Patents Assigned to Walters Gardens Inc.
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Publication number: 20210219479Abstract: A new and distinct Agapanthus plant named ‘Little Galaxy’ characterized by winter-hardy, very compact habit with clean, lanceolate, medium-green foliage that goes dormant in the Michigan winter; single medium blue flowers on numerous, short stems producing rounded globes of flowering beginning about mid-July and with repeating new scapes into mid-September for about eight weeks.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2020Publication date: July 15, 2021Applicant: Walters Gardens Inc.Inventor: Hans A. Hansen
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Publication number: 20210161055Abstract: A new and unique crested Japanese fern Athyrium plant named ‘Crested Surf’ characterized by stiff upright habit and compound foliage with alternate deep-green bipinnately with light-green color near the center and wine-colored petioles and midribs. Pinnae and pinnules have compound crested apices.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2019Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: Walters Gardens IncInventor: Hans A. Hansen
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Publication number: 20210161048Abstract: A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Foxy Lady’ characterized by a compact mound of short, broad, fleshy, heavily-glaucous leaves with centers of silvery-colored with lavender undertones, developing irregular smoky-purple spots and stripes in high ultraviolet light exposure. The variegated creamy-white margin develops spots of purplish-pink and contrasts with the orangish brown sharp tip of the teeth and short, sharp, terminal spines. ‘Foxy Lady’ is suitable for the garden landscape or as a potted plant around the garden or in the home.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2019Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: Walters Gardens IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Publication number: 20210161047Abstract: A new and distinct Hemerocallis plant named ‘Sound of My Heart’ characterized by winter-hardy compact habit with clean medium-green foliage that goes dormant in the winter. The flowers are rounded, fragrant, single, pastel-pink, with a wide wine-purple band and matching picotee edge and yellow to light green throat. Outer and inner tepal sets are slightly reflexed with the inner tepal set having consistent, considerable, wine purple crisped margins. The new plant flowers on stems up to 70 cm tall with four-way branching beginning about mid-July and repeating into October.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2019Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: Walters Gardens IncInventor: Chris Meyer
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Publication number: 20210144897Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of winter-hardy, herbaceous, perennial, hybrid Hibiscus plant named ‘Evening Rose’ comprising an upright, rounded, compact, mound habit of multiple, well-branched, mostly upright basal stems producing flowers from the bottom to the top of the plant for at least six weeks beginning mid-summer. Flowers have petals vivid purplish-red with deep red veins radiating to the margin and moderate red shiny eye surrounded by deep dark-red band set off with a deep red and white striped column displaying yellow-colored pollen. The foliage is mainly tri-lobed with burgundy color.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2019Publication date: May 13, 2021Applicant: Walters Gardens IncInventor: Hans A. Hansen
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Patent number: PP32986Abstract: A new and distinct Yarrow, Achillea plant named ‘Firefly Diamond’, with narrow, green, fern-like foliage; tall, stiff, heavily branched stems with white ray florets in large cymes, beginning in late June and continuing for about seven weeks and repeating if deadheaded. The new plant is useful for landscaping, as a specimen or en masse and as a cut flower.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33006Abstract: A unique cultivar of Hybrid Creeping Phlox plant named ‘Majestic Magenta’ characterized by vigorous, dense, low spreading, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with short, bright green, linear to awl-shaped leaves. Flowering begins in late-April and continuing for up to four weeks, in cooler weather conditions, on heavily-branched peduncles and completely cover the plant in peak season. Petals have a small notch and the tips and newly opened flowers and mature flowers remain a rich dark-pink color. The new plant is able to withstand dry conditions once established, and the foliage stays clean and resists mildew. The new plant is especially suitable for the landscape as a potted plant and in the garden as a specimen or en masse.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33032Abstract: A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Foxy Lady’ characterized by a compact mound of short, broad, fleshy, heavily-glaucous leaves with centers of silvery-colored with lavender undertones, developing irregular smoky-purple spots and stripes in high ultraviolet light exposure. The variegated creamy-white margin develops spots of purplish-pink and contrasts with the orangish brown sharp tip of the teeth and short, sharp, terminal spines. ‘Foxy Lady’ is suitable for the garden landscape or as a potted plant around the garden or in the home.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33057Abstract: A new and unique crested Japanese fern Athyrium plant named ‘Crested Surf’ characterized by stiff upright habit and compound foliage with alternate deep-green bipinnately with light-green color near the center and wine-colored petioles and midribs. Pinnae and pinnules have compound crested apices.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33063Abstract: A new and distinct hybrid of Lungwort plant named Pulmonaria ‘Spot On’ characterized by silver spotting on medium green foliage, purplish-pink to salmon-pink flower buds on dense, upright, highly branched stems, that open into purplish-blue campanulate flowers in dense panicles. The new plant has silver spotting on the upper side of both basal and cauline. The plant also show excellent vigor and the foliage has good mildew resistance.