Patents Assigned to Walters Gardens Inc.
  • Patent number: PP33844
    Abstract: The new and distinct plant of Buddleia ‘Lilac Cascade’ is a rounded-mounded, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy butterfly bush with very long, narrow, outwardly drooping flowering thyrse producing a waterfall effect over a long season beginning mid-summer with sweetly-fragrant flowers of pale lilac petals that are attractively offset by dark green foliage with silvery undersides. No seed has been observed since development. The new plant is valuable for landscaping en masse, as an accent or as a potted specimen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP33851
    Abstract: The new Shasta daisy plant, Leucanthemum ‘Banana Cream II’, is a sturdy plant with dark-green serrated foliage and stiff stems. The numerous freely-flowering inflorescences producing two to three rows of ray florets starting light yellow and developing to creamy-colored. The center disk florets are golden yellow. Flowering repeats into fall if deadheaded. The new plant is useful in the landscape as a long-flowering border, in mass, as accent plants and containerized for patio or indoor use, or as a cut flower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP33875
    Abstract: The new hybrid plant of Clematis ‘Rain Dance’ of compact, medium height, upright, non-vining habit with combined ovate and trifoliate leaves and dark purple buds producing nodding flowers with typically four reflexed tepals of indigo-blue beginning late May and reblooming through late summer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP33878
    Abstract: The new Shasta daisy plant, Leucanthemum ‘Marshmallow’, is a sturdy plant with green serrated foliage and stiff stems. The numerous freely-flowering inflorescences producing buds beginning with light yellow ray florets developing to near white. The outer ray florets are lanceolate to linear and emarginate and the inner ray florets are mostly laciniate and retain their yellow coloration longer. The center disk florets are yellow. Flowering repeats into fall if deadheaded. The new plant is useful in the landscape as a long-flowering border, in mass, as accent plants and containerized for patio or indoor use, or as a cut flower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP33958
    Abstract: A new and distinct ornamental perennial Sedum plant named ‘Coraljade’ is characterized by tight-forming upright mounds of vertical stems with dark-green glaucous foliage that resists powdery mildew and subsequent scaring. The numerous, stems are highly branched and resist lodging in summer heat and rains. Individual flowers of coral-pink effect completely cover the top of the plant. The new plant is useful for the landscape in containers, as specimens or en masse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP33985
    Abstract: A new and unique x Mangave plant named ‘Dragon Lady’ characterized by a compact, rounded mound of fleshy, linear to lanceolate, leaves that are wavy, twisted, slightly-arching and terminate in a flexible apical spine. The leaves have numerous small, flexible marginal teeth pointing outwardly. Foliage is variegated with the leaf centers becoming creamy-yellow with cherry-red spots. The new plant is suitable for the garden or as a potted plant in the garden or home.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP34053
    Abstract: The new Shasta daisy plant, Leucanthemum ‘Ice Cream Dream’, is a sturdy plant with green serrated foliage and stiff stems. The numerous freely-flowering inflorescences producing buds beginning with intense yellow ray florets developing to near white in the perimeter. The outer ray florets are lanceolate to linear and emarginate to cleft and the inner ray florets are mostly cleft and retain their yellow coloration longer. The center disk florets are yellow. Flowering repeats into fall if deadheaded. The new plant is useful in the landscape as a long-flowering border, in mass, as accent plants and containerized for patio or indoor use, or as a cut flower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP34101
    Abstract: A new and unique hybrid cultivar of Phlox plant named Phlox ‘Opening Act Romance’ multi-stemmed, medium height, upright, 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 rich lavender-pink flowers with a white halo in the center, produced on branched peduncles and nearly cover the top of the plant beginning early summer, about two weeks prior to typical Phlox paniculata cultivars, known to the Inventor continuing for about five weeks and reblooming through late summer. ‘Opening Act Romance’ is especially suitable as a potted plant, for the garden, for attracting hummingbirds and butterflies, and for cut flower arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP34110
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental cultivar of hybrid ornamental Bee Balm plant named Monarda ‘Electric Neon Coral’ with deep-green, moderately-glossy, powdery mildew-tolerant foliage, flower heads of light coral-pink flowers from darker reddish-purple buds. The lower petal has darker reddish-purple spots on the inner surface. The bracts subtending inflorescences have deep reddish and wine coloration. The plant habit is compact and winter-hardy, useful in the landscape as a specimen, en masse, or as a containerized plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP34130
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental cultivar of hybrid ornamental Bee Balm plant named Monarda ‘Leading Lady Razzberry’ with deep-green, moderately-glossy, powdery mildew-tolerant foliage, dense flower heads nearly completely covering the plant in peak bloom with bright, raspberry-purple flowers with darker purplish-red spots. The plant habit is short, compact and winter-hardy, making the new plant useful in the landscape as a specimen, en masse, or as a containerized plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP34131
