The Shop is open and ready to take orders. Selections can be added to your cart, and you can checkout via this site. Payments are processed via PayPal, so I retain no personal information (I never see anything past name, shipping address, phone number if provided, and e-mail address). Below: Seedling Row in May, 2022.

At long last, you no longer have to send an e-mail or call to purchase available plants…you can select, cart, and pay through the Shop page. I was just getting my feet wet with how Squarespace is set up in 2023 and now have a better feel for how to approach the commerce side of the operation. Below, Tricyrtis ‘Empress,’ a lovely late summer-early fall blooming season extender.

Lilies and Hostas are waking up and will soon be too far developed to be shipped safely. The cutoff date for shipping is March 17. As of March 18, they will remain available, but as potted plants that will be limited to local pickup. Some Hostas are now in 2 gal pots, and no one really wants to pay to ship a big ball of dirt.

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.