2. We Ship at Proper Planting Time - When planting season arrives in your garden, your plants are shipped, first come, first served. Based on decades of experience, Cois Mara garden center ships based on these guidelines:

• Spring - Southern regions in Jan-Feb, just after nursery stock is dug and prepared. We move northward as weather zones "open" until even the coldest region is opened by early May.
  Because we don't ship until they will transplant best in your garden, we suspend most orders to Galway, the West Coast, and southern Munster by early May; the deep south by mid-May; Donegal, the central and northern counties by May 31. Other than our May 31 cutoff, exact dates vary by weather. Garden accessories are shipped year round.
• Autumn - An excellent time to transplant plant material of definite hardiness, when weather and soil conditions are often better than early spring.
  In general we begin shipping northern areas in September, then warm zones till December. We ship to northernmost regions until conditions preclude planting; however, hardy bulbs can be planted until a hard freeze.
  Notable exceptions to fall shipping schedules: We ship fall-blooming bulbs till mid-September; Bearded Iris August to mid-October; Clematis starting in October; Lilies starting in mid-October (and remember, plant Lilies immediately upon receipt). If there's a chance of the ground freezing, prepare and mulch your garden in advance.