For an easy introduction to the wonders of antique bulbs, let us choose for you — and save! We’ll send at least $35 worth of diverse, time-tested daffodils, lilies, hyacinths, tulips, peonies, crocus, and other fall-planted bulbs, all labeled and great for your area, for just $30 (plus shipping). It’s fun, easy, and a deal!

Please order by USDA hardiness zone. (Don’t know yours? Find it here.) Limit 1 sampler per address, please.

“You have breast cancer.” No one wants to hear that, but last year 200,000 Americans did, including our co-worker and 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, fall-planted bulbs, all labeled and great for your area. Help beat breast cancer with flowers!

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

Here’s a collection of sweet little wildflowers that multiply happily in light, moist shade. You’ll get 5 winter aconites, 5 snake’s-head fritillaries, 5 silver bells, 5 Siberian squill, and 5 Crocus tommasinianus. For zones 5-7bS/8bWC only.

For 10, 15, or more of each, order additional samplers.

Tough enough to laugh at high heat, poor soils, and even hurricanes, these beauties have graced gardens throughout the South (and warm West) for generations. We’ll send you 1 red spider lily, 1 oxblood lily, 3 ‘Excelsior’ Spanish bluebells, 3 ‘Gravetye Giant’ snowflakes, and 3 Southern grape hyacinths. For zones 7-8bS/9bWC only.

   For more of each variety, order additional samplers.

Butterflies and bees love these fuzzy little lavender pompons blooming in mid-summer over neat green foliage. Although most alliums have become popular only in the last 25 years, Boston’s E.S. Rand included German garlic in his 1866 Bulbs, and in 1900 Liberty Hyde Bailey listed it as one of only six “in general cultivation.” 12-18 inches, zones 4-7bS/9aWC, from Michigan. Chart to compare.

In America’s first bulb catalog in 1820, William Prince listed just one allium: “purple headed-garlick.” Often called “drumsticks” today, this easy, deer-resistant perennial has 1-inch, egg-shaped flowerheads that start green, turn rose, and end up wine-red. Cool! 30-36 inches, zones 4a-7bS/9WC, from Holland. Chart to compare.

Cheap, easy to grow, yet “one of the loveliest of flowers” (to quote Louise Beebe Wilder), this wild anemone first appeared in US catalogs in the 1890s. The variety ‘White Splendour’ was introduced in 1950, won an RHS Award of Garden Merit in 1993, and is both “the strongest growing” (to quote Christopher Lloyd) and “dazzling.” 4-8 inches, zones 5-8aS/9WC, from Holland. Chart to compare.

The woodlands of Wave Hill in early spring are awash in this sapphire-blue Turkish wildflower. Deeper blue and shorter than common glory-of-the-snow, it blooms at crocus time, naturalizes eagerly, and was awarded an RHS AGM as a plant so good it belongs in every garden. 4-6 inches, zones 4-7S/9WC, from Holland. Chart to compare.

We’re proud to deliver huge bulbs, 3-4 inches across, of this fall-blooming cyclamen that bulb-guru John Bryan calls “the first choice for most gardens.” Known as sowbread in Shakespeare’s time, today it’s more often called ivy-leaved cyclamen due to its angular, ivy-like, silver-patterned leaves. Give it light shade and humus-rich soil that’s dry in summer. A.k.a. C. neapolitanum, 4-6 inches, zones 6-7bS/9bWC, from Holland. Chart to compare.