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33080Abstract: A new and unique x Mangave plant named ‘Bridal Falls’ characterized by a medium mound of broad, fleshy, longitudinally folded, medium green foliage having a broad creamy-white margin and minty-green intermediate zone. The leaves cascade or arch downward toward the apices. Foliage displays faint spots that in low ultraviolet light are dark green in the leaf centers or purplish-pink in the margins. The new plant is suitable for the garden or as a potted plant in the garden or home.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33132Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental cultivar of hybrid ornamental Bee Balm plant named Monarda ‘Leading Lady Orchid’ with slightly-glossy, powdery mildew-tolerant foliage, flower heads of magenta-pink flowers with lower petals accented by dark fuchsia spotting, each globular head subtended by wine-colored bracts. Flowering in dense verticils beginning about two weeks earlier than typical Monarda didyma cultivars. Flowers of side branches stretching above initial globular heads extends the fresh appearance over along period. The plant habit is short, compact and winter-hardy, useful in the landscape as a specimen, en masse, or as a containerized plant.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33166Abstract: A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Fiercely Fabulous’ characterized by compact habit of lanceolate foliage with medium grayish-green color and grayed-purplish spots and burgundy air-brushing with strong ultraviolet light exposure. The new plant has numerous chartreuse flowers with burgundy blushing on tall, stiff, highly-branched scapes. The new plant is suitable as a potted houseplant plant, as a container plant for the patio or garden and for the garden or planted in the landscape, and the flowers are loaded with nectar for attracting hummingbirds.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33181Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of winter-hardy, herbaceous, perennial, hybrid Hibiscus plant named ‘French Vanilla’ comprising a compact, upright, spreading, mounded habit of multiple, well-branched, basal stems producing flowers from the bottom to the top of the plant from late July to early September. Flowers have overlapping, moderately-rippled petals opening creamy-yellow with slightly darker veins and dark red shiny eye with leading margin folded underneath giving flowers extra strength and resistance to wind damage. The flower buds open at the apex one to two days prior to the flower opening up flat, and the petals in the bud stage are greenish-yellow. The foliage is typically three-lobed, and rich olive-green with greyed-purple coloration when young.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33192Abstract: A new and unique Agave plant named ‘Sabertooth Tiger’ characterized by dense, low, mounded plant habit of short, obovate, variegated leaves having wide creamy-white centers with green margins. The leaves have firm, sharp large-sized marginal teeth positioned on the distal apical region and show occasional imprints from marginal spines of leaves above or below. The marginal teeth curve upwardly and toward shoot apex. The apical spine is long, firm and sharp. The plant is useful in the landscape as a specimen, en masse, or also in a container in the home or landscape.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33234Abstract: A new and distinct plant cultivar of hardy herbaceous false indigo plant named Baptisia ‘Blue Bubbly’ characterized by lavender-blue colored on long spikes beginning in mid-June in Michigan and continuing for two to three weeks. The new plant has a narrow, tall, upright, vase-shaped, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with glaucous medium-green tri-foliate foliage and is suitable for landscaping as a specimen or en masse.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33265Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Voices in the Wind’ of medium-sized, arching, long, lanceolate, bluish-green leaves having wavy creamy-yellow margins with numerous feathering intermediate colors and a narrowly acute curling apex. The flowers are pale lavender with darker lavender veins appearing in mid-July. Prior to flower bud opening, the floral bracts produce a broad, short, light lavender, water-lily effect of compact lanceolate bracts. ‘Voices in the Wind’ is attractive and is useful in the landscape, as a specimen or en masse or as a container plant.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33266Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Hope Springs Eternal’ with medium, rounded-mound habit of heavy-substance, stiff, variegated foliage. Leaves are glaucous, broadly ovate with undulate margins, creamy-white margins, bluish-green centers and intermediate colors between. Flowers have pale purple margins with slightly darker veins, held above foliage beginning in early July. The new plant is attractive for landscaping in the garden as a specimen, in mass and as a container.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33267Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Time in a Bottle’ of arching, lanceolate, chartreuse leaves having a lustrous underside and moderately wavy margins. The flowers are dark purple and tightly congested on upright to slightly-outwardly dark-reddish scapes above the foliage and typically do not open. ‘Time in a Bottle’ has excellent, small, compact, mounded habit and is useful in the landscape, in containers, as a specimen or en masse.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33277Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Party Streamers’ with medium, rounded-mound habit of arching chartreuse foliage. Leaves are long and narrow with wavy margins. Flowering begins in late July through late August with tepals opening wide to show strong violet coloration with darker veins. Seed pods take on purplish-red coloration when developing in high light conditions. The new plant is attractive for landscaping in the garden as a specimen, in mass and as a container.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
