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About Us
Welcome to Island Passions Nursery!
Our focus is on the plants that will put the WOW factor into your yard or patio.
Our plants are often described as long blooming, eye catching and definitely different!
We would like to say its all about how we grow them but often its more about genetics.
We choose to grow and sell only select proven cultivars of unusual plants.
Many of the cultivars we offer are not available anywhere else on the island.
This website also contains important growing and care tips in our blog for many of our plants. Our blog goes beyond the basic information plant tags give you. We are certain it can save you time and money and most importantly help you get the very best show out of your plants even plants obtained from other sources.
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The most asked question we receive is, What is the plant in the picture above? This is one of the flowers of the Mexican Snowball. It is our most popular plant. They bloom continually for six to seven months and the hummingbirds can't resist it. This plant is easier than maintaining a hummingbird feeder and a lot better for the birds.
Please note our location is on Roome Road in Duncan but we are only open to the public a couple days every year. Saturday April 27th, Sunday April 28th, and Sunday May 5th from 9am to 3pm.
Saturday April 27th is also our very popular palm tree event.
Please see our palm section below for details.
Our website also has other options regarding where to obtain our plants,
We are BIG on flowers and fragrance.
Angel Trumpets blow away everything else for large fragrant flower shows.
This is a plant that they put in municipal parks like Beacon Hill Park as the show is amazing and the deer will never touch it as its a poisonous plant.
In case you are worried it is a poisonous plant please consider this. You probably already have several poisonous plants in your yard. Rhodos, Foxgloves, Hydrangea, Daffodils and Cedars are poisonous just to name a few.
Please note our cultivars are proven cultivars that offer a significantly better show than most of the plants offered elsewhere.
Prices vary depending on the size of the plant.
Please note this plant will likely sell out by end of sales day Sunday May 5th
Our blog has a dedicated posting for the purchasing and caring for Angels Trumpets to assist you in getting the most out of your Angels Trumpets.
Or maybe you want a fast bold tropical statement!
These are King Kong Cannas.
They will get 7 to 9 feet tall in one season.
7 feet in a pot
9 feet in the ground
These can easily fill a 10 gallon pot in one season!
The picture above is a 10 gallon pot that grew from one of our two gallon sales pots
Other cannas cannot compete with this one for vigorous growth. These also draw hummingbirds from May to October.
Note *These Cannas are disease free. This variety does not seem to be susceptible to the canna virus that is already present in many other cannas available to you elsewhere.
$25 per 2 gallon pot.
Our blog has a dedicated posting for tips on growing cannas.
Some of our plants
Aeonium Zwartkop
Aeonium Zwartkop
Aeonium Zwartkop
This is a succulent that grabs attention.
It starts out with larger than softball size heads and quickly grows to twice that size with a ring of smaller heads developing under the original.
The polished almost black cherry heads with a lime green center are a joy to watch grow.
$25 each.
Giant Lilies
Aeonium Zwartkop
Aeonium Zwartkop
Our giant lilies multiply like normal lilies but deliver bigger flowers that just grab your attention.
Zelmira, African Lady and Purple Prince are back for 2024.
New ones for 2024 are Big Smile and Hotel California to name a few.
$18 per pot containing two.
Also available is a spectacular martagon lily called black beauty. Crazy name as its not black at all. Color wise it resembles the Stargazer but one stem can have 20+ flowers on the second year. Even more in following years. This one blooms a very long time.
$18 per pot containing two.
Mexican Snowballs
Aeonium Zwartkop
Canadian made Palm Trees
This plant continually produces stems of Candy-corn looking flowers in the shape of hearts for 6 to 7 months.
We have never seen another succulent bloom interesting flowers for anywhere near that long.
It draws hummingbirds like crazy. We suggest you put it where you spend your time. It makes a great patio table plant and the hummingbirds will visit many times daily.
This plant is very popular for Mothers Day for all the reasons above. Its certainly one your Mom will enjoy for far longer than a bouquet of flowers.
** Please note we no longer supply these plants to grocery stores except Sweet Meadows in Cobble Hill.
$18 each
Canadian made Palm Trees
Our Passion Flowers bloom non-stop.
