Sponsored by the Wisconsin Hardy Plant Society, Inc.

2016 WHPS Bus Trips

Monches Farm. An independent nursery in Col-gate, WI, Monches features hardy fieldgrown perennials, herbs, dried flowers, gifts, antiques, and design ideas. Show your State-by-State/WI Gardening magazine card for 10% discount on plant purchases. www.monchesfarm.com

Paul Bobrowitz Spectacular Sculpture Garden. In Colgate, WI, Paul has been creating hand-made metal art and sculptures for over two decades. His six-acre outdoor display gallery in southeastern Wisconsin is open to the public and his on-site studio is open by appointment. www.bobrowitzsculpture.comHeritage Flower Farm. Located in Mukwonago, WI, Heritage Flower Farm is owned by WHPS member Betty Adelman. This is an award-winning boutique nursery growing heirloom plants, finding their stories and spreading them to gardens from the Smithsonian and Canada’s Royal Botanic Garden, to backyard gardens

like ours. At Heritage Flower Farm they grow pass-along plants – plants passed on from one generation to the next, with most of their plants grown from seed. They save their own seeds. If they can’t find seed for plants we’re lusting for and plants are available, they buy plants. www.heritageflowerfarm.com

Country Gardens Perennials. Operated by Nancy Hazard at her home in Oconomowoc, WI, this is a three-acre perennial nursery and a ¾-acre native prairie planting featuring dis-play gardens, as well as a selection of Mexican pottery. Check out Nancy’s website for pic-tures and a listing of available plants for sale. www.countrygardensperennials.com

Ebert’s Greenhouse Village. In Ixonia, WI, this greenhouse was started in 1976 as Ebert’s Farm Produce and Greenhouses. It is now a

one-stop family run retail business, with over 150,000 square feet of growing space.

Their 38 greenhouses are filled with stunning annuals, hanging bas-kets, vegetables, and perennials, and a gift shop with handcrafted

metalwork, wood carvings and bird sanctuaries, up-cycled and recycled

pieces from local artisans near and far, as well as new lines of statuary, fountains, and pottery. www.ebertsgreenhouse.com

Wed., June 1, 2016 Tour Leader: John Cannon,

cell: 608-772-9854, email: jtcannon@wisc.edu

Date: Wednesday, June 1

Cost: $24

Departure Time: Approxi-mately 7:30 am. from Shopko South Towne parking lot

Return Time: Approx. 6:00 pm.

Registration Deadline: May 11 (No refunds after May 11)

What’s included: Bus and driver’s tip

What’s not included: NO snacks, lunch, or beverages are provided. Bring your own sack lunch and drink, or water/water bottle for the day.

Highlights: This one-day bus trip will include four nurseries and a sculpture garden. (Actual schedule subject to change. Final itinerary will be sent to participants after May 11.)

Southeast Wisconsin Nurseries & Sculpture Garden!

Monches Farm

Wednesday, June 1, 2016 – Cost $24

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Village Green Nursery. Committed to helping customers make the spaces in their lives more beautiful, VG has countless varieties of plants (annuals, perennials, ornamental shrubs, tropi-cals), a large assortment of containers, expan-sive garden center, a huge selection of casual furnishings and accessories in their home gal-lery. They hope to inspire customers to make their home and garden the perfect expression of their own personality. www.villagegreenrockford.com

James Gunn Private Garden. Shaded by five century old oaks, the Gunn garden features woodland garden plants, as well as many surprises. Plants have been chosen based largely on foliage shape, texture, and color rather than for blooms. There are many variet-ies of ferns, arisaemas, gingers, epimediums, tiarellas, hellebores, and Japanese toad lil-ies. Climbing hydrangeas climb to the upper oak branches. A collection of statuary is also an important part of the garden. From the antique iron gates at the entrance, a vintage sculpture of a maiden can be seen standing at the back of the garden. Figures representing the four seasons surround the slate patio, and the theme is repeated in the fountain. Feeders and houses assure a variety of birds. Conifers and Japanese maples shade a large collection of hostas. Ground covers are used extensively instead of mulch.

Anderson Japanese Gardens. This is an au-thentic Japanese Garden maintained by the highest standards that touches one’s soul. With grace, elegance, and gentle awareness, the Japanese cultural heritage exemplifies respectful humility in service to people of all cultures. Fresco at the Gardens will set up a buf-fet lunch for us with meats, cheeses, breads, chips, cookies, and bottled water. www.andersongardens.org

Platt Hill Nursery. A local family owned busi-ness, Platt Hill Nursery grows fine annual and perennial plants and offers gardening acces-sories. www.platthillnursery.com

The Barn Nursery. Open now with fresh annu-als, perennials, trees, and shrubs arriving daily. With over 10 acres of sales yards and 40 years experience in growing and planting in NW Il-linois, they are the place for quality plant ma-terial you can trust to thrive in your yard and gardens. In 1985 they opened their 400-acre growing nursery in Northern Illinois, and the trees and shrubs they grow make up their Barn Premium Select line. They carry premium plant material and have the experience required to make any landscape project a big success. www.barnnurserylandscape.com

Sat., June 25, 2016 Tour leader: Jane LaFlash,

cell: 608-243-1208, e-mail : whps05@yahoo.com

Date: Saturday, June 25, 2016

Cost: $45

Departure Time: Approximate-ly 7:30 AM from Shopko South Towne parking lot

Return Time: Approximately 6:30 PM

Registration deadline: May 28 (no refunds after May 28)

What’s included: Bus, driver tip, lunch at Anderson Gardens, admission to Anderson Gardens

What’s not included: No snacks or beverages will be provided on the bus. Bring your own water/water bottle for the day.

Highlights: This one-day bus trip will include Anderson Japanese Garden (with an in-cluded lunch), three nurseries and a private garden. (Actual schedule subject to change. Final itinerary will be sent to participants after May 31.)

Rockford, Illinois and Area!Saturday, June 25, 2016 – Cost $45

Anderson Japanese Gardens

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Stop and Smell the Roses. Doug Amon has been nurturing his rose garden Stop and Smell the Roses since he was 70 years old; he now has 400 rose bushes and a lot of curious visi-tors. His rose garden has become a quiet get-away where folks (1,700 visitors each summer) visit. There are 14 raised beds among the trel-lises, along with a pond (with a waterfall and bridge) and a gazebo. The garden has wheel-chair accessible paths. www.stopnsmelltheroses.org

Pesche’s Greenhouse. Flourishing since 1970 with three greenhouses increasing over the years to twenty, Pesche’s has the growing space to accommodate over a million plants. This unique garden complex offers something for everyone, from the beginner to the skilled gardener – the rose expert to the herbal chef – the bird lovers to the bride to be. They are also a fairy garden destination, and their gift gallery is always overflowing with unique gifts. www.peschesgreenhouse.comBreezy Hill Nursery Garden Center. With their intention to inspire and motivate, Breezy Hill produces locally grown plants to provide eco-conscious consumers green product at a significant cost savings. From designer stone and terra-cotta planters to exotic plant spe-cies, they have products that will fill any niche. With over 28 acres of garden center, they have a state-of-the-art green house, balled and bur-laped nursery stock, plant production houses, containerized nursery stock, and a Retail Gar-den Center. Show your State-by-State/WI Gar-dening magazine card for 10% discount on all plant purchases. www.breezyhillnursery.comHill Country Market. Lunch featuring local, organic, and gluten-free grocery products, produce, fine cheese, sausage, wine and beer, gourmet sandwiches, homemade soups, deli items, fresh meat, baked goods, salads, soup of the day, and fresh baked goods. www.hillcountrymarket.net

Burlington Garden Center. This locally owned garden center has been in Burlington, WI, for 40 years, offering beautiful annuals (the best begonias around!), herbs, vegetables, perenni-als, ornamental trees, and shrubs. Browse the gift shop and vintage shed, relax with a cup of coffee, and be sure to visit the railroad garden. Show your State-by-State/WI Gardening maga-zine card for 10% discount on all purchases.www.burlingtongardencenter.comTracy Hankwitz private garden. Tracy gardens on two acres overlooking Honey Lake. When she moved in 15 years ago, there was nothing but lawn and huge old pine trees. Most of the gardens are shade/part shade and feature dif-ferent types of gardens:• French potager (kitchen) garden • ornamental grass garden • Japanese style garden with a still pond• shade gardens with more than just hostas!• backyard with 3 large beds featuring dwarf

conifers, white flower garden, and a collec-tion of hellebores

• Fern Gully with moss and hydrangeas• miniature hosta garden• lavender’s blue perennial bed• small chocolate garden• patio garden featuring coleus• container gardens with succulentsSomething interesting for everyone!Milaeger’s. A little 8’ x 12’ hobby greenhouse in the backyard of Dan and Joan Milaeger was the seed that grew into the Milaeger’s of today. Ten years later, the couple offered their first crop of annuals from a 30’ x 90’ greenhouse. Today, the company has over 90 greenhous-es; thousands of specialty annuals, bedding plants, vegetables, and perennials are care-fully nutured, offering the consumer the wid-est array of plant material in the Midwest. In addition, Milaeger’s offers nearly every variety of hardy trees, shrubs, evergreens, roses and pond plants suitable for climate conditions of Zone 5 and Wisconsin. www.milaegers.com

Sat., August 13 Tour Leader: Jane Gahlman, Ph:

608-837-2317; Cell: 608-575-6630; email: jmgahlman@hotmail.com

Date: Saturday, August 13

Cost: $24

Departure time: 8:00 am. from Shopko South Towne pkg lot

Return time: approx. 6:30 pm

Registration deadline: Satur-day, July 23 (No refunds after July 23)

What’s included: Bus, driver tip

What’s not included: Lunch is on your own – either bring a sack lunch or purchase lunch at Hill Country Market. There will be NO water or beverages on the bus–please plan accord-ingly and bring your own refill-able water bottle or beverage for the day.

