Wisconsin Gardener:
Sources for Ideas for Spring #1703
Original air date: May 7 and May 16, 2009
Segment #1: WOODLAND PLANTS FOR SPRING
Featured Plants:
Red Baneberry (Actaea rubra)
Large Flowered
Trillium (Trillium grandiflorum)
Virginia Bluebells
(Mertensia virginica)
Maple Leaved
Alum Root (Heuchera villosa)
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
(Arisaema triphyllum)
Wild Geranium
(Geranium maculatum)
Prairie Trillium
(Trillium recurvatum)
Wild Blue
Phlox (Phlox divaricata)
Web Site: prairienursery.com
BUMPER # 1
The osiers are in bud, the tops of the trees are tipped with bloom, the
leaves are green;
and from the depths of the green come bird voice and song.
Arnaut Daniel
1180-1200 (French writer)
Segment #2:NEW PLANTS FOR URBAN GARDENERS
Featured Plants:
'Peanut' Hosta
'Blue
Mouse Ears' Hosta
'Tortifrons'
Hosta
'Golden Sprite' Hinoki Cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Golden Sprite')
'Jervis' Hemlock
(Tsuga canadensis 'Jervis)
'Rock Garden'
Holly (Ilex x 'Rock Garden')
'Tom Thumb'
Golden Conifer (Picea orientalis 'Tom Thumb')
'Gebelle's
Golden Spring' Dwarf Colorado Spruce (Picea pungens 'Gebelle's Golden Spring')
'J.W. Daisy
White' Dwarf Alberta Spruce (Picea glauca 'J.W. Daisy White')
'Aureum' Golden
Full Moon Maple (Acer shirasawanum 'Aureum')
'Fairyhair'
Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum 'Fairyhair')
'Baby Lace'
Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum 'Baby Lace')
'Red Dragon'
Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum 'Red Dragon')
'Waterfall'
Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum 'Waterfall')
'Twombly's
Red Sentinel' Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum 'Twombly's Red Sentinel')
'Dawyck Gold'
European Beech (Fagus sylvatica 'Dawyck Gold')
'Dawyck Purple
European Beech (Fagus sylvatica 'Dawyck Purple')
'Tricolor'
European Beech (Fagus sylvatica 'Tricolor')
'Purple Fountain'
European Beech (Fagus sylvatica 'Purple Fountain')
web site: songsparrow.com
BUMPER # 2
Hostas originally came from Japan, China, and Korea. They were first introduced
to Europe in the late 1700s. They came to the United States in the middle
1800s. There are now more than 2,500 different cultivars available.
Segment #3:
Web site: UW-Extension Urban Horticulture:
Pests
Segment #4: COLOR VIGNETTES
Featured Plants:
'The Pearl'
Yarrow (Achillea ptarmica 'The Pearl')
'Blue
Dune' Lyme grass (Elymus arenarius 'Blue Dune')
'Frosty
Morn'Autumn Stonecrop (Sedum 'Frosty Morn')
'Marshall's
Delight' Bergamot (Monarda didyma 'Marshall's Delight')
'Silver
Queen' Artemisia (Artemisia ludoviciana 'Silver Queen')
'Gloria
Jean' Yarrow (Achillea millefolium 'Gloria Jean')
'Summer
Fairytale' Miniature Rose (Rosa 'Summer Fairytale')
web site: wintergreenhouse.com
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