Over breakfast not too long ago, inspiration hit one faithful follower of the company over breakfast. Next to the bowl of cereal sat a torn piece of cardboard. What was destined to become trash became the next item to be highly cherished around the Southern Bulb Company and to become a fixture on the dash [...]

It was a busy week traveling across Central Texas, but here is the long awaited blog and release of Crinum ‘Mrs. James Hendry.‘ Starting now, we have 60 available for sale. They never last for more than a couple of weeks on our website, so I am pleased we are able to do this. Enjoy! [...]

I will first note that I am working on the offering of Crinum ‘Mrs. James Hendry.’ It should be ready shortly, and we will have about 60 large bulbs and 3, what I call, behemoths. In the meantime, let me tell you how great the rain lily (also called fairy lilies) bloom has been! When [...]

This is yesterday’s blog. Yesterday started off in Houston with a big rubber duck greeting me after my breakfast. I was scared. I visited some existing retail garden center customers and began looking showing my bulbs to new customers. One particular new stop for me had a delightful staff and nice facilities—the Nelson Water Gardens [...]

We survived the tropical storm and everybody showed up to work today in Houston. With most of my morning meetings canceled, I visited a company that is making eco-waves in the garden and home world, the Olive Barn. The proprietor is Jacqueline D’Elia and the product is a smart line of responsibility produced in vogue [...]

I’m just trying to jump on the band wagon with the rest of the press agencies and increase my readership. It’s not really even a hurricane, just a tropical storm. Above are the outer bands looking from Houston to the northeast and this next picture is facing the southeast looking into the storm. Everyone who [...]

Harvest is done!We had 14 volunteers show up on Saturday morning. What a blessing they were. Not only did we harvest all that we needed harvested, we were able to plant a large crinum patch that I had not had the opportunity to prepare and plant.There were so many people to thank and I will [...]

Harvest is just about DONE! As of today, we have all of the Byzantines, butter and eggs, grand primos, twin sisters (April beauty), spider lilies, oxblood lilies, campernelles, Texas stars, and Texas tulips out of the ground. This is a picture of the pole barn after I went through the last crates about half an [...]