2014 REGION 2 SUMMER MEETING OPEN GARDENS

#1 Damian Schumacher & Cynthia Patterson - 5351 County Road N Oconto WI 920-621-0477 920-834-2556 cynthia @netnet.net OPEN GARDEN: FRIDAY JULY 25TH 9:00AM-6:00PM We invite you to view stimulating combinations of color, height, and plant textures creating year round bloom and seed heads in a cottage style country garden setting. It is tamed with consistent border highlights. There are occasional garden art frequented by birds and chipmunks! We have 75-100 daylilies thriving with hundreds of phlox, echinacea, prairie favorites, and a small shade garden. Come see our Ham Radio Tower, camouflaged by plants and relax on our Mosaic Garden benches!

o DIRECTIONS: Go East on 172 to Packerland. Take a left on Packerland to Hazelwood. Turn right on Hazelwood to Hwy 41. Take Hwyy 41 north to just before Oconto Business exit, turn right on Frog Pond Road. Cross over “S” Continue STRAIGHT on “NN”(NOT RIGHT!) to the end. Turn left on “N”-Next place on left with the white fence!

#2 Robert and Ann Anderson - 6875 Tagge Road, Sturgeon Bay, WI

920-487-3578 cell: 920-493-0994 rcandersoncollc@gmail.com e-mail web site: www.rcandersondoorcounty.com

OPEN GARDEN : THURSDAY, July 24 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. FRIDAY, July 25 10:00 a.m. to 4:oo p.m. SUNDAY, July 27 12:30 p.m. -6:00 p.m. MONDAY, July 28 9:00 a.m. -6:00 p.m.

Bob and Ann purchased a farm in Door County for a future home, gardens and studio/metalworking shop in 2003. They started with the studio/metalworking shop, and working backward, achieved two out of three as ten years went by in a flash. Bob is the owner of R.C. Anderson Co., LLC. He is the creator/designer of garden kaleidoscopes, inflated steel pieces, and other metal sculpture.

When it comes to gardening, each has their own philosophy, and their own gardens. Ann takes her daylily money, and after extensive research, brings a list and hunts for the perfect cultivars. Bob, on the other hand, finds what he likes on the spot and buys a clump so he doesn't have to wait for the maturity - instant satisfaction. They also have their own cultivar interests - Ann goes for the UFO's and spiders, and the darkest colors - browns, near-black, purples, and reds, and anything unusual in any way or that is rare or in short supply. Bob prefers pastels, whites, yellows, oranges, and very tall cultivars.

There are over 400 cultivars in the gardens (individual cultivar labels is a project that is still in the works), as well as hostas and other perennial plants. Complimenting our colorful setting are our unique metal sculptures, garden kaleidoscopes, inflated steel sculpture, arbors, and inflated steel furniture.

The setting, 5 miles south and east of the city of Sturgeon Bay, is rural and peaceful.

o Directions: Go east on 172 to I43. Go north on I43 to Hwy 57 north. Continue north on Hwy 57 to County Road H. Turn right on County Road H. Continue on County Road H for about 1.7 miles to Maple Road (Maple Rd is 0.7 miles past County Road O If you reach Viste Rd you've gone about 0.7 miles too far). Turn left on Maple Road. Maple Road becomes Tagge Road. 6875 Tagge Road is on the right.

#3 Tom and Pat Kaster - 2422 Breezewood Lane, Green Bay, WI

920-434-9076 OPEN GARDEN: FRIDAY, JULY 25 7:30 AM -1:30 PM SUNDAY, JULY 27 AFTER 3:00 PM We would like to share our collection of 160 hostas, 20 daylilies, and 60-70 different conifers! We also enjoy other perennials. Come see them!

o Directions: Go East on 172 to Packerland. Take a left on Packerland to Hazelwood. Turn right on Hazelwood to Hwy 41. Take highway 41 north to the Lineville exit. Take a left at the stop sign, turn right on Velp, turn left on White Pine Road , turn right on Breezewood Lane. 2422 is the 4th house on the right hand side-blue house on the hill.

