Walters Gardens, Inc

Hans A Hansen

Kevin A Hurd

Ariel Diaz

A new and distinctplant named 'Awakening Spirit' producing large-sized rounded mounds of basal, broadly-cordate to rounded, large-sized leaves with acute apices, cordate bases, and slightly wavy margins. The leaves are variegated having glaucous bluish-green margins and centers that begin the season chartreuse and become creamy as the season progresses with intermediate colors between the margin and center of variably large segments of several shades of chartreuse. The campanulate flowers are near pale purple just above the foliage beginning in late June. ‘Awakening Spirit’ is useful in the landscape, as a container plant, a specimen or en masse.

plant named 'Awakening Spirit'

A new and distinct plant of ornamental Switch Grass named'Half Pint' with upright blue-green foliage that retains its coloration into the fall. The upright, compact, and dense culms produce small-height plants with broadly airy panicles beginning greyed green, developing rosy-reddish seed heads that are retained as creamy-tan into winter. The upright foliage and inflorescences produce a tight habit that is narrower than the height of the inflorescences. The new plant is useful in the landscape as a specimen, en masse, or in a container.

plant named 'Half Pint'

A new and distinct cultivar ofplant named 'Urge to Splurge' characterized by compact stems with obovate, bluish-green, glaucous foliage that develops a reddish tint in the summer and fall. The flowers are surrounded by bright yellow bracts and cover the plant in spring.

plant named 'Urge to Splurge'

The new and distinct Bellflower plant,plant named 'Bells and Whistles' with dense mounded habit, dark-green lanceolate foliage and numerous dark violet-blue campanulate flowers over a six week period clustered at nodes and ends of upright heavily branched stems beginning in late June.

plant named 'Bells and Whistles'

A new and distinctplant named 'Humungousaurus' with giant, round-mounded habit with very large ovate foliage of heavy substance, with golden yellow color, and deeply impressed veins. Flowers are very pale purple for about three weeks beginning in late June. Scapes are drooping outwardly and holding flowers just above foliage.

plant named 'Humungousaurus'

A new and distinct cultivar ofplant named 'Prairie Princess' with very rounded mound habit; dark olive-green with a purplish blush early in the season, linear foliage and numerous inflorescences, on heavily-branched stems, containing rosy-purple disk florets beginning in late summer and continuing for about six weeks. The new plant is useful for landscaping, as a specimen or en masse and as a cut flower.

plant named 'Prairie Princess'

A new and uniqueplant named 'Dragon Slayer' is characterized by a rounded-mound of stiff, linear-lanceolate bluish-green leaves that are flat with concave apices and margins that produce few marginal filifers. The plant produces a loose colony that is winter hardy. The creamy-white flowers are produced on attractive, compact, heavily-branched, upright panicles in the summer. The new plant is suitable for the garden or as a potted plant in the garden or home.

plant named 'Dragon Slayer'

A new and unique hybrid cultivar ofplant named'Dream Girl' of tall, sturdy, multi-stemmed, upright habit. Dark-green foliage is thick with exceptional powdery mildew resistance on stiff stems. Lavender-pink flowers with strong white eyes are produced on large heads of branched peduncles and nearly cover the top of the plant beginning mid-July and continuing and reblooming for about seven weeks through late summer. ‘Dream Girl’ is especially suitable as a potted plant, for the garden, for attracting hummingbirds and butterflies, and for cut flower arrangements.

plant named 'Dream Girl'

A new and distinctplant named 'Leaving Me Breathless' produces medium-sized low mounds. The foliage is in basal rosettes, broadly ovate, leaves with long narrowly acute apices, cordate bases and slightly wavy margins. The leaves are variegated having bluish-green margins and pale-yellow to creamy white centers with intermediate color separation between the margin and center of variably large segments of several shades of chartreuse. The medium-sized leaves have a glaucous matte top and bottom. The broadly campanulate flowers are pale purple with white edges appearing beginning in mid-July. Each flower is attractively subtended by a floral bract that mimics the leaf variegation making the scape showy for long periods. ‘Leaving Me Breathless’ is useful in the landscape, as a container plant, a specimen or en masse.

plant named 'Leaving Me Breathless'

The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental, hardy, Wormwood,plant named 'Silver Lining' with a broad mounded habit of strong dense stems that remain upright through the growing season and do not open in the center of the plant. The new plant is vigorous with many large, durable, distally-lobed, broad, irregularly, and deeply dissected foliage of silver- white.

plant named 'Silver Lining'

A new cultivar ofplant named 'Wisteria Falls' characterized by its medium size habit and evergreen foliage with flowers on cascading panicles with pinkish lilac sepals, wine-colored petals that deepen in color of the spurs on airy branched panicles beginning in late spring. The foliage is semi-evergreen with three leaflets of light chartreuse with burgundy blush and patterns in cooler conditions and becoming deep green in summer.

plant named 'Wisteria Falls'

A new and distinctplant named 'Out of Time' of arching, lanceolate, variegated leaves having a lustrous underside and moderately wavy margins. The foliage has deep green centers and yellowish-chartreuse margins that mature to creamy-white in high light exposure. The flowers are purplish and remain closed until dropping. ‘Out of Time’ has excellent, small, compact, mounded habit and is useful in the landscape, in containers, as a specimen, or en masse.

plant named 'Out of Time'

A new and distinct cultivar of ornamental Spiked Speedwell,plant named 'Da Vinci Delight', with broad medium-height habit, stiff, upright, compound-branched spikes of densely-arranged soft lilac flowers beginning in early summer and continuing for at least six weeks above dark-green, lanceolate, highly lustrous foliage. The new plant is useful in the landscape as a specimen, en masse, as a container plant, or as a cut flower, and maintains its foliage through the season.

plant named 'Da Vinci Delight'

A new and unique cultivar of hyssop,plant named 'Pinky Pie' with medium-sized, dense, full, rounded, well-branched, winter-hardy habit. The large, lavender-pink colored flowers emerge from apricot-colored buds and cover the top two-thirds of the plant, with mauve-pink calyxes in densely branched panicles over an extended period beginning in early summer and continuing into fall.

plant named 'Pinky Pie'

A new and distinct plant cultivar ofplant named 'Vanilla Cream II' characterized by creamy-yellow flowers on long spikes beginning in late May in Michigan and continuing for about three weeks. The new plant is a winter-hardy, herbaceous perennial and produces multiple heavily-branched stems in a thick mound with tri-foliate foliage that emerges chartreuse with grey-purple blush on the margin and matures to a slight glaucous bluish-green. The new plant is suitable for landscaping as a specimen or en masse.

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Zeeland, MI, United States of America

Hans A Hansen