Most of our range of lotus plants are now available for mail order from the web site.
Get them now while they are still small enough to fit in the post.
Display at Hunter Valley Gardens
As part of a month long Festival Of Flowers event at Hunter Valley Gardens we have set up a small display of some of our various rare plants. The display will be on site all through September.
Also as part of the event some of our staff will be giving talks about Lotus on Saturday the 14th of September (12:30-12:30 and 1:30 to 2:00) and on Sunday the 15th of September (11:30-12:00 and 1:30-2:00).
Mail Orders Now Open For Spring
We have re-opened mail orders for our early Spring plants. The first orders will be sent out on Monday the 12th of August and mail orders will proceed to go out on the Monday after payment confirmation each week after that.
Our early spring range includes most of our Temperate Waterlilies and a variety of miscellaneous water plants and bog plants, these include some of our hardiest and longest season water lilies and water plants.
We have added a new section for “Package Deals”. Mailing costs have increased this year and the Package Deals section is designed to provide small packages of plants that customers making smaller orders might like to purchase with a discounted mailing cost included in the package instead of applying our flat mailing fee after selecting custom plants from the site. If you are just ordering one or two lilies you can save a little money on postage by ordering a package deal option, and if you just want a nice selection of quality in season plants for a water bowl or small pond you can choose to leave the selection of plants to us.
Mail orders closing for Winter
It is currently the time of year that we are deactivating most of our mail order plants, especially all lilies and lotus, for the winter season during which they are dormant and unlikely to survive travel in the post.
Some plants like water irises and various native water plants are winter hardy and will remain available for purchase.
The deactivated plants will become available again as they become ready, starting with temperate lilies and early water plants in Spring.
Louisiana Water Iris, Special Winter Sale
Now is the ideal time of year to plant Louisiana Water Iris. These exceptionally tough and versatile plants grow primarily over winter in sunny or shady positions in boggy soil or submerged in the water. Then, in early Spring produce large and decorative Iris flowers in a wide range of attractive colours.
We have placed a large selection of our Louisiana Water Iris on sale, including many of our best and most popular varieties to encourage people to get them now, while the time is right.
Tropical Water Lily orders disabled for Winter
Unfortunately it is now the end of the Water Lily mail order season, the remaining tropical water lilies have been turned off for online mail order as it is no longer a suitable time to transplant them.
Temperate water lilies will be available again some time in early Spring, and tropical lilies some time in late Spring/early Summer. Availability updates will appear here in the site news.
Meanwhile why not check out our Louisiana Water Iris sale.
Temperate Water Lily Mail Orders ended for Winter
Temperate water lilies are now unavailable for mail order on our web site as they will soon be going into winter dormancy and it is no longer particularly suitable to repot and divide them.
Temperate water lilies will continue to be available retail at our nursery all year.
Tropical water lilies will continue to be available on our web site for about another month before they are made unavailable for their later winter dormancy period.
Temperate water lilies will be made available for mail order again on our web site some time in early Spring.
Louisiana Water Iris Now Available For Mail Order
Louisiana Water Iris have now been made available for mail order. The coming months through to Autumn are an excellent time to receive and plant out these colourful flowering Iris as they will grow over winter ready for an early Spring display.
End of Temperate Lily Season Coming Soon
Anyone interested in mail order of Temperate Water Lilies should place their orders now, as we are coming towards the end of the season for dividing and potting temperate lilies and they will soon be made unavailable for mail order.
They should be fine to receive and pot up until we stop sending them later this month, so place your orders now.
Christmas Mail Order Announcement
IMPORTANT NEWS.
For those ordering around Christmas and December.
Due to delays in post and various postal holidays surrounding the Christmas period we do not send out mail orders in the weeks immediately surrounding that time of year.
As such Our Last Mail Orders for 2012 will be sent out on Monday 3rd Of December.
So if you want to make a Christmas mail order this is your last chance to get your mail orders in this week before Monday.
Mail orders will resume on the 7th of January 2013.