A craft nursery specializing in rare bulbs, alpine, rock garden and xeric plants for an evolving climate.
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The shop will be down for a few days as of 11/5/2026 while we update the winter shipping availability. Check back soon as we will have some new offerings with this update that you won’t have seen before including a fantastic selection for fall planting of troughs, crevice gardens and rock gardens.
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Interested in having Mark speak to your garden club or group? Use the Speaking Engagement button to contact Mark about his long list of colorful and entertaining lectures on the topics of rare and unusual geophytes and the evolutionary adaptations that make them unique to explorations of the Chilean Andes culture and flora, New Zealand mountains and gardens and the native wildflowers of the Western United States, as well as the propagation and cultivation of rare and unusual flower bulbs and alpines with an emphasis on how to grow the most difficult and challenging species.