Raleigh, North Carolina – Plant Delights Nursery (www.plantdelights.com), an international mail order nursery specializing in rare and unusual perennials has released their 110 page color catalog and redesigned website. The informational and satirical catalog includes over 100 new perennials including three new exclusive rain lilies from Indonesian breeder Fadjar Marta: Zephyranthes ‘Crimson Sunset’, ‘Magic Charm’, and ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’. Uvularia perfoliata ‘Jingle Bells’ is a new variegated native fairy bells, discovered in North Carolina by Plant Delights customer Marty Finkel. New releases from the Plant Delights breeding program include two new fairy wings, Epimedium ‘Chocolatte’ and ‘Cherry Blossom’, a horizontally-striped monkey grass, Liriope ‘Sideswiped’, a vigorous form of the winter-blooming iris, Iris unguicularis ‘Logan Calhoun’, and two new hosta introductions, Hosta ‘Sunny Side Up’ and ‘First Lady’. The price of the catalog is 10 stamps or a box of chocolates. (The catalog is sent regardless of payment, but the chocolates are truly appreciated).
Plant Delights Nursery was recently named one of the Top 7 mail order nurseries in the country by Garden Design Magazine in their December 2010 issue. http://www.gardendesign.com/brown/best-mail-order-plant-sources?pnid=117161#gallery-content
Plant Delights was also named by Martha Stewart Living in their 2006 list of the best gardening sources.
http://www.marthastewart.com/article/15-years-of-the-best-gardening-sources
About Plant Delights Nursery
Plant Delights Nursery is a mail-order and internet-based plant nursery that has been in business since 1988. They hold four open houses per year: winter, spring, summer, and fall. Plant Delights Nursery sells rare and unusual perennials from around the world. Many of their plants were discovered by co-owner, Tony Avent, during his more than 66 plant hunting expeditions to exotic places such as Argentina, China, Crete, and South Africa. In addition to being a plant explorer and businessman, Tony Avent is a renowned plantsman, a successful author and a popular public speaker who tours nationally. Plant Delights Nursery is known for its print catalog which features humorous and topical cover art as well as irreverant, witty and sometimes edgy prose. Plant Delights Nursery and Tony Avent are frequently profiled on television (including The Martha Stewart Show and Almanac Gardener), in magazines (including Southern Living, Horticulture, and Fine Gardening) and in newspapers (including the New York Times, Houston Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, and News & Observer). Proceeds from Plant Delights Nursery support the Juniper Level Botanic Gardens, a six acre garden with extensive research programs that grows over 18,000 different plants.
Contact:
Krista Morgan, Administrative Horticulturist
[email protected]
(919) 772-4794
For more information, visit www.plantdelights.com
