Patents Assigned to Walters Gardens Inc.
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Publication number: 20210337713Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of perennial Salvia plant named ‘White Profusion’ characterized by pure, clean, white flowers beginning late spring and continuing through late summer if deadheaded with densely arranged in verticils with light green-colored calyces. The new plant has a compact habit with stiff, upright, heavily-branched stems with very strong tendency to repeat when deadheaded, a strong vigorous growth rate and rugose gray-green foliage. It is useful for landscaping specimens, en masse or as a container plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2019Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicant: Walters Gardens IncInventor: Hans A. Hansen
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Patent number: PP33276Abstract: A unique cultivar of Hybrid Creeping Phlox named ‘Pink Sparkles’ characterized by moderately-vigorous, dense, spreading, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with short, bright-green, shiny, linear leaves. Flowering begins in mid-spring and continuing for up to six weeks in cooler weather conditions, on heavily-branched peduncles and completely cover the plant in peak season. Petals are soft baby-pink with darker eye marks and a center than lightens with maturity. The petals have a medium deep 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: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33293Abstract: A new and unique plant cultivar of perennial carnation or pinks, Dianthus plant named ‘Paint the Town Red’ with numerous, single, lightly-spicy fragrant flowers producing a full rounded face. Each flower has five overlapping petals that are deep magenta-red colored without darker red bars in the center. Petals have moderately coarse dentate apices. Flowering season is strong for four weeks beginning in late spring and continues to mid-fall. The habit is compact and dense with glaucous blue-green foliage.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33295Abstract: A unique cultivar of Tall Phlox named ‘Opalescence’ 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 light pink with darker pink eye. The new plant is able to withstand dry conditions once established, and the foliage stays clean and resists mildew. 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: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33296Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Trendsetter’ of medium-sized, arching, long, ovate, medium-green leaves having wavy, yellow, jagged margins with numerous feathering intermediate colors and a narrowly acute curling apex. The flowers are pale lavender beginning in mid-June. ‘Trendsetter’ 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 27, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33297Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Tears in Heaven’ with an arching, rounded-mound habit of dense, cordate foliage of heavy glaucous bluish-colored above and whitish-blue below, retaining the glaucous covering until the end of summer. Long lanceolate leaves with sharply pointed apices and tapered base have intensely undulate margins and the lateral edges are folded upwardly veins with moderate dimpling between the veins and sinuate margins. The plant has pale lavender outer tepals with the tepals inside distinctly striped in the middle of the tepals with a darker lavender and white on the margins. The new plant is attractive and useful in landscaping as a specimen, in mass, or as a containerized plant by itself or in combination with other plants.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33309Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of winter-hardy, herbaceous, perennial, hybrid Hibiscus plant named ‘Spinderella’ comprising a compact, dense, mounded habit of multiple, well-branched, basal stems producing flowers from the bottom to the top of the plant from late July to frost. Flowers have petals that are broadly-overlapping, with deeply impressed veins of white radiating through the center that intensifies to a medium pink on the leading edge. The foliage is simple and ovate, with a crenulate margin and deep-green with greyed-purple blotches.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2021Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33310Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental, hardy, Russian Sage plant, Perovskia ‘Sage Advice’ with short, dense habit of strong erect stems that remain upright through the growing season. The new plant is vigorous with many large, densely-arranged, rich lavender-purple flowers on branched stems. Foliage is silvery-green, dissected, fragrant and is retained well throughout the growing season.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33314Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.Inventor: Chris Meyer