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental cultivar of bee balm plant named Monarda didyma ‘Pardon My Lavender II’ has short, compact, basally branching stems, medium to dark green foliage with numerous large, lavender-pink colored flowers creating excellent flower coverage and strong foliar resistance to powdery mildew.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP34197
    Abstract: The new Shasta daisy plant, Leucanthemum ‘Spun Silk’, is a sturdy plant with dark-green serrated foliage and stiff stems. The numerous freely-flowering inflorescences producing buds beginning with pale cream ray florets developing to near white. The outer ray florets are lanceolate to linear and deeply emarginate and the center disk florets are yellow. Flowering repeats into fall if deadheaded. The new plant is useful in the landscape as a long-flowering border, in mass, as accent plants and containerized for patio or indoor use, or as a cut flower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP34202
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of Echinacea plant named ‘Tanager’ with fragrant inflorescences on strong, dark, branched stems producing single whorls of rich tangerine-orange ray florets. The large inflorescence produces ray florets that tend to stay nearly horizontal through maturity. The cones on the new plant are dark wine-colored. 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: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP34205
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental cultivar of hybrid ornamental Bee Balm plant named Monarda ‘Leading Lady Pink’ with deep-green, moderately-glossy, powdery mildew-tolerant foliage, dense flower heads of bright-pink flowers with lighter interiors effectively showing off the darker purplish-red spots. The plant habit is compact and winter-hardy, useful in the landscape as a specimen, en masse, or as a containerized plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP34223
    Abstract: A unique cultivar of Hybrid Creeping Phlox named ‘Ruby Riot’ characterized by vigorous, dense, spreading, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with short, bright-green, shiny, linear leaves. Flowering begins in late-April and continuing for up to five weeks in cooler weather conditions, on heavily-branched peduncles and completely cover the plant in peak season. Petals are reddish-purple to purplish-red with darker eye marks and a small notch and the tips of the petals. 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: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP34224
    Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Love Story’ producing medium-sized low mounds of basal, broadly lanceolate, leaves with long narrowly acute apices, cordate bases and slightly wavy margins. The leaves are variegated having dark green margins and pale-yellow centers 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 upper surface and glaucous underside. The campanulate flowers are pale lavender with white edges appearing beginning in mid-June. Each flower is attractively subtended by a floral bract that mimic the leaf variegation making the scape showy for long periods. ‘Love Story’ is useful in the landscape, as a container plant, a specimen or en masse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP34225
    Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Silver Bullet’ producing small-sized rounded mounds of dense, basal, cordate to nearly rounded, flat, leaves with broadly acute to rounded apices, cordate bases and slightly impressed veins. The leaves are highly-glaucous intense bluish-green and hold their color through the season. The campanulate flowers are pale lavender striped opening just above the foliage beginning in early July for about two weeks. ‘Silver Bullet’ is useful in the landscape, as a container plant, a specimen or en masse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP34229
    Abstract: A new and unique Agave plant named ‘Dressed to Impress’ characterized by low mounded plant habit of long, linear, mostly-flat, variegated leaves having very wide creamy-yellow margins with medium-green centers with an intermediate greenish yellow in between the margin variegation and center. The leaves have arch distally with maturity and have semi-flexible, sharp medium-sized marginal teeth and long, stiff apical spines and show occasional imprints from marginal spies of leaves above or below. The plant is useful in the landscape as a specimen, en masse, or also in a container in the home or landscape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP34255
    Abstract: A new and unique x Mangave plant named ‘Sweet Tooth’ characterized by a compact, rounded mound of thick, fleshy, lanceolate, glaucous, sarcous leaves that are mostly flat, slightly-arching and terminate in a large, firm, apical spine. The leaves have numerous large, slightly flexible, marginal teeth curving toward base. Foliage is variegated with dark green margins and the leaf centers becoming striated with grey and celadon. The new plant is suitable for the garden or as a potted plant in the garden or home.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP34269
    Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Wild Imagination’ with medium-sized, rounded-mound habit of glaucous, bluish-green, long thin foliage. Leaves have are twisted distally and very wavy margins. The plant produces light purple flared campanulate flowers on numerous upright scapes well above the foliage beginning in late July and continuing for about five weeks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen