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Sombrero® Granada Gold Coneflower, Echinacea ‘Balsomold’ PP30115; EU PBR52416; US7,982,110: Consistently in the top 10 in Coneflower trials! Brilliant golden yellow ray petals surround the fragrant golden tipped cones creating the 3” wide long-lasting, non-fading flowers perched atop sturdy 18” stems. The Sombrero® Granada Gold Coneflower or Echinacea was selected as much for its bright, long-lasting, non-fading color as well as for its excellent summerlong flower power, clean foliage, and neat and tidy habit. Photos courtesy of Darwin Perennials®, all rights reserved.
Passion Fruit Lantana, Lantana ‘Ballanpaf’ PPAF: Possibly the brightest colored trailing Lantana on the market and both our staff and our pollinators have totally fallen in love with it! The rounded flower clusters open a deep orange-yellow, deepen through orange tones, and mature to deep fuchsia attracting a variety of bees, butterflies, and other garden beneficials throughout the growing season. Passion Fruit Lantana is a trailing selection perfectly suited to hanging basket and container culture whether as specimens or in mixed company and will also make a statement in the garden and landscape as a groundcover or enmasse.
Lemon POPSICLE™ Dwarf Kniphofia or Torch Lily, Kniphofia ‘Lemon Popsicle’ USPP24011; EU38300: Large dense spikes of bright sunny yellow tubular flowers are held above the deep green foliage beginning in late spring and continuing into fall attracting a variety of pollinators. Lemon POPSICLE™ Kniphofia is a dwarf, repeat flowering perennial and is small and compact enough to enjoy in containers or as easy, colorful, and low maintenance additions to the sunny garden and landscape. Grows to about 18”H x 14”W. Image courtesy of Terra Nova Nurseries, www.terranovanurseries.com, all rights reserved.
Watermelon Ruffles Perennial Hibiscus, Hardy Hibiscus, Hibiscus x ‘Watermelon Ruffles’ PPAF: One of the most exciting new Hardy Hibiscus introductions for 2024! The medium to large, 7” wide, heavily ruffled, bright magenta flowers with a slightly darker eye are set against a foil of deep green, bronze tinged foliage. Watermelon Ruffles Hardy or Perennial Hibiscus is an indeterminate type meaning that they both begin flowering earlier and flower all up and down the stems instead of just on the upper half of the plant creating a knockout display in the garden and landscape. Image courtesy of Walter’s Gardens, Inc., all rights reserved.
Plum Crazy Salvia or Anise Sage, Salvia ‘Balsalpazy’ PP35288: A star in 2023 trials and was reported especially popular with polllinators! The large, 2” long, tubular, deep red-purple flowers emerge from even darker burgundy spikes and calyxes from spring to fall attracting a host of pollinators including hummingbirds, larger butterflies, and larger bees. Plum Crazy Salvia, a hybrid with Salvia guaranitica and S. splendens in its parentage, is a clump forming, herbaceous perennial growing to about 3-4’ high and wide and is adorned with deep green foliage. Use these types of Salvias in the garden and landscape for dazzling summer color or in medium to large mixed or specimen containers to draw the pollinators in close. Image courtesy of Ball Horticulture, Inc., all rights reserved.
HEARTLAND™ Sunset 2024 Lantana: The rounded clusters of flowers open a deep yellow and quickly deepen through shades of orange and finally maturing into pink tones. HEARTLAND™ Sunset 2024 Lantana is a new more vigorous cousin to the HAVANA™ series growing to about 18-24” high and wide making these great choices for colorful containers as well as in the garden and landscape. This series is a better choice for a smaller growing Lantana where growing seasons tend to be cooler and shorter. The HEARTLAND™ Lantana series are nearly sterile producing almost no fruit or viable seed thus these plants can spend their energy on flower and nectar production. They start flowering earlier giving you a longer season of color from spring into fall attracting a myriad of pollinators throughout the growing season.
