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Our Fall-Planted Crown Jewels

Throughout our site, these treasures are highlighted with a green or purple bar and the word RAREST. Most you can’t get anywhere else in North America, and the rest you’d be very hard-pressed to find. That makes them extra-endangered – and extra-exciting in the garden.

Capitals indicate bulbs that are NEW or returned to our catalog after a hiatus.


Peter Pan, 1943

Queen Anne’s Double Jonquil, 1611

Menelik, 1911

antique freesia, 1878

Amiral de Constantinople, 1665

Paeony Gold, 1700

General Ney, 1837

Lac van Rijn, 1620
CROCUS
Paulus Potter, 1920 — ruby-purple & elegant
Peter Pan, 1943 — innocent white from WW II
DAFFODILS
Admiration, 1912 — tafetta-silk and amber
April Queen, 1938 — bright, flame-kissed cup
Brilliancy, 1906 — luminous Arts-and-Crafts-era beauty
Broughshane, 1938 — amber-white Irish trumpet
Camellia, 1930 — chiffon yellow petals piled high
Cassandra, 1897 — rare Victorian pheasant’s-eye
Colleen Bawn, 1885 — demure, nodding white trumpet
Daphne, 1914 — ADS 2008 Best Historic Daffodil
Early Pearl, 1899 — early, fragrant, and luminous
Empress, 1869 — landmark white and gold
Firetail, 1910 — is its cup truly RED?
Golden Spur, 1885 — extra-early Victorian trumpet
Horn of Plenty, 1947 — long, dramatic bells
Horsfieldii, 1845 — the Model T of daffodils
Lintie, 1937 — fragrant jonquil/poet combo
Louise de Coligny, 1940 — sweet-scented apricot beauty
Lucifer, 1890 — angel wings, devilish cup
Madame de Graaff, 1887 — finest white of the Victorian age
Mrs. Krelage, 1912 — for the first time since 1996!
Mrs. Langtry, 1869 — crinkled canary cup ringed with gold
Niveth, 1931 — Thalia’s elegant, uptown cousin
Princeps, 1830 — graceful white and yellow wildling
Queen Anne’s Double Jonquil, 1611 — prom dresses for honeybees
Rose of May, 1950 — rose-like shape and fragrance
Sir Watkin, 1868 — one of the all-time greats
Verger, 1930 — as brilliant as a cathedral window
White Lady, 1897 — Victorian lady with a parasol
HYACINTHS
Bismarck, 1875 — long-lived perennial
General Kohler, 1878 — double blue-purple
Grand Monarque, 1863 — lost and now found
King of the Blues, 1863 — distinctively slim and dark
Marie, 1860 — deepest indigo-purple
Mulberry Rose, 1946 — raspberry ice cream
Perle Brilliante, 1895 — lost and now found
Queen of the Blues, 1870 — soft, silvery blue
Roman Pink, 1573 — wildflowery, pink, and wonderful
Vuurbaak, 1948 — deepest rose
DIVERSE FALL
antique freesia, 1878 — super fragrant naturalizer
TULIPS
Absalon, 1780 — chocolate and chestnut on gold
Alabaster, 1942 — long-lasting, fragrant white
Beauty of Bath, 1906 — rose-on-yellow to purple-on-white
Bridesmaid, 1900 — slender cherry and ivory flame
Clara Butt, 1889 — once the world’s favorite
clusiana, 1607 — original WHITE & red
Duc van Tol Red and Yellow, 1595 — ancient, landmark miniature
Duc van Tol Rose, 1700 — tiny pink and white ballerina
Elegans Alba, 1895 — fragrant vanilla
Elegans Rubra, 1872 — stark simplicity
General Ney, 1837 — rich, dark cordovan brown
Golden Harvest, 1928 — fresh, dewy yellow
Greuze, 1891 — rich, deep purple
Insulinde, 1914 — enjoy its enchanting transformation
James Wild, 1890 — gloriously amber-brown
Lac van Rijn, 1620 — ancient crown of purple-red and ivory
Mabel, 1856 — barmaid’s delight?
Prince of Austria, 1860 — fragrant and enduring
The Lizard, 1903 — flames of lilac and rose on cream
Theeroos, 1890 — tea-rose fragrance
Willem van Oranje, 1933 — Renoir coppery-peach
Zomerschoon, 1620 — true relic of Tulipomania

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See our past and present BULBS OF THE YEAR.

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