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 the sixth version of my web site. For these years thousands of guests have visited my site. I consider them my friends and colleagues all flower lovers who make first step in the rare plants growing and would like to know more about bulbs and connoisseurs having a big experience and big collections. Somebody has become my customer and have got a possibility to see my plants living in own garden.

   Last year was an ordinary working year with successes and failures. Plants grow silently, but I myself only know how much small revolutions have thundered in the silence of my garden and all these interior events I shell try to realize in future in new names in my catalogue. It is a good finish of every working programme of a nursery, but in order to show plants not presented in the current catalogue yet I add new page of the web site ANNOUNCEMENT.

   This year could be named by me as Crimean Year, because I twice visited the peninsula and had a chance to see mountains, steppes and forests concentrated in small space of this miracle of the nature. I met with local plants and was impressed with their beauty and perfection. My great thanks for my Ukrainian colleagues and friends who helped me to do it!

   Welcome to Lithuanian Rare Bulb Garden!