Highlights: On this one-day bus trip we will visit four garden centers, two private gardens, and a country market. (Actual schedule subject to change. Final itinerary will be sent to participants after July 23)

Delavan to Racine Day Trip!

Pesche’s Greenhouse

Saturday, August 13, 2016 – Cost $24

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Wisconsin Hardy Plant Society, Inc.211 S. Fair Oaks Avenue, Madison, WI 53704

January 2016 Newsletter

Have questions about your member-ship? Contact Jane LaFlash at whps05@yahoo.com or (608) 243-1208.

2016 Bus Trips Brochure

2016 WHPS Bus Trips included:Southeast WI Nurseries & Sculpture Garden Day Trip – Wednesday, June 1

Rockford, IL and Area Day Trip – Saturday, June 25,

Delavan to Racine Day Trip – Saturday, August 13

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Bus Trip Registration for Saturday, August 13, Delavan to Racine Day Trip — $24*Registration Deadline Saturday, July 23, 2016

Name ___________________________________ Address _________________________________________________________

Phone(s) _____________________________________ Email _______________________________________

COST: $24 _____ (No refunds after July 23, 2016) Tour Leader: Jane Gahlman, Ph: 608-837-2317; Cell: 608-575-6630; email: jmgahlman@hotmail.comBus departs: 8:00 am. from Shopko South Towne parking lot. Estimated return is 6:30 pm.What’s included: Bus and driver’s tip.What’s not included: Lunch is on your own – either bring a sack lunch or purchase lunch at Hill Country Market. There will be NO water or beverages on the bus—please plan accordingly and bring your own refillable water bottle or beverage for the day.

I/we agree to release Wisconsin Hardy Plant Society, trip tour guide and board members from any liability for loss or injury of any kind on this tour.

Signature(s) _______________________________________________________ Date __________________________________

Emergency Contact Name ____________________________________________ Phone _________________________________Make checks payable to Wisconsin Hardy Plant Society and mail to Jane LaFlash, 211 S. Fair Oaks Ave., Madison, WI 53704

*Only checks/forms sent U.S. Mail are accepted. • Separate checks for each trip • nonmembers pay additional $10 membership fee

Bus Trip Registration for Saturday, June 25, Rockford IL and Area —$45*Registration Deadline Saturday, May 28, 2016

Name ___________________________________ Address _________________________________________________________

Phone(s) _____________________________________ Email _______________________________________COST: $45 _____ No refunds after May 28. Tour Leader: Jane LaFlash, cell: 608-243-1208, e-mail : whps05@yahoo.comDeparture: Approximately 7:30 am. from Shopko South Towne parking lot on Saturday, June 25. Estimated return is 6:30 pm.What’s included: Bus, driver tip, lunch at Anderson Gardens, admission to Anderson GardensWhat’s not included: No snacks or beverages will be provided on the bus. Bring your own water/water bottle for the day.I/we agree to release Wisconsin Hardy Plant Society, trip tour guide and board members from any liability for loss or injury of any kind on this tour.

Signature(s) _______________________________________________________ Date __________________________________

Emergency Contact Name ____________________________________________ Phone _________________________________Make checks payable to Wisconsin Hardy Plant Society and send to Jane LaFlash, 211 S. Fair Oaks Ave., Madison, WI 53704

*Only checks/forms sent U.S. Mail are accepted. • Separate checks for each trip • nonmembers pay additional $10 membership fee

Bus Trip Registration for Wed., June 1, Southeast Wisconsin Nurseries and Sculpture Garden —$24*Registration Deadline Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Name ____________________________________________ Phone(s) _____________________________________

Address ____________________________________________________Email _______________________________________COST: $24 _____ No refunds after May 11. Tour Leader: John Cannon, cell: 608-772-9854, e-mail: jtcannon@wisc.eduBus departs from Shopko South Towne Parking Lot at 7:30 am. Wednesday, June 1. Estimated return is 6:00 pm.What’s included: Bus and driver’s tip.What’s not included: NO snacks, lunch, or beverages will be provided. Bring your own sack lunch and drink, or water/water bottle for the day.I/we agree to release Wisconsin Hardy Plant Society, trip tour guide and board members from any liability for loss or injury of any kind on this tour.

Signature(s) _______________________________________________________ Date __________________________________

Emergency Contact Name ____________________________________________ Phone _________________________________Make checks payable to Wisconsin Hardy Plant Society and send to Jane LaFlash, 211 S. Fair Oaks Ave., Madison, WI 53704

*Only checks/forms sent U.S. Mail are accepted. • Separate checks for each trip • nonmembers pay additional $10 membership fee

Registration Form2016 WHPS Bus Trips