Bobolink Nursery
N6548 429th St Menomonie, WI 54751 Ph. 715-231-3901
Hours of operation: Monday-Saturday 9am-7pm, Sundays 11am-5pm
Perennials A-D
Moonshine Yarrow Achillea 'Moonshine'
Bugleweed Ajuga reptans 'Burgundy Glow'
Bugleweed Ajuga reptans 'Black Scallop'
Azure monkshood Aconitum fischeri
Height: 24"
Spread: 18-24"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-8
This hybrid is one of the most popular yarrows in American landscapes. It has beautiful, deeply cut, silver-gray foliage and sulfur-yellow flowers that appear in June and continue until September.
Height: 6"
Spread: 10-12"
Exposure: Full-Part Sun
Zone: 3-10
Fantastic tricolored foliage in shades of creamy-white, rose-burgundy, and dark green make this ajuga different than all the others.
Height: 3"
Spread: Groundcover
Exposure: Full- Part Sun
Zone: 4-10
An exciting black ajuga with beautiful glossy leaves; blue flowers in spring.
Height:18-24 Inches
Spread:12-18 Inches
Exposure:Full Sun-Full Shade
Zone:4-8
A. fischeri sends up striking upright spikes of lavender-blue flowers from late summer to early fall when few other blue flowers are in bloom. Each individual flower is shaped like a little helmet or hood.
Hollyhock Alcea rosea Chater's Double Hybrids
Hollyhock Alcea rosea 'Black Knight'
Height:4-6'
Spread: 2'
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 2-7
Perfect for the cottage garden, Chater's Double Hybrids-Mixed is a mixed seed strain of hollyhocks that includes an array of colors including pink, apricot, violet, purple, scarlet, white, and yellow.
Height:5-6'
Spread: 2'
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-9
Deep black-purple, single flowers are produced on tall, sturdy stalks in midsummer.
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
September Charm Japanese Anemone
Anemone x hybrida 'September Charm'
Windflower Pulsatilla vulgaris 'Rote Glocke'
Windflower Anemone Prince Henry
Pasqueflower Anemone pulsatilla vulgaris
Hollyhock Alcea rosea 'Sunshine'
Hollyhock Alcea rosea 'Mars Magic'
Height: 2-3'
Spread: 2-3'
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-8
Graceful, tall branching flower stalks bear large clear-pink flowers with golden yellow centers. Blooms generously from late summer to fall. Use in borders and as cut flowers.
Height: 6-12"
Spread: 6-8"
Exposure: Full-Part Sun
Zone: 4-7
‘Rote Glocke’ is a vigorous cultivar that features bright crimson red flowers with yellow center stamens. Hairy flower stems emerge from the ground in spring.
Height: 18"
Spread: 20"
Exposure: Full-Part Sun
Zone: 4-8
From late summer to fall, there is no flower quite like it in the border. Deep rose-pink double flowers with star shaped petals. Shorter than most.
Height: 12-15"
Spread: 12"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-10
It bears its enormous blossoms on short stems, and the entire plant is covered in long, silvery, silky hairs that make the plant look iridescent when the sunlight catches it just so. .
Height: 5-6'
Spread: 2'
Exposure: FullSun
Zone: 3-9
Bright yellow, single flowers are produced on tall, sturdy stalks in midsummer.
Height: 5-6'
Spread: 2'
Exposure: FullSun
Zone: 3-9
Bright red, single flowers are produced on tall, sturdy stalks in midsummer.
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
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Silver Mound Artemisia Artemisia schmidtiana 'Nana'
Columbine Aquilegia 'Spitfire'
Golden Japanese Spikenard
Aralia cordata 'Sun King'
Columbine Aquilegia vulgaris 'Clementine Red'
Columbine Aquilegia vulgaris ‘Clementine Dark Purple’
Golden Marguerite Anthemis tinctoria 'Charme'
Height: 12"
Spread: 15-24"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-9
Low growing mound shaped plant with silvery-gray soft foliage. Good for rock gardens or edging. Take your kids out to the garden and let them touch the plant.
Height: 12-16"
Spread: 12-18"
Exposure: Full-Part Sun
Zone: 3-9
This petite hybrid produces small, red-orange flowers with a bright yellow center and short spurs. They dangle from 12-16 inch tall scapes from May to June.
Height: 3'
Spread: 3'
Exposure: Part Shade
Zone: 3-9
An excellent complement to hostas and woodland perennials, ‘Sun King’ emerges mid-spring with bright gold leaves held on nicely contrasting reddish brown stems.
Height: 12-18"
Spread: 10-12"
Exposure: Full-Part Sun
Zone: 3-9
Red Flowers.
Height: 12-18"
Spread: 10-12"
Exposure: Full-Part Sun
Zone: 3-9
A unique series of Columbine, featuring fluffy double flowers that resemble a small Clematis bloom, held upfacing on stems, well above the lacy green foliage mound. This selection produces blooms in shades of rich deep purple with a yellow center.
Height: 12-16"
Spread: 8-12"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-7
Charming, 1 inch wide, bright yellow flowers appear in late spring and continue through early summer. The finely cut, feathery foliage forms a tight, symmetrical mound that is attractive even when the plant is not in bloom.
