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.
The brief 2021 lotus mail order season has now ended. All lotus are now out of stock for mail order on our online store.
Lotus will be available for mail order again next year.
This happens because our lotus plants are now too big and fragile to send in the post at this time of year. However it is also because for many varieties our available stocks for mail order have now sold out.
In the mean time lotus are now available for retail purchase as potted plants at our nursery, and as long as stocks last should remain available until around February/March 2022.
We have started our 2021-2022 mail order season. Plants are now being listed as in stock in our store.
For now we have started with early lillies and pond plants.
Lotus will be added as available very soon.
First orders will be mailed out on Monday 23rd of August.
Additional changes to the web site and our information pages are also on their way over the next few weeks.
Mail orders are currently unavailable on the web site.
We disable mail orders in December to avoid time sensitive live plant package delivery delays due to the extra parcel traffic at that time.
The first mail orders of 2019 will be sent out on the first Monday of January, Monday the 7th of January 2019.
Mail orders on the web site will be enabled in the week prior for that mail out.
To avoid packages of live plants being stuck with excessive mail times we do not send mail orders during the Christmas period.
As such our last mail out of orders this year will be on the 3rd of December.
We will commence sending mail orders again first Monday of January in 2019.
Mail orders for our early Spring stock, a small selection of water iris, and our first temperate water lilies of the season have been enabled.
The first orders will be sent out on Monday the 20th of August.
This year we have added a new water lily to our online range, Wanvisa a hardy high performance lily with strikingly attractive variegated flowers. Check it out as it is an excellent plant both for beginners and experienced collectors alike.
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.
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.
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 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.
