You may have noticed the shop button is down, we are working on the spring catalog now, should be out in a few days for the mailorder folks. If you are in Oregon or anywhere within a few thousand miles you really should try to make it to Hortlandia. This legendary Portland based plant sale is our kickoff to the spring plant sales season and an epic way to get your spring off to a roaring start. Dozens of fantastic nurseries and non profits come together in a huge space to sell a terrific array of plants. Click here for the details: HPSO Hortlandia Sale

We will have a Hortlandia exclusive sale special, for the first 32 customers that spend $32 dollars or more at the nursery, you get a free Phlox. We have an amazing array of groundcovers coming this year and I know all of you have space for a groundcover in your garden! From the tight cushion species of the Western mountains, to showy pink super hardy Alaskan tundra species, and some wonderful hybrids in just about every color we will have them available at Hortlandia and Thanks to a colleague we have a super fantastic selection of new phlox varieties to paint the edges of your garden beds with! Weave them together in a tapestry along your garden bed edges and enjoy the color show! Some of these haven’t been seen in the trade in a while. I think “Boothmans variety” is my favorite of the new releases this year, but we will also have Phlox ‘Mcdaniels cusion’, P. borealis, P. hoodii, P. bifida and hybrids, ‘Rice Creek’, ‘Spring Blue’, ‘Fort Hill’, X Henryae ‘Camla’, ‘Betty’ and a bunch more of these and other stellar groundcovers!

Some other super fantastic dwarf, drought tolerant and alpine plants will be available at Hortlandia and in the upcoming catalog. Despite fighting the birds, for the nutritious seeds of Lewsiopsis tweedyi, we managed to crank out a few plants for sale, stop by the booth to pick from the species, as well as L. tweedyi ‘Alba’ and the magnificent L. tweedyi ‘Lovedream’.

Another thing I’m super excited to offer is the hardy Pinguicula grandiflora, this amazing alpine species is hardly ever seen in horticultural circles and it makes a fantastic carnivorous addition to the rock garden where it likes to grow on moist, tufa. I have been working hard to get some of these hardy, choice alpines into cultivation in our area. These are in limited supply so get there early to grab one of the choice species.

Of course we will have a huge array of our choice, rock garden, alpine and drought tolerant species and selections for every type of garden! At Hortlandia we often have a few larger things that don’t get shipped, stop by and check out our quart pots of Lilium X fusion, the stunning Leopard lily hybrid ready to naturalize in your garden, needing little care and attracting butterflys and other pollinators for miles! We will also have a nice selection of plants in shuttle pots.

Hope to see you at Hortlandia! Bring your $32 dollars by our booth for a free Phlox. For our friends who can’t make it to Hortlandia, stay tuned the spring catalog will be live in a bit, no fancy countdown timer this go around so just keep your eyes peeled.

Sunny and warm weekend is really starting to feel like spring is sinking it’s teeth in! Get ready for the flowers.

Cheers,

Mark and the illahe crew.

Hortlandia and the Spring Catalog

Rush Daffodils