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What’s happening at the NDSU horticulture gardens?

Spring Fever Garden Forum 2018

Barb Laschkewitsch

barbara.laschkewitsc@ndsu.edu

Where and what are the NDSU horticulture gardens?

Corner of 18th St. and 12th Ave. N in Fargo-west edge of the NDSU campus

What are they for?

• Teaching

• Research

• Extension

Echinacea/Heuchera Trials

2013 Open House for daylily beds

2017 Yard and Garden Event

Enjoyment!

Bedding Plant Trials

Small shade area in trees

Handicapped accessible beds

Full sun beds

Bedding Plant Trials• Evaluated twice a year-July and August/Sept.

• Report at: https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/plantsciences/research/gardens

All-America Selections

• All-America Selections (AAS) is an independent, non-profit organization founded in 1932 that tests new plant varieties then introduces the best garden performers as AAS Winners.

• Categories: Ornamentals from Seed, Ornamentals from Vegetative Cuttings, Edibles (fruits and vegetables from seed) and Herbaceous Perennials (first winners to be announced in 2019)

• www.all-americaselections.org

Bed with All-America Selections winners

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2014 AAS Winners:

Angelonia ‘Serenita Pink’ (seed)

Osteospermum ‘Akila Daisy White’ (seed)

Gaura ‘Sparkle White’ (seed)

Ornamental Pepper ‘NuMex Easter’ (seed)

New Guinea Impatiens ‘Florific Sweet Orange’ (seed)

Penstemon ‘Arabesque Red’ (seed)

2015 AAS Winners:

Dianthus ‘Jolt Pink’ (seed)Petunia ‘Tidal Wave Red Velour’ (seed)

Salvia ‘Summer Jewel White’ (seed)

Impatiens ‘SunPatiens Spreading Shell Pink’ (veg.)

Impatiens ‘Bounce Pink Flame’ (veg.)

2016 AAS Winners:

Ornamental Pepper ‘Black Hawk’ (seed)

Salvia ‘Summer Jewel Lavender’ (seed)

Geranium ‘Brocade Cherry Night’ (veg.)

Geranium ‘Brocade Fire’ (veg.)

2017 AAS Winners:

Dianthus ‘Supra Pink’ (seed)Celosia ‘Asian Garden’ (seed)

Penstemon ‘Twizzle Purple’ (seed)Petunia ‘Evening Scentsation’ (seed)

Geranium ‘Calliope Medium Dark Red’ (veg.)

2017 AAS Winners:

Verbena ‘EnduraScape Pink Bicolor’ (veg.)

Vinca ‘Mega Bloom Orchid Halo’ (seed)

Vinca ‘Mega Bloom Pink Halo’ (seed) Zinnia ‘Profusion Red’ (seed)

2018 AAS winners:• Canna ‘South Pacific

Orange’(seed)

• Cuphea ‘FloriGlory Diana’ (veg.)

• Gypsophila ‘Gypsy White Improved’ (seed)

• Marigold ‘Super Hero Spry’

• Ornamental Pepper ‘Onyx Red’ (seed)

• Zinnia ‘Queeny Lime Orange’ (seed)

All photos courtesy of All-America Selections

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NDSU Daylily Collection

• The first public American Hemerocallis Society historic daylily display garden

Almost 2,000 named cultivars and 24 species

Some of the oldest:

Apricot-Yeld (1893)Orangeman-Yeld (1902)

Baroni-Sprenger (1903)

Dr. Regel-Mueller (1904) Gold Dust-Yeld (1905)

Lenington All-American Award Winners bed

This award was started in 1970 by the

American Hemerocallis Society

Given annually to the daylily voted the best

performer over a wide geographic area.

Originated by George Lenington (1902-1990).

Cultivars must have been introduced for at

least 10 years.

Some Lenington Winners:

Bela Lugosi-2007 Designer Jeans-1995

Jan’s Twister-2003Paper Butterfly-1998

Peggy Jeffcoat-2010

Smoky Mountain Autumn-1997

Darwin Perennials-Division of Ball Horticulture

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Darwin plants-2015• Agastache ‘Little Adder’

• Geranium ‘Miss Heidi’

• Heliopsis ‘Double Sunstruck’

• Heliopsis ‘Sunstruck’

• Heuchera ‘Frosty Morn’

• Heuchera ‘Carnival Black Olive’

• Heuchera ‘Carnival Candy Apple’

• Heuchera ‘Carnival Cocomint’

• Monarda ‘Balmy Lilac’

• Monarda ‘Balmy Pink’

• Monarda ‘Balmy Rose’

• Perovskia ‘Crazy Blue’

• Salvia nemorosa ‘Lyrical Blues’

• Salvia nemorosa ‘Lyrical White’

Salvia ‘Lyrical White’ and ‘Lyrical Blue’ Russian Sage ‘Crazy Blue’

Monarda ‘Balmy’ series

Darwin-2016

• Achillea millefolium ‘New Vintage Red’

• Achillea ‘New Vintage Rose’

• Achillea ‘New Vintage Violet’

• Achillea ‘New Vintage White’

• Hemerocallis ‘Double Pardon Me’

• Monarda didyma ‘Balmy Purple’

• Salvia nemorosa ‘Blue Marvel’

Achillea ‘New Vintage’ series

Salvia ‘Blue Marvel’

Darwin-2017• Dianthus ‘Mountain Frost Pink Carpet’

• Dianthus ‘Mountain Frost Pink PomPom’

• Dianthus ‘Mountain Frost Rose Bouquet’

• Dianthus ‘Mountain Frost Silver Strike’

• Dianthus ‘Mountain Frost Twinkle Pink’

• Dianthus ‘Mountain Frost Twinkle White’

• Echinacea ‘Sombrero Granada Gold’

• Echinacea ‘Sombrero Lemon Yellow Impd.’

• Echinacea ‘Sombrero Sangrita’

• Miscanthus ‘Bandwidth’

• Helianthus ‘Autumn Gold’

• Iberis ‘Snowsation’

• Leucanthemum ‘White Magic’

• Phlox ‘Cherry Cream’

• Salvia nemorosa ‘Rose Marvel’

Echinacea ‘Sombrero Sangrita’ Salvia ‘Rose Marvel’

Dianthus ‘Mountain Frost Rose Bouquet’

Dianthus ‘Mountain Frost Silver Strike’

Sun/ Shade Perennials

Meadow Garden Xeric Garden

Planting in August 2011

August 2017

Pollinator attractors

Great Golden Digger Wasp on Hairy Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemumsp.) photo courtesy Kathy Wiederholt

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Perennial Ornamental Grasses

Plants taught in the Herbaceous Ornamental Plants class

Miscellaneous perennials

Perennial Plant Association perennial plants of the year area Mostly native pollinator plants

Miscellaneous perennials

Heuchera/Echinacea trial Coming in 2018• Evaluate pollinator-friendly

perennials for winter hardiness• Sedum

• Baptisia

• Monarda

• Aster

• Yard and Garden Day scheduled for September 6; time yet to be determined

Baptisia ‘Grape Taffy’ Sedum ‘Cherry Truffle’

2017 Yard and Garden Day-Children’s activity

Questions?