Starting in Waukesha, the garden of Barbara and Duane Nickel is a splendid example of the development of an English cottage garden in a city lot.  Their garden is located across the street from Carroll College (just follow the green signs to the campus) at 125 West College Avenue. Barbara is an admitted daylily addict and is having trouble finding room for all her new daylily plants, however, there is much more to see than daylilies. The garden contains a wide variety of other perennials, as well as garden art. If you are looking for a large grassy lawn area  you will be disappointed.

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Sue Schimanski, 12620 Bell Road in Caledonia describes her place as a peaceful and cozy country farm with rustic barn, outbuildings and stocked pond surrounded by a wide variety of daylilies, perennials and hostas. This is accentuated by unique large pots filled with a beautiful mixture of annuals, a productive vegetable garden and many flowering shrubs and trees. Plenty for the eye to see and admire. A gardener’s delight!

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Blodgett Daylily Gardens,1008 E. Broadway, Waukesha, Eugene and Linda Blodgett—Our garden is located on a double lot, with a Spanish style house and a terrace;   We are a working daylily hybridizing and propagation garden.  There is plenty for you to see, with our selection of daylilies, the beautiful flower beds, roses, lilies, hosta, and some unusual and rare plants.  There is now a rose arbor at the entrance to a nature path, and a wider gate and sidewalk for easy wheelchair access to the lower garden.  There is plenty of room for you to sit down, relax and enjoy the gardens.  

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Ed Kraus, 11625 W. James Avenue, Franklin  The Kraus gardens contain a mix of many varieties of perennials, with daylilies as the featured plant.   Over 300 different daylily cultivars are grown in about 15 beds in a variety of settings.  Set in a suburban 1/2 acre lot, modern daylilies are featured, from hybridizers such as Curt Hanson, Dan Bachman, Luddy Lambertson, Pat Stamile, Kelly Mitchell, John Rice, Nate Bremmer, Steve Moldovan, Margo Reed and others. Older daylily cultivars coexist in the mix, including some older Wild’s and about a dozen registered to Ezra Kraus from the 1950s. To proved further interest, the first set of newly hybridized seedlings should be blooming this summer.

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Barb and Jack Kramer, 522 Beechwood Drive, Cedarburg—Walking up the drive you'll see several planting beds with perennials, trees and shrubs.  One garden with a ginko tree in the middle is surrounded by spufo's.  Walk a bit further and you'll see a fence line with grapes, asparagus, and berries.  Behind the fence you'll enjoy a walk around a natural area.  Next, walk through a wooded area of Norway Spruce and Arborvitae to a clearing where you'll find our home which is surrounded by more gardens with grasses, sedums, vegetables, annuals, hostas, daylilies, and many other perennials.  Behind the house is another woods of white pines.  All the beds are controlled keeping each plant as a specimen.

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Florence and Harold Steen, W310 N6759 Chenequa Drive, Hartland, (North Lake area) The Steen gardens feature daylilies, hostas and miniature roses. Harold has over 300 modern daylily cultivars, mostly prize winners, as well as companion plants in beds, along the property border and in the rear yard. He also has a collection of medium and large size hostas in several shady areas. Florence’s immaculate gardens are adjacent to the house and feature substantial collections of miniature roses, miniature hostas and Heuchera.

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