#4 Karen Trester - RED SHED GARDEN, 2030 Jourdain Lane, Green Bay, WI

920-432-6858 e-mail: bikesnbuds@ netzero.com

OPEN GARDEN: FRIDAY 10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.

RED SHED GARDEN is a fairly steep hillside garden(NOT handicap friendly). There are over three hundred varieties of daylilies including many un-named seedlings. There are also some unusual trees and many other perennials.

o Directions: Located in Allouez(Southeastern Green Bay suburb)-take highway 172 to the east side of the Fox River and exit on Webster Avenue. Go north(left) on Webster Avenue to St. Joseph Street. Turn east(right) on St. Joseph. Halfway down the hill is Jourdain Lane which only goes to the right. The garden is the last house on the right, with the steep driveway. Please park on the street or in the park next to the garden.

#5 Daryl and Karen Jankowski -1257 Blue Ridge Drive, Green Bay, WI

920-499-1599

OPEN GARDEN: SUNDAY JULY 27 9:00 A. M. – 3:00 P.M.

Please join us in viewing our 6 year established gardens featuring daylilies, hosta's, annuals, garden art and 2 Japanese rock gardens. Throughout the gardens you will find collections of sunfaces, gazing balls and water fountains built around a backyard hot tub shelter and a new multi-colored composite deck all nestled in the shadows of historic Lambeau field.

PLEASE NOTE: Open Garden House #5 and Open Garden House #6 are only 5 blocks from each other!

o Directions: Go East on 172 to Packerland. Take a left on Packerland to Hazelwood. Turn right on Hazelwood which becomes Lombardi Ave, continue to Marlee Lane. Turn right on Marlee Lane. Go two blocks to Blue Ridge. Turn right on Blue Ridge. 1257 Blue Ridge Drive will be on the left.

#6 Jim and Zoe Fameree - 1294 Alice Drive, Green Bay, WI

OPEN GARDEN: SUNDAY JULY 27 9:00 A. M. – 3:00 P.M.

We have resided at our home since 1973 so the yard and gardens have gone through many changes including 3 additions and totally moving a whole shade garden. Currently we have 136 daylilies, 100+ hostas, a wide variety of perennials, some annuals, an assortment of fruit trees, including 2 peach trees, and a vegetable garden with a wide variety of veggies. Although, a city lot, we have taken full advantage of every nook and corner to add plants and make it more pleasing to the eye. We have accented the yard with hanging baskets, and pots of annuals to compliment an already colorful yard. Come and see it and enjoy it!

o Directions: West Side of Green Bay Go East on 172 to Packerland. Take a left on Packerland to Hazelwood. Turn right on Hazelwood which becomes Lombardi Ave, continue to Marlee Lane. Turn right on Marlee. Lane then turn right on Alice PLEASE NOTE: Open Garden House #5 and Open Garden House #6 are only 5 blocks from each other!

Highway 141/41 North is pictured on the left below.

#7 Jim, Sharon, and Doug Prochaska - FOX WOODS GARDEN 3713 FoxWoods Court, Abrams, WI

920-826-2775 email: ronpro@bayland.net

Tour Garden from Saturday Morning-If you would like to revisit us, we welcome you!

Jim and Zoe Famereee

OPEN GARDEN: SUNDAY, JULY 27th 12:00P.M. to 4:00 P.M.

Fox Woods Garden is located adjacent to the winding Pensaukee River, 23 miles north of Green Bay, Wisconsin. On 2.7 country acres, Jim and Sharon Prochaska, and son, Doug, grow 800+ named cultivars-many of which are larger than 7” and approximately 12,000 seedlings including tets and dips. Daylilies line both sides of the long driveway that leads to beds that wrap around the house and to the back and side yards. In 2000, they built their present home and began collecting eye catching cultivars to enhance their property. Around 2005, they started hybridizing daylilies. Their favorites are plants with intense saturated colors.

