and winter so make sure you're signed up for the Rose Alert to be the first to know!

This year you'll find some beautiful new roses including 'Tottering-by-Gently' from David Austin, 'Perfume Factory', 'Perfume Delight', and 'Sugar Moon' for amazing fragrance, 'Dmitri Hvorostovksy' from Brad Jalbert, and an expanded selection of patio tree and standard tree roses. Have fun!

New 35th Anniversary Roses from Select Roses

Be the first in the world to grow them!

Highlights from the Rose Pre-Order

David Austin Tree Roses

Classic English style with beauty & fragrance

David Austin

Classic English style with beauty & fragrance

Brad Jalbert

Gorgeous, BC bred & disease resistant

Super Hardy

22 Garden & Itoh Peonies

Tree Roses

Make a statement with standard and patio trees

Climbing Roses

Go vertical with beauty and fragrance

Container Roses

Grow the Veranda & Sunblaze series in pots

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The Complete Book of Ground Covers

Get your copy and transform your garden

After nine years of research, photography, and writing The Complete Book of Ground Covers by Phoenix Perennials owner Gary Lewis was published by Timber Press in Fall 2022, It is available at the nursery for pick-up or on the nursery website for shipping within Canada. You can also buy it anywhere in North America, Europe, and around the world from your local bookstore or the big online retailers.

It is an encyclopedia of more than 4000 different species and cultivars that is a textbook of ground covers for the temperate gardening world. It also includes sections on the practical, aesthetic, and environmental benefits of ground covers that discuss how to save time and money in the garden, how to make gardens more sustainable, and how to make gardens more creative and beautiful all by using ground covers.

Illustrated with 650 stunning photos taken by Gary on his travels around the world, this is a scrumptious and inspiring volume perfect for beginner, intermediate, and expert gardeners alike including garden and landscape professionals.

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Order signed copies for pick-up or Canadian shipping. Or order from your favourite neighbourhood bookseller or online retailer anywhere in the world.

Available in Japanese!

The Japanese language translation was published in spring 2024! It can be ordered from Japanese online sources for shipping to Canada.

UPCOMING SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

2025

Monday February 10th, 2025 – Hellebores: Jewels of the Winter and Spring Garden (Virtual Presentation) – Oshawa Garden Club, Oshawa, Ontario

Thursday February 13th, 2025 – The Complete Talk on Ground Covers – Mayne Island Garden Club, Mayne Island, BC

Monday February 17th, 2025 – Hot New Plants – Squamish Garden Club, Squamish, BC

Thursday February 27th, 2025 – The Complete Talk on Ground Covers & Hot New Plants – Parks Professional Pathways Conference, BC Recreation and Parks Association, Langley, BC

Thursday March 6th, 2025 – The Complete Talk on Ground Covers – Mount Klitsa Garden Club, Port Alberni, BC

Saturday April 5th, 2025 – The Complete Talk on Ground Covers – Shuswap Garden Club, Salmon Arm, BC

Get more information on Gary’s Presentations for garden clubs and professional groups.

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