A few early spring plants are now listed as in stock for mail order on our web site.
This includes the season’s first Lotus and Temperate Water Lilies.
Additional stocks and varieties will be added as in stock over coming weeks.
Tropical Water Lilies will not be available for several months yet.
Mail orders will become available on the website in the last week of August ready to be sent on the first Monday in September.
Available plants should include temperate water lilies and lotus.
The first of our lotus are now available for mail order this season.
More may become available over the next few weeks but much of the range is already in stock.
Lotus mail order season is short and plants will likely be too big to mail in just a few months.
Lotus are not yet available as potted plants at the nursery for retail sale, they will be in a month or so. But once they are available they will be available all summer beyond the limited season for bare rooted lotus in the mail.
Lotus mail orders have been discontinued for 2016 as the plants are now too advanced to bare root and post.
Lotus mail orders will be available again some time again next Spring.
Advanced potted lotus plants of almost all our varieties currently remain available for retail purchase at our nursery and will likely remain available until at least around March 2017.
Lotus plants for mail order are running out of stock and remaining varieties will soon be too large to send in the post this season.
Depending on demand and seasonal factors all remaining lotus will be listed as out of stock for mail order some time over the next several weeks. If you plan to mail order lotus this season you should place your orders while you still can.
However the end of lotus mail order season is also the beginning of the prime season to purchase advanced lotus plants at our nursery. Potted lotus at the nursery are already established and available for sale this season and will be until late summer/early autumn next year. They will likely begin flowering on site some time around December.
We have made a selection of our plants available and in stock on the web site for early Spring mail orders.
For now available plants are limited primarily to most of our Temperate Water lily range, a selection of our miscellaneous plants and just the very earliest of our lotus varieties.
More lotus varieties, other plants and later tropical lilies will be made available on the site as the season progresses.
As usual orders will be sent out on Mondays for the best mailing times, and we will be sending out the first batch of mail orders on Monday August the 8th.
We have made many of our varieties of lotus available for mail order on the web site as they are now ready to be mailed out and planted for Spring.
Lotus mail order season is relatively short and some time in late Spring or early Summer plants will become too large to send in the post, and now is the prime season to start them anyway. Also we have relatively limited stocks available of some varieties. So if you are after lotus we recommend you place your orders while stocks last.
For customers visiting the watergardens Lotus is not yet available as an advanced potted retail plant at the nursery but should be ready in a month or two.
Our pre season lotus sale is now over, but despite that you can still get Bunga Baby at the discount price.
If you are looking for more choice from our range of lotus in just a few weeks our regular lotus mail order season will begin with most of the rest of the range being made available at the regular price.
For a limited time only several of our Lotus are available for 30% off the standard price.
In addition because of the early Spring at the nursery the varieties on sale are available NOW significantly earlier than usual.
So if you want lotus early this year, there are some available already and on sale.
Customers in cooler climates may still want to wait a few weeks depending on their local weather conditions.
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.
