Walters Gardens, Inc

Hans A Hansen

Kevin A Hurd

Ariel Diaz

A new cultivar ofplant named 'Jester's Hat' characterized by its medium size habit, evergreen foliage. The flowers are golden yellow spurs with reddish sepals on airy branched corymbs beginning in late spring. The foliage has three leaflets of light chartreuse with large segments of reddish in cooler conditions and becoming deep green in summer.

plant named 'Jester's Hat'

The new hybrid xplant named 'Shadow Tag' with palmately-lobed leaves that are shallowly dissected into five to seven main. Foliage color is distinctly silvery-green and starts in the spring with burgundy surrounding the center veins. The flower effect is purplish-pink in moderately densely-branched panicles beginning in late May. The plant is useful for landscaping as a specimen color, en masse, or as a container plant.

plant named 'Shadow Tag'

A new and distinct cultivar of hardy herbaceous False Indigo plant named 'Golden Anniversary' characterized by flowers of deep indigo beginning in late May and continuing for two to three weeks. The new plant has a rounded mounded shaped, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with glaucous golden-yellowish tri-foliate foliage that compliment the flowers. The new plant is suitable for landscaping as a specimen or en masse.

plant named 'Golden Anniversary'

A new and distinct cultivar ofplant named 'All the Buzz' has a medium upright habit, with slightly glaucous, stiff, strap-like, upright, flattened, green foliage with slight longitudinal twisting. The tightly-clustered, light purple flowers forming a medium, globose, upright umbel. The new plant is useful for ornamental containers, landscaping and cut flowers.

plant named 'All the Buzz'

The new and distinct plant of'Cherry Royale' is a winter-hardy shrub with multi-stemmed, well-branched, rounded, mounded habit. The bright rose-pink, sweetly-fragrant flowers are held in many upwardly to slightly outwardly thyrse beginning in mid-summer and continuing until frost. Foliage is lanceolate and dark green above with silvery undersides. Fertility is reduced to nearly sterile. The new plant is valuable for landscaping en masse, as an accent or as a potted specimen.

plant named 'Cherry Royale'

A new and distinctplant named 'Avant Garde' of large arching mounds of broadly ovate leaves having wide bluish-green margins and khaki with olive-green centers. The variegation is also attractively displayed with numerous featherings of intermediate colors between the center the leaf margins. The flowers are very pale lavender held just above the foliage beginning in late June for about three weeks. ‘Avant Garde’ has excellent large mounded habit and is useful in the landscape, as a specimen, or en masse.

plant named 'Avant Garde'

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.

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Zeeland, MI, United States of America

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