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2004 Region 2 Summer Meeting Tour Gardens roses, a hardy northern climber that stops the show. Gardeners will appreciate the unseen hours behind the immaculately groomed grounds, a testament to an artistic eye and loving, constant care. TROWBRIDGE GARDEN 3207 South Webster, Green Bay, WI 54301 Surrounding a gracious turn-of–the-century home near downtown Green Bay rest the deceptively refined gardens of Ruth Trowbridge. Ruth has cultivated daylilies for more than four decades. First glances–the white picket fence, waves of perennials, canopied horse chestnut trees—create an impression of a proper private garden. Look closer. Read the labels. You’ve been suckered. In Green Bay Daylily circles, Ruth is known as the Daylily Madame. Her beds of ill repute feature bawdy, bodacious cultivars from Curt Hanson and others, pander to a racy sense of humor. Gathered together in a bordello bed are WOMEN SEEKING MEN, EROGENOUS ZONE, PERFORMANCE ANXIETY, and DEN OF INIQUITY. Other theme gardens include a Booze Garden with roses MAI TAI, MERLOT AND PEACH BRANDY, a Poker Garden with hostas named ROYAL FLUSH and GOLD BULLION, a kitchen garden with hostas ‘Golden Waffles’ and ‘Squash Casserole’. Gift plants from friends and loved ones figure in the gardens, with daylilies hybridized by Ruth’s sister Doris Simonsen. Visitors will find a playful mix of old favorites with new introductions, and beds beautifully laced with salvia, perennial sunflowers, daisies and phlox. Ruth’s favorite daylily varieties include WA- TERMELON MOON and CHAMPAGNE MOON. Ruth also cultivates a variety of magnolias, peonies, flowering shrubs, and unusual plant forms. Her tree-shaded front yard is a home to hundreds of hosta plants. Says Ruth, “Most daylily freaks become hosta nerds.” Enjoy... With Ruth’s playful theme beds and charming city setting, it’s not your garden variety tour. Kim and Joe Klarner N9375 Lawn Road, Seymour WI 54165 The Klarner acreage beckons to gardeners who enjoy travelling off the beaten path, exploring a fascinating collection of flowering shrubs, unusual trees, native plants and rare, weird and wonderful species. This eclectic gardener’s mix began just four years ago, when Kim and her husband Joe escaped to ten acres in the country. Immediately, Kim began gardening with gusto. Four island beds form the mainstays of the Klarner gardens. They include a perennial bed; a woodland bed with native tree and plants; a booze bed with iris, roses and lilies named for drinks; and a mixed bed, of flowering shrubs such as witch hazel, Xanthocerus and Heptocodium. A focal point for the tour is a 1.5 acre pond with an island garden connected by a picturesque footbridge. The island forms a miniature prairie garden, complete with prairie coneflowers, black-eyed Susan and native plants. In addition to daylilies, Klarners’ Garden offers mix of magnolias, tree peonies, herbaceous peonies combined with perennials such as phlox, dianthus, spirea and roses. She also has an a sizable iris collection with more than 120 bearded iris and several Spuria iris (iris which grows up to 6 inches in height.) She is an active trader on gardenweb.com and also enjoys chatting and swapping cultivars with other cyber-gardeners. Klarner also admits she likes “pushing the zone,” trying her luck with tender The Klarners’ Garden azaleas, red buds, Carolina silver bell, Bowman’s root and bear berry, and exploring the possibilities of her own microclimate. Growing daylilies for the last 15 years, Kim professes to have no real favorites, other than a preference for pure color and shades of purple. She says simply, “I like ‘em all!” A favorite hybridizer is Frank Childs. Like many other BUDS, she dabbles in hybridizing, and has a plant she calls “Pretty on Pretty,” with a dramatic white border. TROWBRIDGE GARDEN Solaris Farms Nate and Kimberly Bremer 7510 PineSva Road, Reedsville, WI 54230 www. solarisfarms.com Set in a century-old Wisconsin farmstead south of Green Bay, Solaris Farms specializes in hardy, field-grown daylilies cultivated to withstand the rigors of the upper Midwest. An AHS Display Garden, the farm displays a dazzling number of daylilies, perennials and ornamentals against the backdrop of a circa 1858’s barn and outbuildings. Page 22 Spring-Summer 2004 AHS Region 2/Great Lakes Newsletter
