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E-Newsletter: Mid February 2016

The Phoenix Perennials E-Newsletter

Mid February 2016

In this Issue

Opening Notes: News, Tidbits and the Phoenix Calendar

1. The Hellebore Hurrah! 2016 -- Don't miss our Opening Weekend plus the Hellebore Catalogue, Hellebores on Breakfast TV, Hellebores in Chinese, Hellebore Containers to Die For and more!
2. Canadian Mail Order List Launched: 800 Amazing Garden Plants for Canadian Gardeners -- We are excited to launch our 2014 Mail Order offerings.
3. The Phoenix Perennials Garden Photo Contest: Win One of Five $50 Gift Certificates -- We're looking for your most beautiful, inspiring, amusing or surprising photos of your garden or a garden you visited in the last year.
4. Awesome Edible Pre-Sales for 2016: Grafted Tomatoes & Veggies, Pixie Grapes, BrazelBerries, 'Owari' Satsuma - It's time to organize your edible growing season with some of the hottest edibles availabe now by pre-sale.
5. The Clematis Conundrum Pre-Sale -- So many clematis, so little time and space! Peruse our huge selection of clematis and pre-order your favourites.
6. Garden Tour: Gardens of New Zealand - Dates and Itinerary Announced - Join co-leaders Phoenix Perennials owner Gary Lewis and Gardening 101 Radio Show host Jeff de Jong on an unforgettable trip to a gardening paradise at the other end of the earth.

Opening Notes: News, Tidbits and the Phoenix Calendar

KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THE EXCITING WORLD OF PHOENIX PERENNIALS
JOIN OUR ALERTS: In addition to our regular e-newsletter we have 14 different occasional Alerts on a variety of topics: Edibles, Hot Plants, Living Sculptures (Succulents and more), Made in the Shade, Hardy Subtropicals, Sales, Native Plants, Hellebores, Clematis and Vines, Maples and Cool Woodies, Mail Order, Christmas, Fragrance and Kids. Learn More About Alerts.
FACEBOOK PAGE Lots of hot updates, pictures and great content. Be the first to know about everything Phoenix! Have a look! You'll love it. Recent Facebook Posts South African Seeds Hellebores on Christmas Eve Agatha's Christmas Cheer Merry Christmas from All of Us A Great Christmas Present Hard Core Gardening Spring Princess Owari Satsuma Agatha goes Christmas Shopping Christmas Hurrah! Christmas Rose Outdoor Containers Hellebore in a Handbag Christmas Rose Wreaths Christmas Hurrah! Hellebores	TWITTER Get your Phoenix updates through Twitter.   YOUTUBE Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to be notified of new videos as soon as they are published. We uploaded 24 videos in our first year! Recent YouTube Updates Edibles at Phoenix CTV Morning Live: Turn Your Black Thumb Green CityTV at Phoenix: Behind the Scenes, Hot New Plants CTV Morning Live: Spring Gardening CTV Morning Live: Protect Pets from Poisonous Plants CityTV at Phoenix: Hellebores, Fragrance, Chafers   INSTAGRAM Our newest social media platform great for sharing images!
PINTEREST Pinterest allows you to create boards on which you pin images from all over the internet so you can organize them in one place. We've created our own boards of inspiring images. You can follow our profile and our boards to keep up to date on our new pins! Phoenix Perennials on Pinterest

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Canadian Mail Order Catalogue Launched for 2016!
800 Amazing Garden Plants for Canadian Gardeners

We are proud to launch our fourth year of Mail Order across Canada with our largest selection ever: 800 amazing garden plants including many rare and cutting edge plants you'd be hard pressed to find anywhere else. At Phoenix Perennials we're real plant lovers and we hope you'll be as excited about these plants as we are. From boisterous and colourful to strange and esoteric, from the height of ornamental horticulture to the cutting edge of edibles, we hope you'll find many wonderful options for your garden. See below for some highlights and special instructions for ordering. Help Us Get the Word Out: We need your help to get the word out across this great (and very large) country of ours. Please forward this email to all your friends and family across the country to let them know that if they can't visit us in BC, we can ship to them anywhere in Canada! Without further ado, let's get your hearts beating a little faster and your gardening souls primed for spring. Here it is: Phoenix Perennials Mail Order http://mailorder.phoenixperennials.com Cheers, Gary and the Phoenicians

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The Third Annual
Phoenix Perennials Garden Photo Contest
Enter for your chance to win one of five $50 gift certificates!