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Patent number: PP33315Abstract: A unique cultivar of Hybrid Creeping Phlox named ‘Rose Quartz’ characterized by vigorous, dense, spreading, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with short, bright-green, shiny, linear leaves. Small flowers begin in mid-spring and continuing for up to six weeks in cooler weather conditions, on heavily-branched peduncles and completely cover the plant in peak season. Petals are rose-pink with a lighter center and a moderate 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: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33317Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Wind beneath My Wings’ with large rounded-mound habit of dense, lanceolate foliage of heavy glaucous bluish-colored above and whitish-blue below, retaining the glaucous covering until the end of summer. Long lanceolate leaves with sharply pointed apices and cordate base have undulate margins and the slightly impressed veins with moderate dimpling between the veins and sinuate margins. The plant has flowers in August with pale lavender outer tepals with the tepals inside distinctly striped in the middle of the tepals with a darker lavender and white on the margins. The new plant is attractive and useful in landscaping as a specimen, in mass, or as a containerized plant by itself or in combination with other plants.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33318Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Drop-dead Gorgeous’ of very large, arching, long, ovate, green leaves having wavy yellow margins. The flowers are white with light lavender veins and blushing. Prior to flower bud opening, the floral bracts produce a broad, short, light lavender, water-lily effect of compact lanceolate bracts. ‘Drop-dead Gorgeous’ has excellent very large mounded habit and is useful in the landscape, as a specimen or en masse.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33366Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33367Abstract: The new and distinct hardy perennial plant, Origanum ‘Drops of Jupiter’, has dense, rounded, habit with mostly upright to slightly outwardly stems. The foliage is ovate, and chartreuse-yellow and resists burning when planted in full sun. Flowering begins in early summer and continues to early fall or frost with mauve-pink petal colors with persistent purple calyces. The new plant is attractive and useful in the landscape en masse, as an accent, or in containers.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33487Abstract: A new and unique cultivar of garden Phlox named Phlox ‘Baby Doll White’ multiple-branched, multi-stemmed, short, dense, upright, slowly-spreading habit with clean, glossy, medium-green, lanceolate leaves with exceptiond powdery mildew resistance. Foliage is thick with stiff sterns. Flowers are white initially with pale-lavender blush and small, pale-lavender throat and pale-purple corolla tube produced on branched peduncles and nearly cover the top of the plant beginning early June for about four weeks, about two weeks prior to typical Phlox paniculata cultivars known to the inventor, and repeating for about six weeks. ‘Baby Doll White’ is especially suitable as a potted plant, for the garden, for attracting hummingbirds and butterflies, and for cut flower arrangements.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33489Abstract: A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Wavecrest’ characterized by a compact mound of lanceolate, variegated, coarsely sinuate, folded to concaved foliage. The foliage center is bluish-green and the marginal variegation is variable between yellowish and light chartreuse with a darker chartreuse intermediate zone. Marginal and apical spines are soft and flexible. Leaves develop small, irregular, greyed-purple spots with strong ultra violet light. The new plants is suitable for the garden landscape or as a potted plant in the garden or around the home.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2021Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33498Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of winter-hardy, herbaceous, perennial, hybrid Hibiscus plant named ‘Blackberry Merlot’ comprising a compact, upright, mounded habit of multiple, well-branched, basal stems producing flowers beginning in late July for at least eight weeks. Flowers have overlapping, moderately-rippled petals of deep velvety red with dark reddish shiny eye, with the leading margin occasionally folded underneath giving flowers extra strength and resistance to wind damage. The flower buds are dark, purplish gray. The foliage is primarily three-lobed, and rich olive-green with mahogany coloration when young.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2021Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33582Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of Echinacea plant named ‘Frankly Scarlet’, with fragrant inflorescences on strong well-branched stems above dark green foliage. The inflorescences produce single whorls of broadly-overlapping, long, broad, scarlet-orange, ray florets that lighten with maturity to coral-orange. The new plant is vigorous and produces a compact habit and flowers from mid-summer to fall frost. The new plant is attractive and suitable as a potted plant, fur the landscape, and for cut flower arrangements.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2021Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, Inc.Inventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33607Abstract: A unique cultivar of Tall Phlox named ‘Ultraviolet’ characterized by vigorous, tall, dense, upright, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with dark-green, lanceolate leaves. Flowering on large heavily branched panicles begins in late-July and continues for up to five weeks completely covering the top of the plant in peak season. Petals are dark magenta-violet with a deep magenta eye. The new plant shows good 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: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
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Patent number: PP33612Abstract: A new and distinct Aster plant named ‘Grape Crush’, with heavily-branched, very rounded mound habit, dark green, lanceolate foliage and large semi-double inflorescences with numerous, overlapping, dark purple florets beginning in late August 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: GrantFiled: February 23, 2021Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Walters Gardens, IncInventor: Hans A Hansen
