Patents Assigned to Walters Gardens Inc.
  • Patent number: PP34910
    Abstract: A new and unique cultivar of hyssop, Agastache plant named ‘Royal Raspberry’ with medium-sized, dense, mounded, well-branched habit and spring foliage color with burgundy cast. The large flowers of rosy-purple coloration begin in early summer and cover the top two-thirds of the plant. The effective flowering season is extended with burgundy-colored calyxes in densely branched panicles. The new plant is useful in the landscape and as a cut flower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP35035
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental Spiked Speedwell, Veronica spicata plant named ‘Ever After’, with medium height, stiff, upright, compound branched spikes of densely-arranged lilac-colored flowers beginning in early summer and continuing for twelve to fourteen weeks above dark-green, lanceolate, highly lustrous foliage. The new plant is useful in the landscape as a specimen, en masse, as a container plant, or as a cut flower, and maintains its foliage through the season with good disease tolerance, specifically rust resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP35054
    Abstract: A new and unique plant cultivar of perennial carnation or pinks, Dianthus plant named ‘Pinky Promise’ with numerous, single, lightly-sweet fragrant flowers producing a full rounded face. Each flower has five overlapping petals that are fuchsia-pink colored with small darker red bar in the center. Petals have moderate dentate apices. Flowering season is strong for four weeks beginning in late spring nearly completely covering the dome of the plant. The habit is compact, heavily branched, moderately spreading, and dense, with lightly glaucous blue-green foliage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP35055
    Abstract: A new and unique plant cultivar of perennial carnation or pinks, Dianthus plant named ‘Funky Fuchsia’ with numerous, large, fully-double, lightly-fragrant flowers producing a rounded full face of solid fuchsia-purple flowers. The flowers are held closely together and cover the top of clump on well-branched sterns having up to 4 flowers per stern beginning in early June and sporadically into fall. The plant is compact with long, thin, bluish-green foliage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP35063
    Abstract: The new and distinct hardy perennial plant, Heliopsis ‘Bit of Honey’, has dense, rounded, mound habit with extensively-branched, predominately strong upright stems that resist lodging. The foliage is narrowly ovate to broadly lanceolate with green surrounding the veins and near white between the veins. Inflorescences are in a capitulum with two or three whorls of golden-yellow, overlapping, ray florets and central disk florets of gold coloration. The new plant is freely flowering and begins blooming in early summer and continues for about six weeks. The new plant is useful in the landscape en masse, as an accent, in containers or as cut flowers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP35084
    Abstract: A new and unique plant cultivar of perennial carnation or pinks, Dianthus plant named ‘Red Rouge’ with numerous, single, lightly-sweet fragrant flowers producing a full rounded face. Each flower has five overlapping petals that are burgundy red with irregularly rosy-pink flecking and edges. The flowering season is strong for four weeks beginning in late spring and continues less densely to early fall. The habit is compact and dense with glaucous blue-green foliage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP35134
    Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Lone Star’ with large, broadly-mounded habit of heavy-substance, stiff, variegated foliage. Leaves are glaucous, ovate with coarsely, weakly undulate, yellowish-chartreuse margins, medium-green centers, and intermediate colors between. Flowers are pale lavender, held well out around foliage beginning in early July. The new plant is attractive for landscaping in the garden as a specimen, in mass and as a large container plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP35135
    Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Gigantosaurus’ with large, rounded-mound habit of heavy-substance, stiff, variegated foliage. Leaves are moderately glaucous, broadly ovate with coarsely, weakly-undulate, creamy-white margins, bluish-green centers and intermediate colors between. Flowers are light purple, held just above foliage beginning in late June. The new plant is attractive for landscaping in the garden as a specimen, in mass and as a large container plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP35141
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of Echinacea plant named ‘The Fuchsia is Bright’ with large fragrant inflorescences on strong, branched stems producing single whorls of bright fuchsia-pink colored, overlapping, ray florets on dark reddish stems. The large inflorescence produces ray florets that tend to stay nearly horizontal through maturity. The new plant 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: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP35153
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of Echinacea plant named ‘One in a Melon’ with very large fragrant inflorescences on strong, stiff stems producing single whorls of large, melon-colored, strongly-overlapping, ray florets. The large inflorescence produces ray florets that tend to stay nearly horizontal through maturity. The new plant 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: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP35161
    Abstract: A new and distinct Eucomis plant named ‘Purple Reign’ with rounded-mound habit of glossy, lanceolate, arching leaves emerging deep burgundy-colored and transitioning to olive green with burgundy tinting while flowering. Freely flowering beginning in mid-summer with individual racemes lasting for about four weeks, the plants produce racemes of medium height with densely arranged flowers of blush-pink upon opening and becoming deep mauve with maturity. ‘Purple Reign’ is winter-hardy to USDA zone 6 and useful as a specimen landscape plant, en masse, as a container plant or as a cut flower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP35170
