Customer Favorites

Our customers know a good thing when they grow it, and they vote with their dollars every year. Here are their favorites from fall 2010 and spring 2011, based on both numbers sold and dollar value.

Clair de Lune, 1946

Winsome, 1940

Atom, 1946

pallida Dalmatica, 1597

Byzantine gladiolus, 1629

Favorites for SPRING Planting

DAHLIAS

Clair de Lune, 1946 — elegant and wildflowery

Kaiser Wilhelm, 1881 — lemon and burgundy, green button eye

Kidd’s Climax, 1940 — huge pink dinner-plate

Little Beeswings, 1909 — flame and yellow honeycomb

Prince Noir, 1954 — ruffled, dark burgundy cactus

Sellwood Glory, 1951 — dark burgundy on silver

Thomas Edison, 1929 — luxurious true purple

Winsome, 1940 — shocking beauty

DAYLILIES

August Pioneer, 1939 — 8 weeks of bloom

lemon lily, 1570 — fragrant daylily, true stock!

Luxury Lace, 1959 — melon-colored Stout Medal winner

GLADIOLUS

Abyssinian glad, 1888 — fragrant!

Atom, 1946 — pint-sized red and silver

Carolina Primrose, 1908 — small, graceful, and VERY hardy

Lucky Star, 1966 — a truly fragrant glad!

Starface, 1960 — rapturously beautiful

IRIS

Gracchus, 1884 — short, regal iris, great for perennial borders

pallida Dalmatica, 1597 — grape-scented, the quintessential iris

Wabash, 1936 — vibrant Dykes Medal-winning iris

SPRING DIVERSE

Ehemanii canna, 1863 — arching sprays of dangling flowers

Mexican Single tuberose, 1530 — swooningly fragrant

Pearl double tuberose, 1870 — like tiny gardenias

pink rain lily, 1825 — try it in pots

Favorites for FALL-Planting

CROCUS

Cloth of Gold, 1587 — bees flock to this “Turkey crocus”

Negro Boy, 1910 — darkest of all

Snowbunting, 1914 — musk-like fragrance

DAFFODILS

Butter and Eggs, 1777 — the classic cottage-garden double

Campernelle, 1601 — true stock, Southern classic

Carlton, 1927 — foolproof from ND to FL

Grand Primo, 1780 — most vigorous and floriferous

Lent lily, Easter flower, 1200 — Wordsworth’s dancer

Rose of May, 1950 — rose-like shape and fragrance

Thalia, 1916 — dove-like classic

The Tenby Daffodil, 1796 — sweet little teddy bear

Trevithian, 1927 — “breath-taking”

HYACINTHS

Gipsy Queen, 1927 — apricot and melons

L’Innocence, 1863 — pure white, easiest to force

Marie, 1860 — deepest indigo-purple

Roman Blue, 1562 — wildflowery, and it multiplies!

LILIES

Black Beauty, 1957 — dark raspberry

Red Velvet, 1964 — “the perfect garden lily”

regal lily, 1905 — fragrant and easy

Rubrum lily, 1830 — sprinkled with rubies

tiger lily, 1804 — Grandma’s favorite

PEONIES

Chestine Gowdy, 1913 — tri-colored

Festiva Maxima, 1851 — best-loved for over a century

TULIPS

acuminata, 1720? 1816? — “spidery and mad”

Black Parrot, 1937 — exuberantly ruffled and frilled

clusiana, 1607 — original WHITE & red

Estella Rijnveld, 1954 — raspberry-ripple ice cream

Florentine tulip, 1597 — violet-scented

Greuze, 1891 — rich, deep purple

Prinses Irene, 1949 — superb for forcing indoors

DIVERSE FALL

Byzantine gladiolus, 1629 — true stock!

red spider lily, 1821 — heirloom triploid, extra tough

Siberian squill, 1796 — amazingly blue

Spanish bluebell, 1601 — fool-proof classic

Turkish glory-of-the-snow, 1883 — unusual, intensely blue species

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