What's Growing On
May 2008 Festival of Blossoms, Door County
May 10, 2008 Sister Bay Festival of Blossoms
May 22 - 24, 2008 Door County Festival of Nature
May 31, 2008- Master Gardeners Annual Plant Sale, Door County Peninsular Research Station
May 31 - June 1, 2008 24th Annual Garden Fair, Green Bay Botanical Garden
June 28, 2008 3rd Annual Parade of Ponds, Door County
July 29, 2008 48th Annual House and Garden Walk, Door County
September 27, 2008 Fall Fun Day, Green Bay Botancial Gardens
November 28 - December 28, 2008 12th Annual Garden of Lights, Green Bay Botanical Gardens
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New Plants & Products
New dwarf and unusual conifers including Golden Spanish Fir, Northern Japanese Hemlock ‘Loowit,’ European Weeping Larch ‘Puli,’ Bosnian Pine ‘Irish Belle,’ Japanese Black Pine ‘Thunderhead,’ Engelmann Spruce, and Norway Spruce ‘Slim Jim’
New hosta varieties including Cameo, Cat and Mouse, Fantabulous, Guardian Angel, Journey’s End, Lonesome Dove, May, Mourning Dove, Roy Klehm, and Vulcan
New shrubs including Barberry ‘Stardust,’ Beautybush ‘Dreamcatcher,’ Dogwood ‘Arctic Fire,’ Woadwaxen (Genista) ‘Golden Template,’ Hydrangea ‘Quick Fire,’ Hydrangea ‘Pinky Winky,’ Hydrangea ‘Little Lamb,’ Potentilla ‘Mango Tango,’ Rose ‘Rainbow Knockout,’ Easy Elegance Rose Varieties which include ‘Little Mischief,’ ‘Sunrise/Sunset,’ ‘Sweet Fragrance,’ and ‘Fiesta,’ Smokebush ‘Young Lady,’ Spirea ‘Firegold,’ Arrowwood Viburnum ‘Red Feather,’ and Weigela ‘Dark Horse’
New ornamental and shade trees including European Beech ‘Dawyck Gold,’ Dwarf River Birch ‘Fox Valley,’ Kousa Dogwood ‘China Girl,’ Horsechestnut ‘Briotti,’ Japanese Maple ‘Twombly’s Red Sentinal,’ Japanese Tree Lilac ‘Golden Eclipse,’ Red Maple ‘Autumn Spire,’ European Hornbeam ‘Fastigiata,’ Weeping Katsura Tree, and Seedless Cottonwood ‘Sire William’
New perennial selections including Actaea ‘James Compton,’ Baptisia ‘Carolina Moonlight,’ Brunnera ‘Looking Glass,’ Japanese Painted Fern ‘Silver Falls,’ Geranium ‘Rozanne,’ Coreopsis ‘Moonlight,’ Ligularia ‘Japonica,’ Echinacea varieties which include ‘Green Envy,’ ‘Raspberry Tart,’ ‘Fragrant Angel,’ ‘Tiki Torch,’ ‘Crazy Pink,’ and ‘After Midnight,’ Heuchera varieties which include ‘Lime Rocky,’ ‘Southern Comfort,’ ‘Obsidian,’ ‘Paris,’ and ‘Sparkling Burgundy.’ We also have daylily selections from local hybridizer Ron Mickelson.
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Wisconsin Nursery Association Plants of the Year
2005
- Red Sprite Winterberry
- Patriot Hosta
2006
- Northwinds Switchgrass
- Winterking Hawthorn
2007
- Louisa Crabapple
- Lungwort
2008
- Cornelian Cherry Dogwood
- Cornus Mas 'Golden Glory'
- Blue Star
- Amsonia 'Blue Ice'
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Perennial Plants of the year
1990 - Phlox stolonifera
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' |
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