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Sea Shell Peony Heirloom Diverse Flower
Sea Shell Peony, 1937


Louise de Coligny Heirloom Daffodil Flower
Louise de Coligny, 1940


Turkish glory-of-the-snow Heirloom Diverse Flower
Turkish glory-of-the-snow


Lemon Lily Daylily Heirloom Diverse Flower
lemon lily daylily, 1570


Wabash Iris Heirloom Diverse Flower
Wabash, 1936


Ehemannii Heirloom Canna Flower
Ehemannii, 1863
New for Fall 2008 Planting

CROCUS

Albus — the “Starry Night” tommie

DAFFODILS
April Queen — bright, flame-kissed cup
Chinita — fragrant, pale amber moons
Daphne — ADS 2008 Best Historic Daffodil
Horace — poet of carpe diem
Horn of Plenty — long, dramatic bells
Insulinde — graceful, exuberant double
King Alfred — true stock!
Lintie — red-rimmed jonquil/poet combo
Louise de Coligny — sweet-scented apricot beauty
Marjorie Hine — extravagantly ruffled
Martha Washington — jewel-like colors, warm perfume
Orange Phoenix, Eggs & Bacon — cottage-garden classic
Rose of May — rose-like shape and fragrance
Shirley Temple — broad ivory ruff with a sunny rosette
Verger — as brilliant as a cathedral window

LILIES
speciosum album — better than ‘Casa Blanca’?

TULIPS
Cafe Brun — over-caffeinated and very cool
Cardinal Rampolla — burnt orange on dusky gold
Columbine — purple, lace-like tracery
Cottage Maid — rose and white sweetheart
Duc van Tol Aurora — tiny yellow flamed with red
Gloria Nigrorum — dark violet splashed on cream
James Wild — gloriously amber-brown
Markgraaf van Baden — molten-lava “dragon” tulip
Preludium — rose-pink over ivory
Red Hue — edgy, off-kilter viridiflora
Silver Standard — dazzling red on white

FALL DIVERSE
Festiva Maxima peony — best-loved for over a century
German garlicAllium senescens montanum, butterfly favorite
Madame Ducel peony — pink, petite, and rarely offered
Mons. Martin Cahuzac peony — darkest peony ever?
purple-headed garlick — deer-resistant, “drumstick” allium
Rubra Plena peony — classic Memorial Day “piney”
Sea Shell peony — graceful APS Gold Medal winner
sowbread cyclamen — best cyclamen for most gardens
Turkish glory-of-the-snow — unusual, intensely blue species

New for Spring 2009 Planting

CANNAS
Ehemannii — arching sprays of dangling flowers
Shenandoah — baby-pink with bronze leaves

DAHLIAS
Giraffe — weird and wonderful
Mrs. H. Brown — love-child of the ‘Bishop’ & ‘Clair’
Prinzessin Irene von Preussen — rare white, serene and charming
Sellwood Glory — dark burgundy on silver

SPRING DIVERSE
autumn daffodilSternbergia, fall goblets of gold
Gracchus — short, regal iris, great for perennial borders
Hyperion daylilythe classic yellow daylily
Kwanso double daylily — opulent Victorian favorite
lemon lily — fragrant daylily, true stock!
Madame Chereau — landmark iris, our Spring 2009 Bulb of the Year
montbretia — the antique original
Wabash — vibrant Dykes Medal-winning iris


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