Far West Bulb Farm (California Native Bulb growers) Home Page


	**You are at *californianativebulbs.com* > Home WELCOME to californianativebulbs.com, the Web home of Far West Bulb Farm, and thank you for visiting. The 2011 season CLOSED on October 5th, 2011. The 2012 season will open around September, depending on harvest. E-mail us if you want to be reminded at the time (see 'About Us' page). Please note: We sell bulbs ONLY by mail order and ONLY when they are dormant, usually between September to October each year. This is a part–time project for us; we have other full–time jobs . . . A big THANK YOU to all our customers, we really appreciate your support. And thanks to our many visitors who gave us valuable feed-back and encouragement. Please see the bottom of the page for answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs). HOW THIS SITE WORKS: Click on any button on the left to move around the site (you can find where you are at any time by looking at the navigation bar at the top and bottom of every page). All the blue, underlined paths in the navigation bars are live links; click on them to move directly to that page. Scroll down this page to learn more about what each button does. The PLANT LIST button takes you to the illustrated online catalog showing the selection and prices of bulbs we offer for sale. It is updated when we finally know how the crop has turned out; that process is happening right now . . . • If you are in a hurry and know exactly what you are looking for, click here for our QUICK LIST. This is a short list by scientific name that showed what we had for sale in 2011. During the selling season, this list also shows our current inventory; we update it each day. The DOWNLOAD LIST button downloads —during the selling season only— the Order Form, Conditions of Sale, and Growing Instructions to your computer (outside the season, only the Growing Instructions are available). Print these, show your choices on the order form and send in with your payment (we don't take credit cards). You can't download the order form outside of the selling season. You will need "Adobe Acrobat Reader" to read and print the order form; if you don't have this program, it is available as a free download from Adobe. Click here: (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html) to go directly to their site, where you can download the version that matches your computer and operating system. • If you encounter problems downloading the file, save it to disk and then open the .pdf file. If you have a PC, right click on the link and save to the desktop, then double click on the pdf file when it is finished saving. If you have a Mac, hold down the mouse button over the link, save the file to the desktop, and open it from there. Click the HOW TO button to find out how we grow our bulbs (last updated Sept. 2003). Use this information any way you wish; we want to encourage people to grow and spread these wonderful bulbs as widely as possible. The last part is a brief list of useful references; we especially draw to your attention the beautifully illustrated book Wild Lilies, Irises and Grasses**: Gardening with California Monocots edited by Nora Harlow, Kristin Jakob (University of California Press) which covers detailed growing conditions for all the bulbs we sell. Also, if you find out something new, or have a better way of doing things, please tell us, and we'll pass it on! This section also lists resources that aren't on the web. And Nancy, a landscape designer with 30 years experience, has written a short article on gardening with native bulbs. Click here to see it. The PHOTO GALLERY button guides you on a tour of some native bulb flowers. Be aware that the pictures file sizes are larger than in our on-line catalog, and will take longer to download. We hope you'll enjoy them as you have the time. The LINKS button takes you to other interesting web sites which we think you'll find useful, including sites that show average precipitation maps for California and Oregon. Please tell us if there are other sites to which you think we should link. The ABOUT US button takes you to a page with more information about us, and how best to contact us by mail, phone or e-mail. Answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs)! Our mail–order–only, retail–only nursery is located in Grass Valley, Northern California. We grow and sell about thirty species of California native bulbs (the number varies according to harvest and other conditions each year), are experimenting with another thirty, and hope to add a few new ones each year if things go well. We do not export bulbs outside the contiguous United States. We don't sell seeds, but you can find seed sources in the "Links" section. We don't sell wholesale and no longer contract grow. All our bulbs are grown from seed or mother plant offsets/divisions; no bulbs are collected from the wild. Starting in 2004, we've sometimes sold bulbs grown by others, and we encourage more growers to contact us. We no longer accept order reservations in advance. Sorry, we don't do nursery tours, sell from our nursery, or make local deliveries. Note: we realize that our e-mail reminder scheme is not working for everyone. If you do not put our e-mail address on your whitelist and in your address book, our reminders may be treated as spam. Moreover, when we sent out e-mails last year, our provider refused messages in large groups, claiming they were spam! We had to send in much smaller groups, and this may not have worked for everyone. We apologize if you were relying on these reminders, and invite suggestions from knowledgeable readers. To bookmark this page, type CTRL-D (Apple-D on Macintosh) The photo used in the background above is of T. laxa on the bank of Hwy E20 just below Collin's Lake between Marysville and Brownsville in Northern California, May 7, 2002. This site became active July 17, 2002, and was last modified October 5, 2011. Back to TOP You are at *californianativebulbs.com* > Home All words and all images on all pages of this website ©2002—2011


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