Patents Assigned to Walters Gardens Inc.
  • plant named ‘Summer Carnival’
    Patent number: PP31587
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of winter-hardy, herbaceous, perennial, hybrid Hibiscus plant named ‘Summer Carnival’ comprising an upright habit of multiple, well-branched, basal stems producing flowers near the top of the plant. Flowers are hot cerise, and the calyces display light green sepal centers and pale yellow margins while in bud and after flower drop. The foliage is primarily three-lobed, deeply incised, and grayish-green with creamy irregular margins frequently blushed with reddish purple. The stems exposed to high ultraviolet light develop reddish coloration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • x plant named ‘Femme Fatale’
    Patent number: PP31600
    Abstract: A new and unique x Mangave plant named ‘Femme Fatale’ characterized by compact habit and lanceolate foliage with medium green color and with high ultra violet light exposure developing mottling and blushing to develop nearly solid greyed-purple coloration. Foliage has small semi-flexible marginal teeth and semi-flexible terminal spine. The new plant has a moderate growth rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • x plant named ‘Shadow Waltz’
    Patent number: PP31601
    Abstract: A new and unique x Mangave plant named ‘Shadow Waltz’ characterized by a medium mound of broad, fleshy, mostly flat foliage with small flexible cream-colored marginal teeth and lacking sharp terminal spine. Foliage is upright to outwardly toward stem with a tendency to arch in maturity. The numerous flowers are upright to slightly outwardly, a mixture of yellowish-chartreuse becoming blushed or speckled with red in maturity, formed on stiff, branched stalks. The new plant is suitable for the garden or as a potted plant in the garden or home.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Bumbleberry’
    Patent number: PP31602
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of perennial Salvia plant named ‘Bumbleberry’ characterized by its small strong purplish red-colored flowers densely arranged in verticils, with compact rounded habit and stiff, upright, heavily-branched stems and strong vigorous growth rate and small gray-green foliage. Salvia ‘Bumbleberry’ is winter-hardy and especially useful for landscaping and containerized ornamentals by itself or in combination with other plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A. Hansen
  • X plant named ‘Jumping Jacks’
    Patent number: PP31628
    Abstract: A new and unique x Hansara plant named ‘Jumping Jacks’ characterized by compact habit and upright curving, lanceolate foliage with grayish-green color and in high ultra violet light exposure developing burgundy speckling on top and bottom. The leaf tips are narrowly acute without mucros. The marginal teeth are small and flexible. The plant produces yellowish flowers with orangish backs from orangish buds on tall stiff scapes are suitable as a potted plant or for the garden and loaded with nectar for attracting hummingbirds or for use as a houseplant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • x plant named ‘Painted Desert’
    Patent number: PP31630
    Abstract: A new and unique x Mangave plant named ‘Painted Desert’ characterized by compact habit and lanceolate foliage with chartreuse green color with darker margins in lower ultraviolet light exposure and in high ultraviolet light exposure developing reddish mottling with glaucous covering speckling and blushing concentrated in the basal portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Grape Timeless’
    Patent number: PP31640
    Abstract: The new and distinct hybrid of Heuchera plant named ‘Grape Timeless’ with medium-sized, shallowly lobed, glossy foliage with rounded apices and lobes. Tightly-branched, upright panicles are produced from early summer to early fall for about fourteen weeks displaying large, bright, rosy-pink flowers. The new plant has a compact habit, is vigorous and produces showy, long-flowering, herbaceous, perennial mounds of leaves beginning the season purplish-red and developing a greyed-purple overlay and dark charcoal-purple surrounding the veins, effective as a specimen plant, en masse, or as a container plant in the landscape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Timeless Glow’
    Patent number: PP31677
    Abstract: The new and distinct hybrid of Heuchera plant named ‘Timeless Glow’ with many small-sized foliage with rounded apices and lobes. Tightly-branched, upright, wine-colored panicles are repeatedly produced from early summer to early fall for at least fourteen weeks displaying large, rosy-pink flowers. The new plant has a compact habit, is vigorous and produces showy, long-flowering, herbaceous, perennial mounds of leaves beginning the season chartreuse-yellow and developing a silver overlay between the veins, and a dark red region surrounding the veins. The new plants is effective as a specimen plant, en masse, or as a container plant in the landscape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Lucky Lemons’
    Patent number: PP31678
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Red Hot Poker plant named Kniphofia ‘Lucky Lemons’ with long, gracefully-arching, strap-like, keeled, glaucous, gray-green foliage and numerous spikes. Habit is densely growing, winter-hardy, tolerant of heat, deer and rabbits. Numerous scapes of green buds that lighten to pastel-yellow before opening to creamy-yellow flowers on tall scapes beginning in mid-July and repeating for five weeks. The new plant is useful for landscaping as a specimen, en masse, or as a long-lasting cut flower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Sassy Summer Lemon’
    Patent number: PP31693
