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Updates
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July 01, 2010 |
Schedule Change: We are now on our summer schedule. Open Wednesday to
Saturday, 10am - 6pm. Open Sunday, 10am - 5pm. Closed on Monday & Tuesday. |
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April 22, 2010 |
Water Gardening: Our water gardening section is now stocked with a
variety of marginal, shallow-water & deep-water aquatic plants. Water Hawthorn
now in flower (vanilla scent). |
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April 19, 2010 |
New Tillandsia shipment: This large shipment of 1000 plants features
various species & hybrids.
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April 16, 2010 |
New Aquatic plant shipment: This shipment featured floating plants (water
hyacinth, water lettuce, hornwort), tropical water lillies (blues & purples) and
other pond plants. |
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April 04, 2010 |
New Orchids for 2010: We will be receiving a large shipment of species
orchids from Brazil in late spring. Due to the paperwork required for orchid
shipments (CITES & phytosanitary certificate), we do not have a firm arrival
date at this time. We will also be receiving a shipment of hardy orchids
(Cypripedium species) in April.
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February 23, 2010 |
Website Updates:
Our Venus Flytrap page has now been updated to include photos & descriptions of
cultivars from Triffid Park of Australia. This shipment arrived in July of 2009.
The plants are now adjusted to the northern hemisphere seasons & will be ready
for sale this spring:
Triffid Park |
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February 10, 2010 |
Public Transit information:
Customers who plan on using public transit to visit our nursery now have the
option of travelling on the Canada Line SkyTrain for part of their journey.
Please view our 'About Us' page for suggested routing from Vancouver. |
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February 01, 2010 |
2010 Winter Hours: We are
now on our 2010 winter schedule. February hours of operation are Wednesday to
Saturday, 10 am - 4pm, Sunday 12pm - 4 pm. Closed on Monday & Tuesday. Please
view our 'About Us' page for additional information. |
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November 18, 2009 |
New Tillandsia shipment
arrival: This large shipment of 'Air Plants' is now in the labeling process
and will be ready for sale beginning Sunday, Nov. 22.
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October 17, 2009 |
Borneo Exotics Autumn Shipment:
The shipment arrived at the Vancouver International Airport today. This
shipment contains some rarer Nepenthes species and also specimens of Cephalotus
follicularis (Australian Pitcher Plant). |
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Sept.15, 2009 |
New Shipment, October 2009: In order to take advantage of
the recent release of Nepenthes truncata 'Queen of Hearts' x 'King of
Spades', we will be receiving a new shipment from Borneo Exotics in
early October. Customers wishing to place orders for BE plants can view the
current price/availability list @
Fall Shipment. Pricing is in Canadian dollars,
landed at our nursery in Richmond, BC. |
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July 10, 2009 |
The shipment of Venus
Flytraps has arrived & is now available. View photos
& pricing @
New Flytraps
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July 03, 2009 |
Triffid Park shipment:
The shipment of Venus Flytraps has been packed and
is now in the hands of the air carrier. |
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June 28, 2009 |
Arriving in mid-July:
a plethora of Venus Flytraps from Triffid Park of
Australia. The shipment will include these flytrap
cultivars: 'Big Mouth', 'Big Vigorous', 'Bristle
Tooth', 'Clayton's Red Sunset', 'Cross Teeth', 'Dutch
Delight', 'Low Giant', 'Pink Venus', 'Red Piranha',
'Royal Red', 'Shark's Teeth', 'Triffid Traps', and
'Vigorous'. |
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May 18, 2009 |
We will be open on Victoria
Day: Monday, May 18. This is the only Monday of
the year that we're open for business. Koi enthusiasts
may want to take advantage of our koi sale on Victoria
Day: buy one 4" to 8" koi at our regular price and
purchase a second koi of same size at 1/2 price.
