A new and exclusive daffodil, Faith, and a new Chilean crocus bulb, Tecophilaea cyanocrocus var. leichtlinii, star in the de Jager Autumn 2010 collection. Faith made its British debut with a stunning display at RHS Wisley in April 2010.  5,000 bulbs, donated by de Jager, bloomed in the canal area in front of the Wisley laboratory prompting garden visitors to ring de Jager to compliment them on the fantastic show. As only a limited number of bulbs were available for Spring 2010 they were only available to members of the Women’s Institute through de Jager’s WI bulb scheme.

Daffodil Faith is an outward facing daffodil, which is bright white with a trumpet shaped glorious pink cup and a rolled rim. It flowers in April at a height of 16 ins and the bulb size is 12-14cm.  The Chilean Crocus, Tecophilaea cyanocrocus var. leichtlinii, has petals that are an intense vivid gentian blue with a white throat. Its flowers are 2 inches across when fully open. The bulb has had limited availability in this country but now de Jager is making it more widely available by offering it in the new Autumn Bulb Catalogue.

Says de Jager owner, George Clowes, “We only managed to procure a limited number of the beautiful Faith daffodils last season so we donated some to Wisley and offered some for sale to WI members. The rest we used to increase our stocks for the Autumn 2010 catalogue so that we can now make them available to everyone.”

The new catalogue contains over 620 spring flowering bulbs, including 64 varieties which are either new or re-introductions. de Jager prides itself on sourcing a wide range of interesting and unusual varieties for its customers having only supplied top quality, top size bulb since 1868.

The new de Jager Tulip Festivals at six highly prestigious historic properties across England and Ireland - Alnwick Garden; Chatsworth; Leeds Castle; Powerscourt, Ireland; Lost Gardens of Heligan and Waddesdon Manor were highly successful despite the fact that, due to the cold Spring, tulips were late blooming at some venues.  Watch out for the dates to be announced for the 2011 Festivals.

de Jager is also continuing to work hard through the new catalogue to raise substantial funds for breast cancer charities from the sale of a specially branded ‘‘Pink Bulb Range’’, having handed over £10,000 to Breast Cancer Campaign for the 2009/2010 season. When de Jager customers order from the ‘‘Pink Bulb Range’’ identified by the breast cancer pink ribbon in the catalogue and on its website www.dejager.co.uk, 10% of the sale of those bulbs will go to breast cancer charities.

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Contact Sue Hinton or David Saunderson of DSH PR on 01252 408820, email sue@dshpr.co.uk. Issued by DSH PR www.dshpr.co.uk on behalf of P. de Jager & Sons Limited.