2024 has flown by! We’re closed for the season while the plants sleep and we get caught up with everything there just didn’t seem to be enough time to do while it was warm outside.

The plan is to be back online by February 14, 2025. The site will remain up for informational purposes, but ordering won’t be possible until about February.

‘Till then, have a wonderful holiday season, and we’ll see you in a couple months.

The US Postal Service raised rates back in July for the Priority Mail Flat Rate boxes.

I held shipping prices steady for the second half of 2024. However, I will need to adjust rates for 2025. I will update them when I have a better sense of where USPS rates are in January. There was a rumour that there was to be another increase by the end of 2024 (via a conversation with a postal worker, which is why I even mention it).

Below, Tricyrtis ‘Empress,’ a lovely late summer-early fall blooming season extender.

Lilies (true lilies) and Hostas will be the first items to ship in 2025, around March. They need to be dormant when they’re shipped, so the window for shipping is pretty narrow. I’ll post when it’s time.

Below, Hosta Row in 2023.

Disappointed with paler foliage color and sluggish growth rates brought on by small container sizes and low fertility and moisture levels, named varieties and seedlings being considered for registration were moved up from one gallon pots to six gallon pots. Pictured below are one and two-gallon seedlings from seed produced in 2021, as seen in August of 2023, one month after getting them out of their starter pots.

I’m working toward a new set of introductions for 2025. In Iris alone, crosses made in 2023 resulted in 54 pods with varying numbers of seeds. That’s an all-time high, exactly one year after the all-time low of 9 pods set in 2022. Pictured below is seedling 18-08C, one of the more promising youngsters I’m considering for registration.