What's Growing On

May 1st through June 6th
Festival of Blossoms, Door County

May 9th, 2009
Sister Bay Festival of Blossoms

May 21st through May 23rd, 2009
Door County Festival of Nature

May 30th, 2009 - 9:00 to 12:00PM
Master Gardeners Annual Plant Sale, Door County Peninsular Research Station

June 6th through June 7th, 2009
25th Annual Garden Fair
Green Bay Botanical Garden




June 27th, 2009
4th Annual Parade of Ponds, Door County

July 28th, 2009
49th Annual House and Garden Walk, Door County

September 12th, 2009 - 1:00 to 4:00PM
Taste of the Garden Door
Door County Peninsular Research Station

September 26th, 2009
Fall Family Festival, Green Bay Botancial Gardens

November 27th through December 27th, 2009
13th Annual Garden of Lights, Green Bay
Botanical Gardens


New Plants & Products

New dwarf and unusual conifers including:
      bullet  Golden Spanish Fir, Northern Japanese Hemlock ‘Loowit,’ European Weeping Larch ‘Puli,’
         Bosnian Pine ‘Emerald Arrow,’ Japanese Black Pine ‘Thunderhead,’ Juniper ‘Blue Point,’ Juniper
         ‘Star Power,’ Jack Pine ‘Broom,’ Norway Spruce ‘Tompa,’ Arborvitae ‘Umbracullifera,’ Chamaecyparis
         ‘Green Arrow,’ and Colorado Blue Spruce ‘The Blues’

New hosta varieties including:
      bullet  Cat and Mouse, Fantabulous, Guardian Angel, Dancing Queen, Journey’s End, Lonesome Dove, May,
         Mourning Dove, Night Before Christmas, Roy Klehm, Vulcan, and Zounds

New shrubs including:
      bullet   Barberry ‘Sunjoy Gold Pillar,’ Beautybush ‘Dreamcatcher,’ Clethra ‘Vanilla Spice,’ Dogwood
         ‘Arctic Fire,’ Woadwaxen (Genista) ‘Golden Template,’ Hydrangea ‘Cityline Venice,’ Hydrangea
         ‘Cilyline Mars,’ Hydrangea ‘Incrediball,’Potentilla ‘Dakosta Sunspot,’ Rose ‘Rainbow Knockout,’
         Easy Elegance Rose Varieties which include ‘Little Mischief,’ ‘Sunrise/Sunset,’ and ‘Paint the Town,’
         Oso Easy Rose Varieties which include ‘Honey Buns,’ ‘Paprika,’ ‘Sweet Fragrance,’ and ‘Fiesta,’
         Smokebush ‘Young Lady,’ Spirea ‘Double Play ,'Sorbaria Sem,’ and Weigela ‘Ghost’

New ornamental and shade trees including:
      bullet  Mancana Ash (rabbit resistant), Japanese Maple ‘Pendulum Julian,’ Red Maple ‘Karpick,’
         Kousa Dogwood ‘China Girl,’Horsechestnut ‘Briotti,’ Japanese Maple ‘Twombly’s Red Sentinal,’
         Japanese Tree Lilac ‘Golden Eclipse,’ Seedless Cottonwood ‘Sire William,’ Japanese Pagoda
         Tree (Sophora), Heritage Oak (Bur/English Cross), Crabapple ‘Royal Raindrops,’ Maple ‘Autumn
         Fantasy,’ Korean Maple ‘Purple Bloom,’ and Three Flower Maple ‘Triflorum’

New perennial selections including:
      bullet   Actaea ‘Pink Spike,’ Geranium ‘Tiny Monster,’ Coreopsis ‘Moonlight,’ Heleborus ‘Mello Yellow,’
         Amsonia ‘Blue Ice,’ Baptisia ‘Purple Smoke,’ Campanula ‘Cherry Bells,’ Polemonium ‘Stairway to
         Heaven,’ Sedum ‘Blackjack,’ Echinacea varieties which include ‘Harvest Moon,’ ‘Raspberry Tart,’
         ‘Summer Sky,’ ‘Tiki Torch,’ ‘Twilight,’ and ‘After Midnight,’ Heuchera varieties which include
         ‘Heucherella,’ ‘Southern Comfort,’ ‘Obsidian,’ ‘Paris,’ ‘Sparkling Burgundy,’ and ‘Tapestry.’ We also
         have daylily selections from local hybridizer Ron Mickelson.



Wisconsin Nursery Association – Plants of the Year

2005
-Red Sprite Winterberry
-Patriot Hosta

2006
-Northwinds Switchgrass
-Winterking Hawthorn

2007
-Louisa Crabapple
-Pulmonaria ‘Bertram Anderson’
2008
-Cornelian Cherry Dogwood
-Cornus Mas ‘Golden Glory’
-Amsonia ‘Blue Ice’
-Blue Star

2009
-Baptisia Australis ‘Blue False Indigo’
-Chionanthus Virginicus ‘White Fringetree’



Perennial Plant Association

1990 – Phlox

1991 – Heuchera Micrantha ‘Palace Purple’

1992 – Coreopsis Verticillata ‘Moonbeam’

1993 – Veronica ‘Sunny Border Blue’

1994 – Astilbe ‘Sprite’

1995 – Perovskia Atriplicifolia

1996 – Penstemon Digitalis ‘Husker Red’

1997 – Salvia ‘May Night’ (‘Mainacht’)

1998 – Echinacea Purpurea ‘Magnus’

1999 – Rudbeckia Fulgida var. Sullivantii ‘goldsturm’
2000 – Scabiosa Columbaria ‘Butterfly Blue’

2001 – Calamagrostis x Acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’

2002 – Phlox ‘David’

2003 – Leucanthemum ‘Becky’

2004 – Athyrium Niponicum ‘Pictum’

2005 – Helleborus x Hybridus

2006 – Dianthus ‘Firewitch’

2007 – Nepeta ‘Walkers Low’ – Walkers Low Catmint

2008 – Geranium ‘Rozanne’

2009 – Hakonechloa Macra ‘Aureola’


All Plants of the Year Available for Purchase at our Location!
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