Boerner Botanical Gardens
AHS Display GardenAddress: 9400 Boerner Drive; Hales Corners, WI 53130
Phone: (414) 525-5600 Boermer Botanical Gardens Website
Established: 1939 : Number of Varieties: 237 : Looks Best: May to September
Year Designated AHS Display Garden: 2003
Boerner Botanical Gardens is an intimate collection of formal garden spaces which host a variety of plant collections from ornamental grasses to phenomenal peonies. Rich with history as well as beauty, the gardens and surrounding arboretum offer something for everyone. The formal gardens include perennial, peony, rose, hosta, shrub, annual, daylily, herb, and trial gardens. Also featured is a rain-harvesting site.
Green Bay Botanical Garden
AHS Display GardenAddress: 2600 Larsen Road; Green Bay, WI 54303
Phone: (920) 490-9457 Green Bay Botanical Garden Website
Established: 1996 : Number of Varieties: 366 : Looks Best: June to September
Year Designated AHS Display Garden: 2010
Green Bay Botanical Garden has over 1258 hostas, representing 366 different cultivars. The plants are concentrated in the Green & Gold Hosta Society bed, the newly created King Shade Garden and an area near the Lux Foundation Upper Rose Garden and the Cora Vanderperren Cottage Garden. Visitors will also find hostas scattered throughout other shady areas of the garden including the Larsen Orchard, Memorial Grove and the Birches.
Olbrich Botanical Gardens
AHS Display GardenAddress: 3330 Atwood Avenue, Madison, WI 53704
Phone: (608) 246-4550 Olbrich Botanical Gardens Website
Established: 1952 : Number of Varieties: 200 : Looks Best: Year Round
Year Designated AHS Display Garden: 2004
The Starkweather Creek Shade Garden is located in a small woodland of river birch nestled along the shoreline of Starkweather Creek and features hundreds of shade-loving perennials, including hostas, epimediums and sedges. The Atrium Shade Garden is a shady oasis created by the framework of large native downy hawthorn and is home to another fine collection of hostas, ferns, and shade-loving perennials.
Rotary Gardens Hosta Hollow
AHS Display GardenAddress: 1455 Palmer Drive, Janesville, WI 53545
Phone: (608) 752-3885 Rotary Gardens Hosta Hollow Website
Established: 1952 : Number of Varieties: 200 : Looks Best: Year Round
Year Designated AHS Display Garden: 2004
Rotary Botanical Gardens, a 20-acre non-profit botanical garden, is home to many dramatic and themed gardens. Some have an international focus, such as the Japanese, Scottish, French Formal, Italian and English Cottage Gardens. Also included are less formally-structured gardens including one of very few fern and moss gardens recognized by the Hardy Fern Foundation in the United States, as well as shade, prairie and woodland gardens. Also on site is the Cottage Garden Gallery which features the works of local artisans.