We will be introducing our first daylily this year-‘Julie Robinson’. We are honoring a close friend that passed away from cancer. She was a kind, giving person with endless energy to nurture others. The proceeds from this cultivar will be donated for cancer research.

We invite you to come to our Fox Woods Garden, an American Hemerocallis Display Garden, and see the variety of large unusual form colorful daylilies that are grown on our sunny spot in the northern woods of Wisconsin.

o Directions: Go East on 172 to Packerland. Take a left on Packerland to Hazelwood. Turn right on Hazelwood to Hwy 41. Take Hwyy 41 north approximately 21.6 miles to Erdmann Road. Take a left on Erdmann Road then take the 2nd left on Foxwoods Court. 3713 Foxwoods Court will be at the end of the cul-de-sac.

’Julie Robinson’ Prochaska 2014 Fall

#8 Terry and Mary Vertz - 4312 County Road PP, De Pere, WI

920-336-7678

Sunday morning tour garden OPEN GARDEN: SUNDAY JULY 27 1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. If you missed something on the tour or want to take another peak, welcome back! Come take a leisurely stroll through the gardens and enjoy the view of over 700 daylily cultivars, over 800 named hostas and numerous other flowers. But keep an eye out for any of the whimsical characters you may have missed in the morning tour. You never know what they are up to! NOTE CHANGE IN DIRECTIONS DUE TO START OF ADDITIONAL STREET CONSTRUCTION IN DE PERE

o Directions: Take 172 East to the Hwy 57/Webster St exit (right after you cross the Fox River). Exit and continue straight to Webster. Take a right on Webster. Continue on Webster until it ends on Chicago St in De Pere. Turn right onto Chicago St. Continue on Chicago St until it ends on Merril St. Turn right on Merril to stop light and turn left on Broadway/Hwy 57. County Road PP is under construction so do not go left on PP. Stay right and continue on Hwy 57 to Rockland Road (about 1.7 miles from point where County Road PP goes to the left and Hwy 57 goes right). Turn left on Rockland Road to County Road PP. Turn right on County Road PP. Continue on County Road PP for about 3.5 miles. After County Road PP intersects with County Road W, we will be the 3rd house on the right on County Road PP.

#9 Mark and JoAnn Jankowski - ANGELIC GARDEN 4297 DePrey Road, Abrams, WI 920-660-3195

Saturday morning tour garden

OPEN GARDEN: THURSDAY, July 24 1:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M.

FRIDAY, JULY 25 9:00 A. M.- 3:00 P.M.

In a quiet, peaceful, country setting, is the home of Angelic Acres. Angelic Acres is the residence of Mark and JoAnn Jankowski with their Great Pyrenees dog, Sierra. Most likely Sierra will be the first to greet you, but don’t let her size fool you; she is a gentle giant who enjoys all the attention people will give her. Please feel free to indulge.

As you stroll through the area’s largest collection of named daylily cultivars enjoy the heavenly music of the wind chime. View over 1300 fabulous varieties of registered named daylilies, 250 hostas, and numerous other perennials and ornamental trees. Angelic Acres is honored and privileged to host the Englerth seedling competition for 2014. Check out the living (plant) Kaleidoscope, very fragrant Lilliums and don’t forget to sign the guest book

located on the podium. The sale area offers 400 astonishing daylily varieties to choose from. You will find the sale area through the arbors to support their addicting hobby.

Angelic Acres is the result of a hobby gone wild. We hope you enjoy this explosion of color!

o Directions: Go East on 172 to Packerland. Take a left on Packerland to Hazelwood. Turn right on Hazelwood to Hwy 41. Go north on Hwy 41 to Huebscher Road (approximately 23 miles – after Hwy 41/141 split watch for Shell station on the left. Huebscher Rd will be the next right almost directly across from the Shell station). Turn right on Huebscher Rd go about .2 miles then turn right on DePrey Road. Angelic Acres will be on the left. DePrey Road does not intersect with HWY 41 like Google Maps states.

