About Our Plants, Shipping Schedule, and  Installation
~ Now Shipping MONDAYS Only ~

All plants are bare root,  graded "as dug", and "blooming" size. We usually have plenty of ferns and our most popular wildflowers in stock, for shipping all year, prepared as dormant stock, meaning they are ready to emerge in your garden, shortly after you plant them. If we are out of dormant stock, then fresh dug will be substituted, so order early!  Join the woodland flower craze, and search our pages above. Trillium, daisy, hosta, ground cover, including vinca and pachysandra are offered, as well as your other favorite woodland flowers and perennials.

Some wildflowers are clearly marked "fresh dug"; meaning there is no significant tuber, rhizome, or bulb on this type of plant to enable storing  them, or they are not as popular and might be stored too long. They will take a little longer to ship, and they may not come up this year, (unless you are ordering early) as they have already come up once. Treat them as you would any new plant, and they WILL come up next year, if they miss this season.

If you are on the Gulf Coast, or Florida, give your ferns some extra time to emerge... they will.  If they ever seem to 'burn out'  in the heat, (which they might every few years), just clip them down and let them re-emerge. 

Daylilies, hosta and general perennials will come up any time of the year, and do well, dormant, or not. A few items just won't ship well in the heat of July and August. (Ajuga, Boston Ivy). If you've any doubts, call us, or email us from our Contact page.

Shipping

Most ferns and dormant wildflowers  are shipped next or same business day, beginning March 1st.  Once hot weather arrives, shipping is done on Mondays to save your plants from a possible stay in a UPS warehouse over a weekend.  Fresh dug items usually require a couple of weeks to prepare and ship.  Please be patient.  We appreciate your business and are always working as quickly as we can.

Rooted groundcovers, vines,  perennials, liriopes,  most daylilies, are not stored here, and will take a little longer to ship.  Please allow 2 weeks for these items to ship. These items will generally begin to emerge shortly after you have planted them.  

This year, we are sorry, we can no longer ship to: CA, OR, AZ, NV, or ID. Growers/shippers having trouble since new regulations on importing live items. 

Quantities are wholesale 100 only.

Installation 

Good nursery practice is to plant your stock as soon as it arrives. Water well, and provide water as needed.  If your items arrive a little too early for your planting zone, keep them in your cooler, or any cool shady place, like your garage, until you are ready. Protect from freezing.

Plant so root is just below ground, about 1" depth, and topped bud is just at the surface.  Rooted cuttings (ground covers) plant to the root line. 

Most woodland flowers do not like bark mulch (too acidic).  If you mulch them the first year, mulch lightly, about an inch, and it will help them get established by keeping the soil moist. Subsequent years, mulch with leaves, or your compost pile mix.   Most other perennials, (daylilies, hosta, regular perennials, etc.), enjoy mulch and will be easier to take care of if you mulch them!  All should be kept well watered the first year, or until established.  

Most woodland flowers like a humus soil mix.  Perennials, like good garden soil.  Daylilies seem to do well in any type of soil, given water.

Thank you for your order!