We're looking for your most beautiful, inspiring, amusing or surprising photos of your garden or a garden you visited in the last year. The photos could be images of specific plants, of a container, a plant combination, a garden vignette or anything to do with plants or gardens. The photos will be posted on Facebook as soon as you send them in for voting by your friends, family and fellow gardeners. Whoever gets the most votes (likes, comments and shares) will win themselves one of five $50 gift certificates! It's so easy.

This photo is by Jackie H. from Victoria, one of last year's winners.

How to Enter
1. Send up to five of your best garden, plant or flower photos to phoenixperennials at shaw.ca. Please send high resolution photos. You may need to send them in multiple emails if the files are large. Please put in the subject line: "Photo Contest". Also include your full name and city (only your first name, last initial, and city will be published) and a description of your photo(s). Entries will be accepted until March 1st, 2016 (EXTENDED from February 15th).
2. As soon as you send them in we'll put them up on our Phoenix Perennials Facebook page for everyone to see and vote for by clicking "Like", leaving a comment or sharing with their friends. Please note that if we receive a number of entries at a time we will queue you up and post one photographer's photos each day so it could take a few days to post your photos. We will email you once your photos have been posted.
3. Send your photos as soon as possible. The sooner you get them in, the sooner they will be online where your friends, family and fellow gardeners can start voting for them and the better the chance you have of winning a gift certificate.
4. Voting will run from when the first photos go up until March 15th, 2016 (EXTENDED from March 1st). The five photos with the largest combined number of likes, comments and shares will win the five gift certificates. Note that a single person can actually vote three times for a photo by liking, commenting on and sharing that photo! Please also note though that in order to spread the fun around any one person can only win one gift certificate, even if you have more than one photo in the top five.
5. The winning photos will be specially featured in the March e-newsletter guaranteeing each winner not just fortune but also fame!

We can't wait to see your photos!

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Awesome Edible Pre-Sales for 2016

'Ketchup 'n' Fries', Mighty Matos, Mighty Melons, Mighty Veggies, Pixie Grapes, BrazelBerries, 'Owari' Satsumas

Our popular pre-sales allow you to shop from the comfort of your own home and secure the hottest and most beautiful new plants for your garden. Pre-sales also help us at Phoenix Perennials to plan in advance and provide the right number of plants for our valued customers and fellow gardeners so that everyone receives all of the garden bliss that they desire.

'Ketchup 'n' Fries', Mighty Mato, Mighty Melon & Mighty Veggie Pre-Sale Welcome to our exciting grafted vegetable pre-sale where you can pre-plan your 2016 edible bounty from the comfort of your own home with the most cutting edge edibles available. Pre-sales allow you to secure the exact plants you desire and allow us to make sure we have exactly what you want. Full Descriptions and Ordering 'Ketchup 'n' Fries' - The Revolutionary, New "TomTato" is a hand-grafted plant that brings together tomatoes and potatoes, two close relatives, that together give us one of life's great pleasures: 'Ketchup 'n' Fries'. It produces the sweetest cherry tomatoes you've ever tasted by the hundreds. This year an improved grafting method should ensure much larger crops of potatoes than in 2015 with a few pounds per plant.     Mighty Mato and Mighty Mini Mato Grafted Tomatoes consist of desirable heirloom and cool modern varieties hand-grafted onto super strong tomato rootstock that confers greater disease resistance, greater cold tolerance, and greater vigour resulting in up to 2-3 times more tomatoes per plant than ungrafted plants! Heirloom tomatoes that are sometimes shy in their yields produce like never before. Cool modern varieties also produce extra large yields. The new Mighty Mini Matos are dwarf plants growing to just 3-4 feet tall. Though all Mighty Matos can be grown in large pots, these Mighty Minis will be right at home in containers and will stay compact so they won't overwhelm your small spaces. Mighty Mato ‘Amish Paste’ Mighty Mato ‘Beefsteak’ Mighty Mato ‘Big Beef’ Mighty Mato ‘Big Zac’ Mighty Mato ‘Black Cherry’ Mighty Mato ‘Black Krim’ Mighty Mato ‘Brandywine’ (Sudduth’s) Mighty Mato ‘Bumble Bee Purple’ Mighty Mato ‘Celebrity’ Mighty Mato ‘Cherokee Purple’ Mighty Mato 'Chocolate Stripes' Mighty Mato 'Costoluto Genovese' Mighty Mato ‘Early Girl’ Mighty Mato ‘Homestead 24’ Mighty Mato Indigo ‘Apple’ Mighty Mato ‘Mortgage Lifter’ (Estler’s) Mighty Mato ‘Pineapple’ Mighty Mato 'San Marzano' (Redorta) Mighty Mato ‘Stupice’ Mighty Mato ‘Sun Sugar’ Mighty Mato ‘Sweet Million’ Mighty Mini Mato 'Iditarod' Mighty Mini Mato Indigo 'Dwarf Shadow Boxing' Mighty Mini Mato 'Tasmanian Chocolate'   Mighty Melons and Mighty Veggies consist of desirable heirloom and cool modern varieties that are grafted onto super strong rootstock that, like the Mighty Matos, confers greater disease resistance, greater cold tolerance, and greater vigour resulting in extra large crops of fruit and vegetables. The grafting can make a particularly positive difference in our cool summer climates with melons, peppers and eggplants that all require hot seasons to produce good crops. Mighty Melons 'Ambrosia' Cantaloupe Mighty Melons 'Swan Lake' Honeydew Mighty Melons 'Sugar Baby' Watermelon Mighty Veggies 'Coolcumber' (Khassib) Cucumber Mighty Veggies 'Gigabite' Cucumber Mighty Veggies 'Epic' (Dusky) Eggplant Mighty Veggies 'Anaheim' Pepper Mighty Veggies 'Golden Bell' Pepper Mighty Veggies 'Jalapeno' Pepper Mighty Veggies 'Orange Bell' Pepper 9 + GST Mighty Veggies 'Red Bell' (King Arthur) Pepper   Full Descriptions and Ordering

Pixie Grape Pre-Order The Pixie Grapes are a new series of dwarf grape vines for containers and small spaces developed in the Niagara region of Ontario that will often produce fruit in their first year and forever more after that. They are perfect for small spaces and patios, conversation pieces, and as a gift for every wine lover you know. In 2015 the first Pixie Grape 'Pinot Meunier Purple' hit the scene. This year two new Pixie Grapes join it: 'Cabernet Franc' and 'Riesling'. Now you can really get your Pixie Vineyard going! Pixie Grapes only grow to about 2+ feet tall and wide and get lots of bunches of grapes on its small frame over a long season. They require minimal pruning. 'Pinot Meunier Purple' One of the famous Champagne grapes. 'Cabernet Franc' A fabled variety from Bordeaux and the Loire. 'Riesling' Most varied white from the Mosel of Germany. More Information and Ordering

Brazelberry Pre-Order 2016 Brazelberries are one of the hottest items for gardens and patios. They are dwarf berry bushes (four blueberries and one raspberry) that can be grown in pots on your patio or in the garden. They are attractive plants that produce tons of fruit. What could be better than fresh blueberries and raspberries right from your own garden on beautiful plants that make your garden look great year-round? Pre-order now for pick-up in mid April (exact date yet to be determined). We will email you closer to the pick-up date to let you know exactly when you can get your hands on your new berry bushes! NEW! Vaccinium 'Perpetua' -- Blueberry 'Perpetua' is the newest BrazelBerry. It is a true double-cropping blueberry that sets one crop of fruit in mid-summer, and then flowers and fruits a second time to provide ripe fruit in the fall. The leaves are dark green, somewhat shiny, and curly or twisted in the spring and summer, turning to deep reds and greens in the winter. The new canes are bright yellow and red in winter. Perpetua has smallish berries that are mild and sweet. 1.5g pot. $24.99 + GST   You can also order five other BrazelBerries: Blueberry 'Peach Sorbet' Blueberry 'Jelly Bean' Blueberry 'Blueberry Glaze' Blueberry 'Pink Icing' Raspberry 'Raspberry Shortcake' More Information and Ordering

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The Clematis Conundrum

Pre-Sale

Select from 80 Different Clematis
and 3 Hardy Passion Flowers!

We have a huge selection of the best and most unique Clematis available through our Clematis Conundrum Pre-Sale for pick-up at the nursery in late April 2016!

The Raymond Evison Collection Raymond Evison is England's King of the Clematis and currently the world's most famous clematis breeder. His cultivars are among the best ever produced with huge flowers, unique colours, and long and repeat blooming. Boulevard Series - Compact cultivars perfect for containers, patios, and small spaces. Patio and Garden Series - Classic medium to large-growing clematis for the garden to grow on walls, archways, trellises, pergolas and into shrubs and trees. Regal Series - Ornate double flowers perfect for containers or the garden.
Evison - Boulevard Series - 'Alaina'	Evison - Boulevard Series - 'Cezanne'
Evison - Boulevard Series - 'Cherokee'	Evison - Boulevard Series - 'Corinne'
Evison - Boulevard Series - 'Edda'	Evison - Boulevard Series 'Fleuri'
Evison - Boulevard Series - 'Giselle'	Evison - Boulevard Series - 'Picardy'
Evison - Garland Series - 'Tekla'	Evison - Patio & Garden Series - 'Amethyst Beauty'
Evison - Patio & Garden Series - 'Chevalier'	Evison - Patio & Garden Series - 'Countess of Wessex'
Evison - Patio & Garden Series - 'Diana's Delight'	Evison - Patio & Garden Series - 'Kingfisher'
Evison - Patio & Garden Series - 'Rebecca' - The reddest of all clematis!	Evison - Patio & Garden Series - 'Rosemoor'
Evison - Patio & Garden Series- 'Sally'	Evison - Patio & Garden Series - 'Shimmer'
Evison - Regal Series - 'Crystal Fountain'	Evison - Regal Series - 'Diamantina'
Evison - Regal Series - 'Empress'	Evison - Regal Series - 'Josephine'

The Vancouver Series Bred right here in the Lower Mainland, this new series from Clearview Clematis is making waves in the clematis world with large flowers sporting unique colours and forms on vigorous plants that bloom for months on end.
Vancouver Series - 'Cotton Candy'	Vancouver Series - 'Danielle'
Vancouver Series - 'Daybreak'	Vancouver Series - 'Deborah Dahl'
Vancouver Series - 'Fragrant Star'	Vancouver Series - 'Morning Mist'
Vancouver Series - 'Mystic Gem'	Vancouver Series - 'Sea Breeze'
Vancouver Series - 'Starry Night'

Species Clematis & their Cultivars
Clematis armandii 'Apple Blossom'	Clematis armandii 'Snowdrift'
Clematis cirrhosa 'Freckles' - Evergreen and winterblooming!	Clematis crispa
Clematis florida 'Sieboldi'	Clematis montana 'Grandiflora'
Clematis montana 'Pink Perfection'	Clematis montana 'Rubens'
Clematis paniculata (terniflora) - Sweet Autumn Clematis	Clematis tangutica 'Aureolin'
Clematis texensis 'Duchess of Albany'	Clematis texensis 'Gravetye Beauty'
Clematis texensis 'Princess Diana'	Clematis viticella 'Minuet'
Clematis viticella 'Polish Spirit'	Clematis viticella 'Venosa Violacea'
Clematis x chiisanensis 'Lemon Bells'

