Hello! I am Leonid Bondarenko.

   My old garden, where I started growing flowers long time ago, is situated near Vilnius town, Republic of Lithuania. Once the Garden was a place where I planted the main part of my collection. Now I use this name in the Internet name as a simbol and out of respect for this point where everything began.

   The basic part of my collection was formed with wild plants collected in expedition in The Caucasus and mountain regions of Central Asia: Allium, Colchicum, Fritillaria, Iris. It has pre-determined priorities of my garden work for many years. Now I grow bulbous and tuberous plants got from many sources of different regions of the world.

   The principal rule of my work is the growing of bulbs in outdoors mainly, even they were native from places with natural conditions very distinguished from our ones. The moving of wild plants (or plants received from my foreign colleagues) to my garden is a first step only on a very long way of adaptation. I sell extremely rarely plants collected in wild. Always I try to grow one or more garden seed generations. Sometimes at time of flowering come 5-10 % of seedlings, but these plants tested and selected by the nature self grow much more better in our climate condition. The best seedlings I use for clone creation and in the end, these clones form my collection and can be put on sail. So I could formulate shortly my conception: "I do not create a special condition for plants, but try to transform plants for our climate condition". If a plant has not a biological reserve for such transformation - I use a crossing trying to get hybrids with unique signs of the plant but grown and propagated well in our land. Sometimes hybrids have new not prognosticated merits.

   It's eighth version of my web site which is updated every year. Time is going and starting my electronic intercourse with help of the web site number one I could not image its popularity now. Last time the geography of my contacts goes increasing swiftly and recently counting all countries where from I receive orders I came to result that it is 28 states. I was surprised that relatively often my customers were from countries where is not an old tradition of flower growing and it were difficult to suppose an interest to my price list. I think it is an indicator not a popularity of the web site only but of an increasing of interest to my sphere of the flower growing where every person can meet a special beauty and realize own intellectual potential. So it is a great satisfaction working in a sphere of activity which is needed and demanded well. I could not say that results of last year gave me a satisfaction only. The number of orders started increasing and I feel clearly that I am an owner of a very small nursery where organization of works is imperfect and it touch not the growing of plants but the stock-taking of orders, packing and sending mainly. These works take too much of time and efforts and was not made well. This year I shell realize some ideas to make this job more comfortable and well executed for my customers and for my self. I am sorry in advance that my electronic contacts are not energy and quick. The nursery is disposed in a zone of bad telephone connection so the using of mobile Internet is problematic. I am able to reply to your massages periodically, sometime one time in a week. Nevertheless this problem I hope to solve too with help of my computer consultants.

   Last year I made again a travel to lovely Armenia. It is a small country but too big one for a single botanic expedition. Like in first travel I was charmed with its historical architecture, landscapes and a rich flora. I with my daughter who is professional photographer have crossed the country from extreme North to the most Southern corner near Iranian border. There are passed many kilometers along some ranges and made many pictures which will be disposed in the page GALLERY of my web site in future.
   Now like before in the nursery are doing a constant work of introduction of new plants, identify and propagation. With pride I can say that even one plant collected in wild in my expeditions was not lost. They are adapting and propagating less or more quickly but certainly after some time you will see them in my catalogue. Last year I did not register my hybrids but it is not indicates that they are not existed or are not ready for registration. Simply I had not time for this job. Sure 2012 year will add in the list of my varieties new registered plants.

   My nursery is tested with state service of protection of plants and I am able to make an international phyto-certificate for every party of ordered bulbs if needed.
   I try executing my obligation (shown in detail in the page SALE) very strictly. I recommend read this information with attention. In the same page you can find terms of delivery, data for contacts and bank data.
   Please mean "Lithuania Rare Bulb Garden" is web site name, but not a name of a nursery. In Lithuania there is not a tradition to name farms with beautiful names. My farm has a register number.

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