As part of our year-long celebration of our 20th anniversary year, we’ve posted all 20 of our catalog covers online.

Although our first nine covers were all purple, and our first full-color covers are a bit embarrassing to us today (we’ve learned a lot since then!), we hope you’ll enjoy this 20-year retrospective.

We’ve included a few year-by-year highlights, too, and even if you don’t see your name mentioned in this very brief history, if you’ve helped in any way to make our first twenty years of “Save the Bulbs!” a reality and a joy – THANK YOU!

Amy’s ‘Boone’ – one is enough!

A huge bouquet of ‘Boone’ glads from our micro-farms was gracing our office work-table when an email arrived reminding us that even one ‘Boone’ can be a thrill.

“I just wanted to pass along a photo of my lovely ‘Boone’ gladiolus,” our good customer Amy Darnell of Columbia, Missouri, wrote. “I am so, so glad I bought it!”

Then the very next day the October issue of one of our favorite magazines, Fine Gardening, arrived with a big beautiful clump of ‘Boone’ on the cover! At first we didn’t recognize it because it looks vivid orange in the photo rather than the soft apricot it is in our gardens, but we know how hard it is to get flower colors just right.

Although the accompanying article says it’s hardy in zones 8-10 only and will probably need staking – which is usually true of mainstream glads – ‘Boone’ is a hardy perennial here in our zone-6a gardens, and we never stake it.

So now are you ready to grab a few for your own garden? As Amy says, you’ll be so, so glad you did!

‘Boone’s cousin ‘Carolina Primrose’ (here in our micro-farms) is also zone-6 hardy and never needs staking.

‘Boone’ glows on the cover
of Fine Gardening, Oct. 2012.