I noticed years ago that the crinum world was really like a big club. Mostly, we crinophiles are backyard nurseries and hobby plots. What’s more, we always will be, as crinum plants tend to be too slow, too lanky and too weird for giant nurseries to produce efficiently.

What that used to mean for gardeners, is that finding what you want, getting to those crinum growers and getting a good, healthy, properly named bulb was difficult. Sometimes, excruciating. One customer, from Rome, Georgia, called to say she tried to buy from a crinum dealer in California who interviewed her for one hour and twenty minutes, by cell phone, before deciding if he would sell to her.

Jenks, Tom and the Lushlife family decided to change all that – Crinum Missionaries! Crinums for the masses!

Lushlife Nursery was set up 12 years to make crinum shopping easy, reliable and consistent. We offer homegrown, tried and true, healthy crinum. We offer only the most reliable, garden worthy selections. We try lots of new varieties, in our garden, and then propagate only the best for the southern region of the U.S.

You know how Target claims to ‘get design to the mass’? We were doing that with crinums when crinums weren’t cool!

• A healthy bulb
• A bulb that is at least 8” circumference.
• A bulb that has been washed and dipped in a light bleach bath, then dried. (This kills soil born pathogens)
• A bulb that is properly named and obviously marked so that you can tell which bulb is which.
• A package that is packed and tied by hand, in corrugated paper and standard sized boxes.
• A package of bulbs that is packed and shipped immediately.
• Our phone numbers and email for quick response to any problem
• Assurance that the bulbs that you get have been grown in the ground, in South Carolina and were tended by our family – people who know and love crinums.