#10 Nate Bremer - SOLARIS FARMS 7510 Pinesva Road Reedsville WI

920-754-4335 www.solarisfarms.com

Sunday Morning Tour Garden

OPEN GARDEN: Please visit our web site, Solaris Farms, for up to date information

Open Wednesday –Sunday July 9-August 15

Solaris Farms, an AHS Display Garden, is located in the country near Manitowoc, Wisconsin. An old farm setting, circa 1900, is the back drop of more than five acres of northern hardy plants. The expansive gardens and sales field feature northern trialed Hemerocallis, Paeonia and Lilium. The rural atmosphere has become a popular spring (peony bloom) and summer (daylily & lily) destination for visitors wishing to enjoy a relaxing picnic or to see plants blooming in their seasonal glory.

The Bremer family purchased the abandoned farm in 1998 and promptly began working to bring the old property to life. A barn, granary and machine shed are of original vintage and are the backbone of the scenic farm. Wooden structures built from rough cut timber serve as relaxation points for visitors. The fields and gardens surrounding the old and newer additions are filled with tens of thousands of northern tier plants.

Nate Bremer (owner) has hybridized daylilies for more than 25 years and has more than 150 registrations, which can be seen throughout the gardens and fields. Hundreds of other daylily hybridizer’s plants and seedlings from Bremer’s program are grown as well. The focus of Nate’s daylily hybridizing program has been hardiness, performance and color over the past couple of decades. Hemerocallis ‘Bang Bang’, ‘Cheese Weasel’, ‘Welding the Titanic’ and ‘Lunker’ have become popular cultivars and represent the wide range of flower and plant characteristics that are part of Bremer’s hybridizing program. The commercial nursery operation grows and trials all of its plants in open fields, which visitors are able to tour at their leisure. Propagation fields are often as interesting as ‘the sales field’ and ‘display gardens’ as they hold many future Paeonia and Hemerocallis introductions in their infancy.

o Directions: Take 172 East to the Hwy 57/Webster St exit (right after you cross the Fox River). Stay in right hand lane of the exit which will make a 180 degree turn to Hwy 57. Take a left on Hwy 57. Continue south on Hwy 57 through De Pere. County Road PP is under construction, so continue on Hwy 57 to Rockland Road (about .7 miles from point where County Road PP goes to the left and Hwy 57 goes right). Turn left on Rockland Road to County Road PP. Turn right on County Road PP continue south on PP to its intersection with County Hwy.K and turn left (east) on to K (PP merges with and exits Hwy 96 approximately 10 miles before K). Proceed approximately 4 miles, turn south (right) on to County Hwy. W for 2 miles. Then turn east (left) on to Taus Road and proceed 1/8th mile, turn right at the wooden Solaris Farms entrance to park in our grass/field parking lot. Please note that the Pine-Sva Road address is our residence and exit to the farm. If you like an all country drive (faster), take County GV south off 172 to round about at County G. Take County Road G east. Follow G thru the Towns of Shirley, Lark and Wayside, then turn south on to County W. Proceed as instructed above to Solaris Farms. This route takes about 20 to 25 minutes from Hwy. 172!

#11 Leo Bordeleau - ROSEHILL GARDEN 472 Rose-Hill Drive Oneida WI

920-869-2540 http://www.rhgardens.com/ rosehillgardens@yahoo.com

Saturday afternoon Tour Garden

OPEN GARDEN: Monday – Saturday 9:00 A.M. – 5:00P.M.

Sunday 10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.