2004 Region 2 Summer Meeting Tour Gardens Continuing the Region 2 Youth News The farm accents numerous beds and gardens with old farm tools and implements, winding stone walks, strategically placed garden benches and a shady pergola, inviting visitors to leisurely exploration. While more than 900 varieties of tetraploids and diploids are represented at Solaris, Bremers’ favorite varieties to note include Northern performers, READ MY LIPS, LOVE’S CALL, BELA LUGOSI, and CARIBBEAN WHIPPED CREAM. Among the diverse collection is the 6-ft high SEARS TOWER, 8-inch high PENNY’S WORTH, and monster flowered TROPICANA TREAT. Bremer’s own registrations, including ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, DIANE BREMER, MAGENTA ASSAULT, and AN- GELS ON HIGH, demonstrate Nate’s hybridizing goals for high bud count, hardy plant habit and performance (total plant). Solaris Farms Visit our Region 2 Websit ebsite e at.......... http://www.ahsregion2.org or at http://badbuds.org/tourgardens.htm ourgardens.htm ......where you can..... AHS Region 2/Great Lakes Newsletter This commercial nursery is a family affair, helped along by various domestic and wild critters. Finn, the collie, acts as official greeter, while barn swallows and wild cranes fly overhead, barnyard ducks quack, and farm cats snooze amid the lilies. Nate, the brains/brawn, runs the operation; children, Emma and Ethan, assist visitors, and wife Kim acts as the bag lady and art critic (“honey, that flower color is NOT magenta”). Believing that dormancy is a key genetic component to zones where frost reaches four feet deep, Nate bases his program on northern hybridizers such Moldovan, Benz, Ellison, Hanson, Rice, and Reckamp. Bremer tests the new varieties several years in the display beds prior to offering them for commercial sale or hybridizing to ensure zone hardiness. To see what’s coming up in Solaris’s northern hybridizing program, step into Solaris’ Seedling Field. Featuring many thousands of 1 to 3 year old seedlings from Bremer and fellow BUD member, Bill Seidl (a nationally recognized breeder of peonies). Well-marked labels demonstrate the diversity of seedling characteristics generated through one simple cross, from the good to the bad to the ugly. Note: All tour garden images were provided by Phil Korth take a virtual tour of the 2004 Region 2 Summer Meeting gardens and also read Region 2 Newsle wslett tter er articles in full color. (continued from page 8) Mark Williams is 11 years old and is a 6th grade student at Bloom Carroll Junior High School in Carroll, Ohio. He is in the percussion section of the school band and also takes piano lessons. He likes to play golf, tennis, and basketball. Mark has had his own daylily bed for 5 years and has been a member of MCDS and AHS for 3 years. His favorite color of daylily is red, and his favorite cultivar is EZEKIEL. He enjoys hybridyzing and likes to take daylilies to the annual show. He won the Novice Award in 2002 and won Mark Williams the prize for Best Youth in 2003. Image: Steve Williams Megan Ritchey Megan is a Sophomore at Pickerington Central High School, Pickerington, Ohio. She is an honor student and plays in the marching band; she plays both the flute and the tuba (at different times). She also sings in the school choir, and her favorite sport is playing soccer at school. Megan’s favorite daylily is MUNCHKIN MOON- BEAM (a 3 1/2 inch creamy white), she also likes purples, and she loves helping her mother with planting and taking care of their daylily gardens. Megan has been a member of MCDS and AHS for one year. Ryan and Cory Gossard (Don’t miss looking at their photos on page 27!) Ryan has been a member of AHS and MCDS for the past 2 years and has also been into hybridizing daylilies for more than 2 years. At the present time has introduced and registered RED EYED JACK in 2003, CLAWS OF MOONLIGHT (a 7 inch cream) in 2004, and BUTTER FLIES (a 7 1/2 inch butterscotch / red eye) also in 2004. These daylilies can be found in Megan Ritchey his father Jamie Gossard’s brochures. He is more into large and unusual forms. Ryan has to get up at 5:30 am in order to catch the school bus. He attends the sixth grade at Hilliard Middle School, Hilliard, Ohio. His after-school activities are in Martial Arts. He holds a red belt in Tae Kwon Do (two away from black belt) and works in Haidon-Gumdo (Korean Swords). Ryan raises chickens and shows them at the local fair where he won Grand and Reserve Champion two years ago. Cory Gossard has been a member of AHS and MCDS for the past 2 years and has been hybridizing with yellows for the past 2 years. He is planning to register his seedlings in 2005. Cory is also into Martial Arts, Tae Kwon Do and Haidon Gumdo, with the same degree of belts ranking as his brother Ryan is. He is in the fourth grade at one of the Hilliard Elementaries (there are 11). He gets to sleep in a little later than Ryan. Cory also raises chickens and has won Grand and Reserve Champion this year; the boys trade years to win. They have won Grand Champion overall with their rooster. Both boys are wonderful, working with the MCDS club in digging and cleaning plants for the plant sale in August. The club really appreciates all their hard work. (See photo on page 27!) Spring-Summer 2004 Page 23
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