OUR HISTORY

It was at Perth Garden and Outdoor Festival 2023, that I first met Lena Elliott, the founder of Lakehouse Nursery. After a brief conversation with Lena about Louisiana Irises, she asked if I would like to buy her nursery, as she was now at a stage in life to slow down and after 30 years of growing and selling daylilies and irises, she was ready to hand over the reins. Well, this took me by surprise to say the least! I only went to buy a few more bearded iris for my collection and ended up with a whole nursery. I call this fate, as I have been offered plant nurseries in the past but for whatever reason these did not come to fruition.

So with a lot of planning and ground preparation, we took delivery of the first lot of daylilies on the 10th July 2023. Over 1100 plants were divided , trimmed and planted that first week. Finally after 6 months of weekly plant deliveries on the 14th January 2024 Lena delivered the last lot of the “general plants” with some bulk varieties to follow later. We have dug, trimmed and planted in excess of 20,000 plants from Beverley, Lena’s lakeside property to our place in the Swan Valley. Over the coming year we will have many more varieties becoming available for purchase.

We will continue in Lena’s footsteps to provide only top quality plants and service to our customers.