Dear Friends
New list - season 2026 - offer closed
SORRY - I just found that my income quota is completely full and I must cancel accepting of new orders. Request for my bulbs was much larger than I could even image!
Thank you for confidence to me and my job!
I really appreciate it!
If my health will allow, I will open new offer for 2027 at end of this year
May be I will found person who will take care for part of my collection and then I will accent only on crocuses
Since my nursery is registered as a small farm, I have a limited allowed amount of annual income to maintain this status. Otherwise, I would have to hire a certified public accountant and provide monthly tax reports. Therefore, I carefully watch that the total volume of sales does not exceed the allowed limit, and as soon as it approaches, I stop accepting new orders.
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Dear friends and garden lovers!
Another garden season has passed. I turn 80 this year – it would be time to become calmer, but is a gardener really capable of being that? Although I promise to reduce the collection every year, after a dramatic pruning many years ago, it has started to grow again. The inventory of the collection shows that at the turn of the year, more than 4,800 different bulbous plant specimens (including 2,000 crocus specimens) were registered, planted in 12,162 pots and 97 containers, which is again more than it was a year ago. True, many samples consist of only one or a few specimens. It remains too difficult for me to maintain and care for it all, and, nevertheless, in the 2025 season I went on 4 trips to the mountains – to Iran, North Macedonia, Albania and Greece, to look for something new, something I had not seen before, and the collection was supplemented by 143 new samples. Of course, only a few specimens are collected from each sample, which are later studied, described and propagated in my nursery from seeds. I never offer wild-collected plants in my catalogue. All the plants offered are carefully grown and propagated on site in our nursery “Jaunrūjas”.
Preparing a catalogue every year causes great problems – the basic question of what to offer and what to leave out of the offer. I no longer have as much strength as I used to, when the offer every year had more than 700 names. At the moment I have decided to limit offer to 300 varieties. Easy to accept, but difficult to realize. When compiling the new list, I first excluded all the plants offered last year, and then I returned some to the list. And as a result, an offer of 430 names was created. The most dramatically I reduced offer of crocuses which dominated last season in favour of other plants.
This is probably my last general catalogue. I no longer have so much strength to continue working in the same volume. I will hardly go on expeditions anymore. Then I can survive on my pension in the countryside. I will probably offer something a little while longer, as long as I can. Of course, as always, you can also add your special wishes that are not mentioned in the catalog. If possible, I will try to fulfill them. I just warn you that my nursery is registered as a small farm and I am not a VAT payer. So, I have a limited allowed amount of annual income to maintain this status. Otherwise, I would have to hire a certified public accountant and provide monthly tax reports. Therefore, I carefully watch that the total volume of sales does not exceed the allowed limit, and as soon as it approaches, I stop accepting new orders. Last year it was reached already in January, so if you want to receive the intended plants, do not delay in ordering
Despite the high inflation, my prices in general have remained the same, only in a few cases they have been raised and sometimesd also lowered. This mainly depends from the quantity of bulbs in my collection - if offered stock is small and most likely the demand will be greater than my capabilities, I sometimes raised price. All the bulbs I offer are only grown by myself and I do not buy them for resale. I never sell wild-harvested bulbs or those grown by others. My specimens are mostly propagated by seed and during the flowering season one of my main jobs (without research) is to walk around the greenhouse with a bunch of brushes in my hands pollinating the flowers. Of course, I cannot rule out the interference of bees and bumblebees in my work. I can't isolate the flowers, and therefore some hybrids can appear now and then among the seedlings.
I dispatch ordered bulbs immediately after harvesting - already in June and July at the latest, in line of ordering. Pre-paid orders are dispatched first. Prepayment is mandatory for the first-time customers. Exceptions will not be allowed this year, as last year 2 customers have not yet paid for their orders. I cannot send bulbs/seeds to Australia and New Zealand, I do not serve customers from Russia and Belorussia. USA customers must send me import permit and green/yellow label together with order. Before Trump came to power, this was not mandatory, but since his "orgies" began, officials have been terrified and scrupulously follow all formalities.
Sincerely Yours
Jānis Rukšāns, Dr. biol. h.c.
If you have problems with login, send your wishlist to me directly by my e-mail address listing item number, its name, number of bulbs ordered and total summ of your order. I will do the rest. Item number is obligatory!!!
OPEN DOOR DAYS
This year we again will have CROCUS DAYS - when every one can come and watch my collection on place. Crocus blooming time last season started mid-February, but if winter will be "normal" - it will be in March so we will accept visitors during daylight at any sunny day. Only, please, inform us about your coming at least day before.
Contact me by e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for details
Mid-june at our place usually is PEONY DAY, the last Sunday of July and the first Sunday of August will be PHLOX DAYS organized by my wife Guna who runs perennial nursery - peonies, phlox, hosta, waterlilies etc. All summer perennials you can buy in situ - coming to our nursery. We offer bare rooted or potted plants which can't be dispatched abroad by post, so you must come by yourself to pick them up.
Her e-mail address is the same as mine.
PLEASE RECHECK THE TERMS OF BUSINESS!
Some our customers had problems with ordering, so follow instruction step by step as written below, and it will work without any problems:
Log in with your password.
Open catalogue,
select items and numbers of each,
add to Cart,
when finished at top of page go to “Basket”
On right bottom corner – Checkout
Enter your name and address, e-mail
and delivery address (if different) or write in each box - xx
Then Next (left bottom corner)
Then enter 0 in field Phyto (or 20,- if phyto is needed), 15,- for EU or 20,- for out of EU in field postage costs, 0 in field Bank costs
Then Next
Check your order and put “x” in box “Terms of Business”
Confirm Order
and it will be sent to me automatically.
Attention! When you will complete your order, don't leave empty boxes for phytocertificate costs (write there - 0.00 if you live in EU), postage costs (at least 15.00 for EU and at least 20.00 for others) and bank costs. You must enter at least "0" in each box. Payment box is only for information how and where (when) you will pay for your order. You must write this in the field. It is not joyned with bank accounts. Sorry.
Wishing you a nice gardening season, sincerely Yours
Janis Ruksans
