Welcome to The Hippeastrum Co.

Our passion for collecting growing and cultivating high quality Hippeastrum bulbs that bring joy, colour and elegance to you year after year.

I first saw hippies growing on mass outside of my grandmothers retirement village. A sea of red blooms. A site that would later in life blossom into a full time career.

Not long after, my aunty sent 2 bulbs as a birthday gift. 'Apple Blossom' was one, the other was 'Summertime' 

Never had I seen hippies in these colours, Wow!

Then.. the discovery that would change my outlook on life forever.

Maguires Hippeastrum Farm.

How could I forget.. being in the back seat of the Camry, turning left down that driveway on Kiel Mountain Road for the very first time and seeing the colour beyond. Oh my.. is this place heaven? 

Many many trips and mail orders later I had a small collection growing.

I wrote to Mr Mick Maguire once and he replied to me with a letter. I treasure that letter. I even got his autograph! 

Fast forward 15 or so years and things started to get serious. I started to hybridise some of the better flowers and got seed. We planted our first batch of seed back in 2014 and have been doing it every year since.

Then the discovery of vegetative propagation around 2018 really helped us build our numbers of stock.

I feel incredibly fortunate to now be chasing a life long dream and we couldn't do what we do without you. So thankyou to you, our customers that keep coming back and supporting what we love doing most.

We pride ourselves on looking after you, our customers will always come first.

Cheers, Glenn and Co.