Mail orders have be reactivated on the web site for the second half of Summer. The first batch have been sent out on the 13th.
Mail Orders Disabled For December
Mail orders on the web site have been disabled for the Christmas mailing period. Due to postal delays at this time of year it becomes impossible to guarantee that plants will arrive in a timely and healthy condition.
Mail orders will be re-activated in the new year.
If your order was confirmed before the 9th of December then it was sent out on the 9th of December with the last of the mail orders before the Christmas mailing period.
Lotus Mail Orders Over For Season
Our lotus plants are now too large to send in the mail. They have now been set to out of stock on the web site. They will be available next year some time in Spring for new mail orders.
However in the mean time we will continue to sell lotus plants retail on site at our nursery out to at least March, and encourage you to come buy and purchase them as advanced flowering plants in 33cm buckets for $40 or $65 depending on variety.
If you are able to make the trip not only is the purchasing season extended but you will get a more advanced established plant that is easier to grow and may already be in flower.
Tropical Water Lilies
The first run of tropical water lilies are now available for mail order. They will be available until the Christmas mail order break and will be available again, possible with additional later tropical varieties after the break ends around new year.
Meanwhile our lotus mail orders are starting to be turned off. Many larger lotus varieties are now too large to post, smaller, later and hardier varieties are on for an extra week or so, but are likely to turned off shortly. So if you want mail order lotus you should order soon. They will not be turning back on in the new year and will remain unavailable for mail order until next season. However Lotus will of course still be available retail at our nursery as advanced and flowering plants in 33cm flower buckets.
Lotus and Christmas mail orders
Lotus Mail Orders Ending Soon
We are recommending that Anyone interested in ordering Lotus plants from us mail order should do so soon. As in the near future we will be turning them off on the web site for the season as they are about to be too large to send in the mail.
Lotus plants will remain available for retail purchase at our nursery as potted plants for the rest of Summer.
Mail Orders Will Be Suspended Near Christmas
Also anyone planning to mail order plants for Christmas needs to be aware that we will not be sending out any mail orders in the weeks immediately before Christmas as the mail tends to be significantly delayed and your mail order plants might suffer as a result.
The last day that we will send out mail orders before suspending them over Christmas will be on the 9th of December. However we would recommend that anyone wanting to avoid mail order delays instead place their order in time for us to send it the week before on the 2nd of December.
Mail orders will resume in the new year.
Mail Order Lotus Now Available
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.