    Abstract: The new and distinct Yarrow, Achillea plant named ‘Sassy Summer Lemon’, with narrow, silvery, fern-like foliage; tall, stiff, heavily branched peduncles with bright, sunny yellow inflorescences, beginning in mid-June and continuing for about six weeks. The new plant is useful for landscaping, as a specimen or en masse and as a cut flower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Opening Act Pink-a-Dot’
    Patent number: PP31732
    Abstract: A new and unique hybrid cultivar of garden phlox named Phlox ‘Opening Act Pink-a-Dot’ multi-stemmed, medium upright height, slowly-spreading habit with clean, medium-green, glossy, lanceolate leaves with exceptional powdery mildew resistance. Foliage is thick and leathery on stiff stems. Flowers are near white with deep pink eye resembling a star, produced on branched peduncles and nearly cover the top of the plant beginning early summer, about two weeks prior typical Phlox paniculata cultivars and continuing for about five weeks. ‘Opening Act Pink-a-Dot’ is especially suitable as a potted plant, for the garden, for attracting hummingbirds and butterflies, and for cut flower arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Sassy Summer Silver’
    Patent number: PP31754
    Abstract: The new and distinct Yarrow, Achillea plant named ‘Sassy Summer Silver’, with narrow, silvery, fern-like foliage with moderately dissected lobules; tall, stiff, heavily branched peduncles with bright, golden yellow inflorescences, beginning in mid to late June and continuing for about six weeks. The new plant is useful for landscaping, as a specimen or en masse and as a cut flower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Sassy Summer Taffy’
    Patent number: PP31755
    Abstract: The new and distinct Yarrow, Achillea plant named ‘Sassy Summer Taffy’, with narrow, moderate green, highly-dissected, fern-like foliage; tall, stiff, heavily branched peduncles with purplish-red inflorescences, beginning in mid-June and continuing for about six weeks. The new plant is useful for landscaping, as a specimen or en masse and as a cut flower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Peter Cottontail’
    Patent number: PP31756
    Abstract: The new and distinct Yarrow plant named Achillea ‘Peter Cottontail’, dense mounded habit, of upright heavily branched stems of medium height; linear, serrate, slightly-glossy, deep-green leaves; heavy flowering of white, predominately sterile flowers in large heads averaging over 100 florets per head beginning in mid-June and continuing for nearly seven weeks. The new plant is useful as a specimen landscape plant, mass planting or cut flower in arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Boogie Woogie’
    Patent number: PP31767
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of perennial Sedum plant named ‘Boogie Woogie’ is characterized by drought-tolerant, winter-hardy, tight, low, clumps, flower stems that remain upright in the center of the plant throughout the growing season, small, medium-green, glossy foliage with variegated margin of cream blushed with reddish-purple and numerous bright yellow flowers clustered on small heads that completely covering the compact, low-mounded plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Crane Dance’
    Patent number: PP31780
    Abstract: The new and distinct hybrid of Hardy Geranium plant named ‘Crane Dance’ with palmately-lobed, deeply cleft foliage having deep green color with purple overlay and developing to brilliant reddish in the fall. The plant has numerous, densely-branched, stiff, erect, umbels with bluish-purple flowers displayed for two to three weeks beginning early summer. The new plant is vigorous and produces large upright mounded clumps suitable for landscape use in full-sun to medium-shaded garden.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Smoke and Mirrors’
    Patent number: PP31785
    Abstract: The new and distinct hybrid of Heuchera plant named ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ with rounded, slightly shiny, shallowly-dissected leaf blades having silvery coloration with strong purplish undertones in spring and becoming silver with deep green surrounding the veins. The new plant has deep reddish calyces on mostly-upright highly-branched panicles. The new plant is vigorous, resists melting out in high heat and humidity and produces medium clumps with many dense leaves and is useful in the landscape or in containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Raspberry Eclipse’
    Patent number: PP31809
    Abstract: A new and distinct Hemerocallis plant named ‘Raspberry Eclipse’ characterized by winter-hardy compact habit with clean medium-green foliage possessing a purplish-bronze blush that goes dormant in the winter. The flowers are rounded, fragrant, single flowers with raspberry-purple, a lavender-purple band and are highlighted by a ruffled lemon-yellow picotee edge and light green throat. Both tepal sets are slightly reflexed with the outer tepal set having consistent, considerable, yellow crisped margins. The new plant flowers up to 67 cm tall with three-way branching beginning about mid-July.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Chris Meyer
  • plant named ‘Coral Craze’
    Patent number: PP31889
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of Echinacea plant named ‘Coral Craze’, with fragrant flowers on strong stems having coral pink ray florets that mature to lavender-pink with large orange center cone and near black stems; The flowers from mid-summer to late summer, and is suitable as a potted plant, for the landscape, and for cut flower arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • plant named ‘Delft Teacups’
    Patent number: PP31574
    Abstract: The new and distinct bellflower plant, Campanula plant named ‘Delft Teacups’ with dense, compact, mounded habit; dark-green deltoid foliage and numerous bluish campanulate flowers with near white centers over a fourteen week period beginning in late spring. The new plant is suitable for landscaping as a specimen, en masse, or in containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen