Save money and have fun with this fabulous sampler of summer-blooming bulbs. You’ll get at least $35 worth of time-tested dahlias, glads, daylilies, iris, and spring-planted diverse bulbs, all labeled and great for your area, for just $30 (plus shipping). Such a deal!

Order by USDA hardiness zone. Don’t know your zone? Click here and enter your zip code to find out. Limit one sampler per address, please.

“You have breast cancer.” No one wants to hear those words, but last year 200,000 Americans did, including our co-worker and dear friend, Kelly. The good news is, after surgery and months of chemo and radiation, her prognosis is excellent and she’s back in the garden working harder than anyone. In celebration, we’re donating $3 from each of these samplers to the Live Strong Foundation.

We’ll send you (or your mom, daughter, sister or friend?) a pink and powerful $30 assortment of hardy, spring-planted, summer-blooming beauties, all labeled and great for your area. Help beat breast cancer with flowers!

Please order by USDA hardiness zone. (Don’t know yours? Click here.)

For 60 years or more, this classic milk-and-wine lily has been multiplying without care at the family homeplace of our 70-something Louisiana grower. We’re pretty sure it’s one of the myriad forms of C. x herbertii, a cross that was first made by the godfather of crinums, Dean Herbert, in 1819. Its clusters of 10-20 candy-striped flowers on 3-foot stalks open wide, filling the air with fragrance, and then mature into gracefully dangling bells. Crinums are incredibly tough, and if you give this one plenty of sun and decent care, in a few years you’ll have a huge clump blooming off and on all summer long. Big bulbs, 3-4” across, zones 7b-9b, from Louisiana. Chart to compare.

Graceful, spectacular, and different, this landmark canna is topped by arching sprays of dangling, bell-shaped, deep rose flowers that remind us of fuchsias. Though widely praised by late Victorian gardeners, it doesn't store or ship as easily as other cannas so it all but disappeared in the 20th century. But now it’s back, and it’s a thrill. 5-7 feet, green leaves, from Texas.

We’re sad to say this is the ONLY canna we’re offering this year, because it’s the only one we’re 100% confident is virus-free.

If ‘Lucifer’ has whetted your appetite for crocosmias, give this antique original a try. When we couldn’t find true stock offered anywhere, we turned to our friends at the 1857 Manship House Museum in Jackson, Mississippi, where it’s been flourishing for generations. With cottage-garden informality and spectacular vigor, it’s a pass-along classic. Zones 7-9S/11WC or store in winter like glads, from Louisiana. Chart to compare.

This landmark yellow was introduced by head-gardener George Davison, the first Englishman to breed crocosmias. With loads of star-like, honey-gold flowers on heavily branched stems, it’s “highly recommended” by David Fenwick, former holder of the British National Collection — and us! 36 inches, mid-summer, zones 7-9S/10WC or store like glads, from Holland. Chart to compare. Photo - Gap Photos.

“The Luther Burbank of France,” Victor Lemoine introduced many of the 19th century’s most exciting new lilacs, peonies, and glads — and the first named crocosmias. His fiery ‘Météore’ endures, lighting up the late summer garden with a smoldering mix of orange, red, and gold as it has for well over a century. 22-26 inches, zones 7-9S/10WC or store like glads, from Holland. Chart to compare. Photo - Gap Photos.

This is the cold-hardiest amaryllis and “the finest... for garden culture,” according to Greg Grant in The Southern Heirloom Garden. It’s also the oldest hybrid amaryllis, bred by British watchmaker Arthur Johnson in 1799, and offered by nurseries in Virginia and California by 1853. With graceful red and white flowers, it’s hardy in zones 7-11 – or even 6b, says Tulsa’s Russell Studebaker in full-page praise of it in Horticulture magazine. It’s not quite as easy to bloom in pots as the modern monsters, but if we can do it, you can, too! We ship small plants that will bloom the following year. Click here for a cool St. Joe’s lily image from 1920. Chart to compare.