Lauritzen Gardens

AHS Display Garden
Address: 100 Bancroft Street; Omaha, NE 68108
Phone: (402) 346-4002
Lauritzen Gardens Website
Established: 2003 Number of Varieties: 250 Looks Best: May to September
Year Designated AHS Display Garden: 2006

The Founders Garden is a place where one can pause for solitude or reflection. It was the first garden at Lauritzen Gardens, established in 1993 in collaboration with the Shady Choice Hosta Society. It is made up of hundreds of beautiful hosta representing nearly 50 varieties including one of the largest leaf varieties, H. 'Sum and Substance', a garden gazebo and many different flowers and plants. The Garden in the Glen has 250 varieties of hosta originated in Omaha by Landmark Gardens. The garden totals more than 1000 hosta clumps. The gardens include many varieties of astilbe, dicentra, heuchera and ferns as well.