Mocha Moon Perennial or Hardy Hibiscus, Hibiscus x ‘Mocha Moon’ PP27837: A knockout combination! The large, 7-8” wide, white to very pale pink flowers with large starkly contrasting scarlet eye that is surrounded by a narrow fuchsia halo that bleeds out into overlapping petals and are set against a dark backdrop of deep burgundy to deep green maple-like foliage. Mocha Moon Perennial or Hardy Hibiscus is a moderately vigorous growing, clump forming, herbaceous perennial building to about 4’ high and 5-6’ wide at maturity. Like most of the newer Hibiscus developed by Walter’s Gardens, Mocha Moon is an indeterminate type meaning that the plants both begin flowering earlier and flower all up and down the stems instead of just on the upper half of the plant creating a knockout display in the garden and landscape. Image courtesy of Walter’s Gardens, Inc., all rights reserved.
COLORBURST™ Deep Red Cape Fuchsia, Cape Figwort, Phygelius, Phygelius x rectus ‘TNPHYCDR’ PP31397: The dark maroon spikes to 30” high are adorned with clusters of dangling 2” long tubular bright red flowers that flare at their ends and are produced in cycles throughout the growing season attracting a variety of pollinators but especially hummingbirds. COLORBURST™ Deep Red Cape Fuchsia, a hybrid Phygelius, is a clump forming, heat and humidity tolerant perennial that is normally relegated to the West Coast but newer cultivars and hybrids like this one are showing that these plants can be enjoyed in the Southeast as well. They will do best in an acidic, well-draining, fertile, moist to average moist soil and can be enjoyed as both container specimens as well as in the garden and landscape. Image courtesy of Terra Nova Nurseries, www.terranovanurseries.com, all rights reserved.
Welcome to Almost Eden
At Almost Eden we specialize in beautiful, unusual and hard to find plants including a large variety of native plants. Our stock encompasses over 1000 varieties/species, spanning 100 different plant families for your home and garden. Our plants are live, growing and well-rooted plants often flowering or large enough to begin flowering when they are shipped with the soil and container intact. We have an excellent selection of plants for pollinators including plants for hummingbird gardens, butterfly gardens, plants that attract a variety of native bees as well as honey bees and even plants for hummingbird moths. We offer unusual and hard to find tropicals like the old fashioned types of free flowering Chinese Hibiscus, the intensely fragrant Night Blooming Jasmine, the true Jasmines and Night Blooming Cereus, as well as a variety of fragrant Angel's Trumpets and Epiphyllums (Orchid Cacti). Each year we add more and more perennials from the tried and true heirlooms, to the easy to grow natives to some of the hottest new varieties out there! We grow a variety of shrubs including a large selection of Camellias as well as deciduous Azaleas, Hydrangeas, Butterfly Bushes and many more unusual and hard to find varieties. Vines include a selection of beautiful and intriguing Passion Flowers, Pipevines, Firecracker Vines, Coral Vines in 3 colors, Coral Honeysuckles, Climbing Roses and many more. Trees include many native species but our Crybaby Trees may be the most popular item on that list! John has a huge collection of figs and each year he works diligently to offer ever more varieties so check back often to see what's available. You can also sign up for our periodic (3-5 times per year normally) newsletter here. We will not send you SPAM nor share, sell, or otherwise distribute your personal information.
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Planting and Growing Guides
You've got your new plants so now what do you do with them? We have a selection of Growing Guides specific to Planting New Container Grown Plants in the Garden and Landscape, Uppotting and Repotting Container Grown Plants - includes soil selection, what yellow or brown foliage and green soil indicate, proper watering techniques for containers, as well as individual growing guides specific to various plant types including: Azaleas, Cactus and Succulents, Camellias, Gardenias, Honeysuckles, Hardy or Perennial Hibiscus, Night Blooming Cereus and Epiphyllums, Sambac Jasmines, and more. You can find our Growing Guides page from any page on our website. These are designed for beginning gardeners but have pearls of wisdom that even advanced gardeners may find useful. It is our sincere hope that these guides will help to get your plants growing and thriving for season after season!