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of winter-hardy, herbaceous, perennial, hybrid Hibiscus plant named ‘Valentine's Crush’ comprising an upright 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 highly-overlapping petals of bright-red with a slightly-shiny dark red shiny eye. The foliage is variably cleft to incised tri-lobed, and dark-green colored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP35175
    Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Dancing in the Moonlight’ producing medium-sized upright mounds of basal, lanceolate leaves with long, narrowly acute apices, cordate bases and intensely wavy margins and strongly folded along the midrib. The leaves are variegated having medium green centers and creamy-white margins with intermediate color separation between the margin and center of variably large segments of several shades of chartreuse. The medium-sized leaves have a matte and lightly glaucous upper surface and heavily glaucous underside. The campanulate flowers are very pale lavender beginning in mid-July. Each flower is attractively subtended by a floral bract with purplish margin making the scape showy for long periods. ‘Dancing in the Moonlight’ is useful in the landscape, as a container plant, a specimen or en masse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP35181
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of winter-hardy, herbaceous, perennial, hybrid Hibiscus plant named ‘Lilac Crush’ comprising flattened, rounded, compact, mound habit of multiple, well-branched, mostly upright stems producing flowers from the bottom to the top of the plant for at least eight weeks beginning mid-summer. Flowers have large petals of deep-lilac with a small, dark-red, shiny eye surrounded by a narrow rose-red zone and a large column displaying light yellow-colored pollen nearly the entire length. The foliage is primarily tri-lobed with medium to dark-green color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP35191
    Abstract: The new hybrid X Heucherella plant named ‘Copper King’ with slightly-cupped leaves at the petiole and flat margins, deeply incised into five to seven main lobes with each individual lobes irregularly incised. Foliage color starts in the spring as bright orange with reddish-copper in surrounding the veins, and the edges develop a yellowish-chartreuse and matures in the late fall to a medium-green with a mahogany pattern around the veins. ‘Copper King’ is vigorous and produces many airy panicles with numerous sterile creamy-white flowers in densely branched panicles beginning late spring and exhibits good heat and humidity tolerance. The plant is useful for landscaping as a specimen color, en masse, or as a container plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP35192
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental cultivar of Bee Balm Monarda plant named ‘Lavender Taffeta’ has medium-height, winter hardy, dense, vigorous clumping habit, dark green glossy foliage that exhibits strong resistance to powdery mildew, and numerous large flower heads of dark lavender-purple-colored flowers creating excellent flower coverage. The lower petals have darker strong purplish-red spots, and each flower head is subtended by burgundy-colored bracts. The new plant is attractive and useful in the garden landscape as a specimen, en masse, or as a container plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP35213
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental grass named Panicum virgatum ‘Red Flame’ with blue-green foliage that develops bright wine coloration in late summer on a large portion of the upper foliage, with upright and arching habit and dense culms producing airy panicles of burgundy, suitable as a multi-seasonal interest as a mass or specimen landscaping, potted plant, and for cut flower arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Martin Quinn
  • Patent number: PP35221
    Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Mouseketeer’ producing a small-sized upright mound of small leaves that are nearly rounded, lightly cupped, with rounded bases and rounded apices. The leaves are stiff, and smooth, with flat margins and heavy substance. Leaf color is dark green to slightly bluish-green on the wide margins and light yellow in the center with irregular small green flecks and varying shades of light green between the margin and center. The petioles are broad and display the green margin and light yellow center colors. ‘Mouseketeer’ is useful in the landscape, as a container plant, a specimen or en masse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP35222
    Abstract: A unique cultivar of Tall Phlox plant named ‘Sunset Coral’ characterized by vigorous, dense, upright, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with dark-green, lanceolate leaves. Flowering begins in late July and continuing for up to five weeks in cooler weather conditions, on heavily-branched peduncles, and completely cover the top of the plant in peak season. Petals are coral-pink with a tinge of orange, with the orange coloration more intense in cooler conditions. The new plant shows excellent powdery mildew resistance. The new plant is especially suitable for a cut flower, for the landscape as a potted plant and in the garden as a specimen or en masse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP35232
    Abstract: A new and distinct hybrid of Lungwort plant named Pulmonaria ‘Pink-a-Blue’ is characterized by prominent silver spotting on deep green foliage and large campanulate flowers open deep-pink and mature to medium blue on numerous inflorescences. The new plants show excellent vigor and good mildew resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen