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Spring Alpine and Rock Garden Availability online now!
Spring plant list out now, rare rock garden treasures shipped to your garden!
Spring Update!
From Snow to Sun, California sunsets and Oregon Spring rains, it’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks, check out the gallery for some of the Adventures.
Getting past the Schlock
A brief photo history of the greenhouses at illahe and an update on the new house construction.
Deep Freeze
Winter finally showed up, it was an ice coated, frozen weekend here in Western Oregon.
A Happy New Year
A winter walk through the garden and bulb house on the first day of the new year. Looks like spring is coming soon.
Appalachian Murder Ballads
Iris planifolia the winter blooming Juno, Appalachian Murder Ballads and Climate Batteries.
December Is Here
December wishes, New Zealand travels and Christmas ideas!
Brachyglottis on the slopes of Mt. Doom, NZ
Crocus cartwrightianus
A brief on the wonderful saffron group species, Crocus cartwrightianus.
Jack Frost is coming
Frost is on the way for the valley, signaling the end of one season and the beginning of another.
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself then to be crowded on a velvet cushion” Henry David Thoreau
The end of the bulb season is nigh!
Welcome to Fall Bulb Sale On Now
Colchicum ‘Glory of Heemsteede’ a wonderful fall bloomer is still available and the Fall Bulb Sale is on now!