Canadian made Palm Trees
Palm trees can have VERY different traits within the species. Ours are grown from seed harvested from the fantastic Vancouver island palms pictured above.
The main difference with ours is the fans. The fans are much more rigid than others so they withstand the elements way better and the resulting appearance of the palm is night and day different from others.
Be picky when shopping for palms. You cant make a genetically weak palm great.
Ours are 3 foot tall minimum in five gallon pots for $75 each.
48 available for 2024.
( Most are 3+ feet tall )
We also have 4 + foot tall palms in 10 gallon pots for $125.
25 available.
( Most are 4+ feet tall ) Easily the best price for this size and quality on the island.
Our blog has dedicated postings to assist you in the purchasing and the planting and care of palm trees.
Regardless of where you end up obtaining your palm trees we really encourage you to review our blog postings before you purchase palm trees.
Stunning Rose Lillies
Our Passion Flowers bloom non-stop.
Our Passion Flowers bloom non-stop.
Flowers that just amaze!
That is my arm in the picture
These produce three times the petals and bloom twice as long as normal lilies. These have very little to no pollen depending which ones you pick.
Their longer bloom time and near zero pollen also make them excellent cut flowers.
Rose lilies are an easy dependable show that gets bigger every year.
This year we have the very popular Anouska. We will also have Nowa, Sita, Ezra, and Samantha. Thalita the tall variety is back after a few years of not being available. So if you got the others last year you did not get Thalita.
The variety in the picture is Thalita. It is a tall variety built off of the ever popular stargazer.
So imagine a stargazer that has more show then the original and blooms twice as long!
$18 each per pot containing two per pot.
Our Passion Flowers bloom non-stop.
Our Passion Flowers bloom non-stop.
Our Passion Flowers bloom non-stop.
These are the plants that launched our business in 2003.
Often you will find them in areas frequented by tourists as very few plants grow fast and bloom interesting flowers continuously from May to late October.
They are very versatile as we have grown them in half shade all the way up to full sun.
We will have the double blue called Clear Sky and a double white called White Wedding.
It is very unlikely you will find these varieties at any other nursery. They outperform all other blue and white passion flowers.
They will climb or you can try something REALLY different. You can put one in a hanging basket and get a completely different look from other hanging baskets.
This is also a hanging basket you won't have to rebuy or replant every year.
$25 each
Dwarf Butterfly Bushes that bloom the entire season
Dwarf Butterfly Bushes that bloom the entire season
Dwarf Butterfly Bushes that bloom the entire season
Ours are the Buzz series of dwarf butterfly bushes that produce an astonishing amount of flowers on compact three and half foot tall plants. These even work in planters.
These flower from May all the way to mid October and the fragrance is fantastic.
You will see many other dwarf Butterfly bushes out there but we find some are actually way too small even for a dwarf.
In our own trials Buzz Hot Raspberry provides by far the best results of all dwarf butterfly bushes and we have tried a lot of dwarf butterfly bushes. Ours will get 3.5 feet tall and wide. Fantastic in a deck pot or wherever you spend your time.
$25 each per 2 gallon pots. Two year old plants.
Spotted Giant Calla.
Dwarf Butterfly Bushes that bloom the entire season
Dwarf Butterfly Bushes that bloom the entire season
Everything about these is significantly bigger and better than other callas.
Huge leathery leaves.
Enormous flowers and a subtle fragrance that is simply amazing!
They make absolutely stunning cut flowers if you can find a vase big enough. They last three weeks as a cut flower. You just can't bring them in if you have a cat. For whatever reason cats seem to leave callas alone in the yard but in the house they might eat them and it wont go well for the cat.
The deer never touch this Calla.
Prices vary depending on the size of the plants.
Please note this plant will sell out Saturday April 27th.
Hardy Orchids
Dwarf Butterfly Bushes that bloom the entire season
Hardy Orchids
Yes, you can grow hardy orchids here!
These are compact plants that clump up and produce many more as time passes.
These are incredibly hardy and even colder zones are growing these.
These make excellent cut flowers as well.
We have Bletilla Blue Dragon and Bletilla Shi Ran.
New for 2024 is a pink variety.
$18 each