The amazing ability of flower bulbs to disappear underground to avoid the heat and drought of summer.

“Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.” Mark Twain

Meet the intern!

Summer shipping update, and other things.

The online availability has been updated, get your rock garden and alpine plants before they sell out!

Join us for an Illahe Adventure!

Open Gardens and Plant Sale!

On the shipping season, botanical wanderings and the way the world should be.

Spring plant list out now, rare rock garden treasures shipped to your garden!

The fantastic Moraea!

It’s Plant Sale time!

It’s coming along!

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.

Snow showers and Iranian Fritillaria.

Treason…………there is no other way to view it.

A brief photo history of the greenhouses at illahe and an update on the new house construction.

The arctic outbreak has passed and the bulb house is back in bloom.

Winter finally showed up, it was an ice coated, frozen weekend here in Western Oregon.

A winter walk through the garden and bulb house on the first day of the new year. Looks like spring is coming soon.

A Christmas Wish and a Climate Battery Update