Out of Stock Products
The plants that we currently have listed in our online catalog are all plants that we intend to offer in the 2024 season. There may be a few rare exceptions that remain on here for information purposes but we are working toward making those available in the coming seasons. To be notified, when an out of stock product becomes available again, go to the plant's individual product page by clicking the "Details & Growing Info" link OR by clicking on the plant's image in our online catalog. Just click the 'Email me when ready' link below the 'Out of Stock' notice and our system will send you a one-time automatic email letting you know the product is available. You do need to be registered and must be signed in to our website for this feature to work. This action does not add you to any other mailing lists. We do not share, sell or otherwise give out our customer's information nor will we send you loads of SPAM. If you are interested you are welcome to sign up to receive our periodic newsletter by clicking here.
Shipping
We understand what healthy quality plants should look like and our specially designed packaging system will get them from our greenhouse to your doorstep looking as though they were just plucked from the nursery. We ensure that your plants are secured safely in their soil and container. Our specially designed shipping and packaging system will get your plants to you quickly, carefully and easily via the FedEx and USPS to anywhere in the US. We will send an email stating when your order will ship and confirming the order information for verification. Please be sure to check your Spam or Junk mail if you don't hear from us within a day or two from when you place your order. Orders are normally shipped as early as possible each week to ensure that your plants do not spend the weekend unneccessarily in a warehouse. Be sure to get your order and payment in by Wednesday at 11:59PM CST, for it to ship out the following Monday. See our Shipping page for more details.
Tracking Your Shipment: We have upgraded our packaging system so that your shipping address is verified with FedEx or USPS prior to shipping and each package is automatically assigned a tracking number. The instant we print the shipping label for your package you are immediately sent an email that includes your tracking number and a link to the FedEx website (for orders shipped within the lower 48 states or Shipping Zones 1-8) or the the USPS website (for all other shipping areas or Shipping Zone 9) where you can track your package until it arrives safely at your doorstep. If you made the order while logged into our system as a registered customer, you will also have the ability to check the status of your order and get your tracking information from the My Account or Account Management & Customer Service area. Please note that your tracking email will originate from either FedEx.com, @fedex.com, or USPS.com, @usps.com, so please add the appropriate domain(s) to your email whitelist to ensure you receive status updates and tracking information about your order.
Note As of 9/1/2023: Unfortunately due to higher shipping fees and material costs we have had to update our shipping charges. Shipping charges are now zip code-zone based in combination with the number of plant units in your order: plants in 2.25-4.5 inch pots count as 1 unit each and quart sized pots are counted as 2 units each due to their higher weight and size. In an effort to economize costs, the shipping charges are now the same for 1-4 plant units and are then increased in multiples of 4 units each. In other words, assuming all pots sizes in the order are 2.25, 3.5, or 4.5 inch pots, it costs as much to ship 1 plant as it does for 4 plants, and then it costs the same to ship 5 plants as it does 8 plants. By filling the box out the shipping cost per plant will be the most economical.
You can find your shipping cost by clicking the Calculate shipping cost link in the minicart for users on a PC or Mac and from the View Cart page on mobile platforms. Registered customers who are logged into the website will automatically have their shipping costs updated while they shop. Enter your zip code here to find your FedEx/USPS shipping zone, total plant units, and shipping cost.
Our Customer Service Hours and Onsite Visits
Please enjoy your stroll through our online catalog and if at anytime you have any questions or comments please feel free to contact us. Our customer service phone hours are from about 8AM-5PM CST daily. Please Note: We do not offer onsite sales and can only offer curbside pickup if arrangements have been made with our staff. Feel free to call us anytime during normal hours and John will do his best to take your call.
Our nursery and gardens are only open to visitors who have a pre-scheduled visit set up. The following contact information is clickable:
( 337 ) 375 - 2114
1240 Smith Rd
Merryville, LA 70653
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