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Order NOW for delivery this fall. We’ll ship these fall-planted bulbs in October.

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.

Paulus Potter, 1920 — ruby-purple & elegant
Peter Pan, 1943 — innocent white from WW II
Admiration, 1912 — tafetta-silk and amber
April Queen, 1938 — bright, flame-kissed cup
Argent, 1902 — bright double with arms akimbo
Brilliancy, 1906 — luminous Arts-and-Crafts-era beauty
Broughshane, 1938 — amber-white Irish trumpet
Cassandra, 1897 — rare Victorian pheasant’s-eye
Colleen Bawn, 1885 — demure, nodding white trumpet
Croesus, 1912 — gold and silver coins
Daphne, 1914 — ADS 2008 Best Historic Daffodil
Dick Wellband, 1921 — deep orange and cream
Early Pearl, 1899 — early, fragrant, and luminous
Empress, 1869 — our 2009 Heirloom Bulb of the Year!
Firetail, 1910 — is its cup truly RED?
Golden Spur, 1885 — extra-early Victorian trumpet
Horn of Plenty, 1947 — long, dramatic bells
Insulinde, 1921 — graceful, exuberant double
Lintie, 1937 — red-rimmed jonquil/poet combo
Louise de Coligny, 1940 — sweet-scented apricot beauty
Lucifer, 1890 — angel wings, devilish cup
Marjorie Hine, 1943 — extravagantly ruffled
moschatus, 1604 — demurely nodding “Swan’s Neck”
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
Seagull, 1893 — floats like a butterfly, apricot rim
Verger, 1930 — as brilliant as a cathedral window
White Lady, 1897 — Victorian lady with a parasol
Bismarck, 1875 — long-lived perennial
Dreadnought, 1899 — curly-petalled double, extra rare
General Kohler, 1878 — double blue-purple
Grand Monarque, 1863 — lost and now found
King of the Blues, 1863 — distinctively slim and dark
Lord Balfour, 1883 — unusual, distinctly antique color
Marie, 1860 — deepest indigo-purple
Menelik, 1911 — black and beautiful
Mulberry Rose, 1946 — raspberry ice cream
Queen of the Blues, 1870 — soft, silvery blue
Roman Pink, 1573 — wildflowery, pink, and wonderful
Vuurbaak, 1948 — deepest rose
antique freesia, 1878 — super fragrant naturalizer
Absalon, 1780 — chocolate and chestnut on gold
Alabaster, 1942 — long-lasting, fragrant white
Amiral de Constantinople, 1665 — “dragon” tulip, jagged and billowing
Bridesmaid, 1900 — flashes and splashes of hot color
Cafe Brun, 1840 — over-caffeinated and very cool
clusiana, 1607 — original WHITE & red
Cottage Maid, 1857 — rose and white sweetheart
Couronne Pourpre Bontlof, 1881? — rippled leaves edged with gold
Duc de Berlin, 1854 — fragrant and bold
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
Golden Harvest, 1928 — fresh, dewy yellow
Greuze, 1891 — rich, deep purple
Insulinde, 1914 — enjoy its enchanting transformation
Lac van Rijn, 1620 — ancient, purple-red & ivory
Mabel, 1856 — barmaid’s delight?
Perfecta, 1750 — Baroque-filigreed “dragon” tulip
Prince of Austria, 1860 — fragrant and enduring
Purperkroon, 1785 — dark purplish red, aka ‘The Moor’
The Lizard, 1903 — flames of lilac and rose on cream
Theeroos, 1890 — with tea-rose fragrance!
Wapen van Leiden, 1760 — did George Washington grow this?
Willem van Oranje, 1933 — Renoir coppery-peach
Zomerschoon, 1620 — true relic of Tulipomania

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