Rose-Hill Gardens is a small retail specialty perennial nursery operating on two and a half acres of land just west of Green Bay, WI. Our 24 display gardens offer the public a chance to view many of our retail plants at a mature stage, growing in a landscaped setting. Our primary focus is offering an expanded line of heucheras, hostas, lilies and hemerocallis. We also specialize in offering a unique assortment of succulents, rock garden plants, and miniature conifers. Our selection of hypertufa containers and planters is the largest in this part of the state. Daylilies have been, and continue to be, our favorite perennial. Several of our display beds are solely dedicated to displaying this fascinating plant. We display some of the more popular cultivars along with a few of our own unnamed seedlings. Our newest cultivars on display are those featuring some of the most recent named introductions from the hybridizing program of Phil and Luel Korth of Pinewood Gardens.

o Directions: Take 172 west to Hwy 54. Go west (right) on Hwy 54 to Overland Drive (Oneida Orchard is on the corner). Overland Drive only goes north (left). Following Overland Drive to County Road J/Riverdale Dr. Take a left and then a quick right on Rose Hill Dr.

#12 Phil and Luel Korth - Pinewood Garden 1861 Pinewood Trail, Suamico, WI

920-434-5958 pkorth1@new.rr.com

Saturday Morning Tour Garden

Open Garden Sunday, July 27 12:00-4:00 P.M.

Pinewood Gardens began when Phil and Luel moved to a country lot of 1.75 acres in Suamico in 1997. With the larger lot, Luel created gardens for woodland plants, shade loving perennials, and sun loving flowers. Phil and Luel started hybridizing daylilies the first summer. The daylily gardens evolved from display gardens to hybridizing and seedling evaluation. Today, the garden focus is on hybridizing daylilies. Each year about 4,000 seedlings are planted. After the first bloom season, less than 10% are selected for further evaluation. Eventually 10 to 15 plants are selected for introduction. Phil and Luel share the hybridizing program. Their interests include large ruffled pastels, reds and purples with gold, white, and toothed edges, whites with pink eyes and edges, “blue” eyes, and diploids with large green throats and patterns. Above all, northern hardiness and good garden performance are important.

o Directions: Go East on 172 to Packerland. Take a left on Packerland to Hazelwood. Turn right on Hazelwood to Hwy 41. Go north on Hwy 41 to Brown Road exit. Go left on Brown Road approximately .25 miles to Timberwood Trial. Turn left on Timberwood Tr to Pinewood Trail. Turn left on Pinewood Trial. 1861 Pinewood will be on the right at the end of Pinewood Trail.

#13 Darrel & Marilyn Apps – Garden Adventures, 629 Dewey Avenue, Wild Rose, WI 54984

920-622-3216 or cell (daytime only) 715-281-4817 darrel_apps@hotmail.com

Open Garden: Thursday, July 24- Not Open Friday, July 25 Open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 27 12 p.m.to 5 p.m. Monday, July 28 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Directions:

Wild Rose, WI is located on highway 22 between the cities of Wautoma and Waupaca.

In the town center (Main St.- Highway 22) turn south between the Antique Store and Sluggers Bar. Take 2nd street to left (don’t count alley as street).The street name is Dewey Avenue (no street sign), then look for 3rd house on the left (less than 2/10ths miles from highway 22). The hybridizing garden is on Highland Drive just 2 blocks away.

Number of Plants

We have several hundred named daylily cultivars. The seedlings at the hybridizing garden number in the thousands.

The landscape at the house has mixed perennial borders, a boxwood parterre, container plants and many different shrubs.

Garden Description

This destination in Wild Rose, WI includes a restored 1900 historical home and English garden at one location and a fenced hybridizing garden on a close by street. The home site includes daylilies in mixed perennial borders, a boxwood parterre and two beds with a concentration of daylily cultivars. One bed features diploid and tetraploid red cultivars hardy to Wisconsin’s USDA zone 4. The hybridizing garden is slightly less than ½ acre and features hybrids to match the hybridizing goals: continuous blooming small daylilies, fancy tetraploids and both diploid and tetraploid spiders.