No limit on quantity. A purchase of 10 koi = 5 @
regular price, 5 @ 1/2 price. |
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May 09, 2009 |
Koi & Goldfish: Our
spring shipment of Israeli koi in premium and select
grades arrived on May 4. The koi will be released
from quarantine on May 27. The goldfish are available
now. |
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April 02, 2009 |
Borneo Exotics
shipment update: The CFIA has inspected the shipment
& released all of the plants. The plants are now
ready for pick-up or shipment for customers whom
have pre-ordered. Please email or phone us to arrange
your pick-up or shipping date. Our thanks
to the Borneo Exotics staff for the care & effort
required in the bare-rooting & packing of this shipment.
This is very labour-intensive work.
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April
01, 2009 |
Borneo Exotics
shipment update: Our shipment of Nepenthes & Heliamphora
has now arrived and is awaiting inspection by the
CFIA at our nursery. |
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March 27, 2009 |
Borneo Exotics
shipment update: We have been informed that our
shipment of Nepenthes & Heliamphora will be leaving
Sri Lanka on March 31. We expect to have the plants
ready for customer pick-up on Saturday, April 4.
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March 14, 2009 |
Borneo Exotics shipment:
We have confirmed the final listing of all plants
in our order. BE is now obtaining the paperwork
for the shipment. We expect the shipment arrival
in 10 days - 2 weeks (last week of March). |
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February 14, 2009 |
New Sarracenia
(North American pitcher plants) added to our carnivorous
plant availability list. Our Sarracenia propagation
greenhouse (built 2007) has now made it possible
to lower our retail prices. Read more @
Pitcher Plants
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February 03, 2009 |
Nepenthes & Heliamphora spring
orders: We have now completed and uploaded our 2009
pricelist for pre-ordered Nepenthes & Heliamphora
species/hybrids. |
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January 28, 2009 |
Our new shipment of
carnivorous plants arrived from the lab on January
21 and is acclimatizing in our greenhouses. New
growth is now visible & the shipment will be available
for sale starting February 2. This shipment included
unusual tropical sundews endemic to Northern Australia
and Butterworts indigenous to Mexico. Please visit
our carnivorous plant pages for more information.
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January 05, 2009 |
A reminder to visitors:
Our greenhouse is open by appointment only throughout
January. To make an appointment, please phone 604-270-7712.
Thank you.
Out-of-town orders are processed and shipped as
per our regular schedule. A heat pack
(cost: $3.00) is included with all winter
shipments. |
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November 07, 2008 |
Miniature Bromeliads:
Our shipment of hybrids from Hawai'i has arrived.
Available now. To view images, cultivar names &
pricing of this shipment, please visit
the Bromeliad section of our website (under 'Exotic
Plants'). Although a Tillandsia and a Billbergia
are pictured in the images below, we did not include
these particular plants in the new shipment as we
presently have good quantities of both genera in
stock. Images below provided by the Hawaiian
grower. |
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New Hawaiian Bromeliad Shipment (click
thumbnails for larger image)
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November 03, 2008 |
Update:
new Terrarium pages on our website. We've been aware
of the need for this section for quite a while.
Basically, we'll sort through all our plants and
create a Terrarium index page with an emphasis on
smaller tropical plants, suitable for terrariums.
This new section will be uploaded shortly, and filled
in with listings and information over the winter.
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May 26, 2008 |
New hardy orchid species
now available in our outdoor 'Hardy Exotics' area.
To view images, descriptions & prices online, please
go to our 'Hardy Exotics' page & click the 'Orchids,
Hardy' tab. |
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April 11, 2008 |
Just arrived: assorted pond plants. Irises, dwarf cattails,
potted oxygenators, sedges & more. Established water lilies also in stock. |
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April 10, 2008
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2008 shipment of beautiful
Israeli koi now available for sale in our 'koi house'. |
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April 9, 2008
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New Tillandsia (Air
Plant) shipment has arrived. |
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April 4, 2008
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New shipment of Fafard
clay-based aquatic soil has arrived. 18 litre bag:
$12.75 |
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March 26, 2008
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New shipment of koi
due to be released from 3 week quarantine period
(required for all importations of koi into BC).
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March 26, 2008
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New shipment of water
lilies & lotus. Now available bare-root for shipping. |
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