Hybrid Clematis
'Allanah'	'Asao'
'Ascotiensis'	'Barbara Jackman'
'Bees' Jubilee'	'Burning Love' has some of the reddest flowers of any clematis. Up close the flowers are a mix of true red and deep fuchsia with a velvety texture. The flowers are produced in profusion in late summer.
'Carnaby'	'Daniel Deronda'
'Diamond Ball'	'Etoile Violette'
'Fuji Musume'	'Gillian Blades'
'Jackmanii'	'Joe Zary'
'Julka'	'Konigekind'
'Lord Neville'	'Madame Le Coultre'
'Mrs. N. Thompson'	'Multi Blue'
'Perle d'Azur'	'Pink Champagne'
'Pink Fantasy'	'Pink Mink'
'Romantika'	'Rooguchi'
'Rouge Cardinal'	'Sunset'
'Sugar Sweet Lilac' - The Sugar-Sweet Series is a new line of wilt-resistant clematis with beautiful, fragrant flowers. Sugar-Sweet Lilac's fragrance is reminiscent of sweet honeysuckle. It is one of the only flat-petaled, larger-flowered, scented clematis in cultivation. In addition to the beautiful smell the flowers put on a stunning show with lilac-pink, star-shaped blooms.	'Sugar Sweet Blue' - The Sugar-Sweet Series is a new line of wilt-resistant clematis with beautiful, fragrant flowers. Sugar-Sweet Blue's fragrance is reminiscent of gardenias. It is one of the only flat-petaled, larger-flowered, scented clematis in cultivation. In addition to the beautiful smell the flowers put on a stunning show with blue, star-shaped blooms that develop silvery-white central stripes as they age.
'Sweet Summer Love' - Fragrant!	'Tie Dye'
'Ville de Lyon'	'Walter Pennell'
'Warsaw Nike'

The Riverside Passion Flowers These more tropical-looking friends of clematis can be grown on their own or planted with Clematis to intermingle blooming throughout the summer. These Riverside clematis are hardy to zone 8 and should be just as hardy as the hardy blue passionflower, P. caerulea, especially if you bury the stem 4-6" below ground when planting.
Passiflora 'Betty Myles Young' is a vigorous, very hardy passion flower that can be grown in containers or in the ground. It is evergreen down to -8 Celsius and hardy to about -12 Celsius. The blooms are up to 12 cm in diametre and lightly scented. The broad petals are pale to deep lilac with white central streaking that contrast perfectly with the maroon filaments. The fruits are large, decorative, and ripen to a yellow orange. Bury stems six inches deep to increase hardiness.	Passiflora 'Silly Cow' is a vigorous, very hardy passion flower that can be grown in containers or planted in the ground. It is evergreen down to - 8 Celsius and hardy to about -12 Celsius. The blooms are up to 12 cm in diametre. The broad petals have white to pale lilac centers and deep purple borders that contrast with the bright blue filaments. Rarely sets fruit. Bury stems six inches deep to increase hardiness.
Passiflora 'Star of Surbiton' - 'Star of Surbiton' is a vigorous, very hardy passion flower that can be grown in containers or planted in the ground. It is evergreen down to - 8 Celsius. The blooms are up to 12 cm in diametre and lightly scented. The broad petals are pure white and contrast dramatically with the bright blue filaments and pale pink centres. The fruits are large, decorative, and ripen to a yellow orange. Bury stems six inches deep to increase hardiness.

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One of the largest and most exciting selections of perennials in Canada.

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Richmond, BC | 604-270-4133 | www.phoenixperennials.com

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