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Height: 12"
Spread: 12-18"
Exposure: Part Sun
Zone: 3-8
Dwarf plant with attractive, finely cut foliage and delicate sprays of pure white flowers in early to midsummer. A very tough and long lived plant for shady moist, humusy soil.
Height: 18"
Spread: 36"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-8
This cultivar forms a beautiful solid purple mound 18" tall and 36" wide. The flowers are semi double, 1.5" wide, and cover the plant in early fall. The compact habit of this variety makes it a standout in the fall garden.
Height: 18-24"
Spread: 18-24"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-9
Native prairie wildflower. Fragrant orange flowers from mid to late summer. Monarch butterfly food. Tap rooted and drought tolerant.
Height: 12-16"
Spread: 9-12"
Exposure: Full-Part Sun
Zone: 3-8
Just as the colors of summer start to fade, Aster 'Alert' ignites with densely packed clusters of deep purplish-red flowers.
Height: 3-5'
Spread: 1-3'
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-9
A virtually hassle-free perennial, offering three months of vanilla scented, rose pink flowers in large, compact clusters from midsummer to early fall.
Height: 2'
Spread: 2'
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-9
A virtually hassle-free perennial, this cultivar of our native A. tuberosa offers three months of golden yellow blooms from early through late summer.
Purple Dome Aster Aster novae-angliae 'Purple Dome'
Aster 'Alert' Aster novi-belgii 'Alert'
Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata 'Cinderella'
Butterfly Flower Asclepias tuberosa
Butterfly Weed
Asclepias tuberosa 'Hello Yellow'
Dwarf Goatsbeard Aruncus aethusifolius
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Astilbe chinensis 'Maggie Daley'
Astilbe 'Lollypop'
Astilbe 'Glow'
Astilbe 'Deutschland'
Wood's Pink Aster
Aster divaricatus 'Wood's Pink'
Wood's Blue Aster
Aster divaricatus 'Wood's Blue'
Height: 28"
Spread: 16-20"
Exposure: Full Sun- Full Shade
Zone: 4-9
A later blooming species useful for extending the bloom season into late summer. Foliage is deeply incised, coarsely textured, and often bronze-green in color. Flowers are borne on narrow, branched panicles.
Height: 24-30"
Spread: 18-24"
Exposure: Full Sun- Full Shade
Zone: 4-9
Pure white, open, lacy plumes. Blooms in early summer. Bold, glossy, deep green foliage
Height: 18"
Spread: 15-18"
Exposure: Full Sun- Full Shade
Zone: 4-8
Pink buds opening to light pink flowers on dark stems over deep green, glossy foliage.
Height: 30"
Spread: 15-18"
Exposure: Full Sun- Full Shade
Zone: 4-8
Beautiful red flowers atop dark red leaves. Great for a statement plant in the background of your flower bed.
Height: 8-16"
Spread: 14-24"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-9
Clear pink single flowers from August through October make this a great addition to the autumn perennial garden.
Height: 8-12"
Spread: 12-18"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-9
Single, clear medium blue flowers with gold centers appear in August and bloom through October.
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Jack Frost Siberian Bugloss
Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost' PP13,859
Heartleaf Bergenia
Bergenia cordifolia 'Winter Glow'
Blackberry Lily Belamcanda chinensis 'Freckle Face'
Twilite Prairieblues™ False Indigo
Baptisia x variicolor 'Twilite' PP19,011
False Indigo Baptisia australis
Vision in Red Astilbe
Astilbe chinensis 'Vision in Red' PP11,965
Height: 18-24"
Spread: 8-12"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-8
This unique perennial produces a profusion of two inch wide, brilliant orange blossoms with heavy red specking and shading on each of the six overlapping petals. They are produced atop mid-sized plants with green, sword-shaped foliage like that of a tall bearded iris.
Height: 12"
Spread: 12-18"
Exposure: Part Sun
Zone: 3-8
Excellent border plant with large, thick, heart-shaped glossy leaves. Leaves turn bronze-green in cold weather. Large clusters of pink flowers in May.
Height: 12-15"
Spread: 12-18"
Exposure: Partial Shade
Zone: 4-8
The leaves of this beautiful new cultivar are silver with green venation all season long. It blooms in early spring with classic forget-me-not type blue flowers. Best in shady situations, mixed with hostas, astilbe and other shade lovers.
Height: 3-5'
Spread: 4-5'
Foliage: Blue-green
Exposure: Full Sun to Part Shade
Zone: 4-8
A robust and vigorous bicolor baptisia with handsome, blue-green foliage, covered with deep violet-purple flowers highlighted by lemon-yellow keels.
Height: 3'
Spread: 3-4'
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-9
Violet-blue lupine-like flowers in late spring. Attractive blue-green foliage all season. Dependable, long lived plant for the back of the garden. Tolerates a wide range of soil types including very dry ones.
Height: 15-18"
Spread: 15-20"
Exposure: Full Sun- Full Shade
Zone: 4-9
This addition to the Vision series line sports pink-red flowers that open from purple buds over glossy bronze-green foliage that looks good all season long.
Coreopsis verticillata 'Sunbeam'
Hillside Black Beauty Black Snakeroot
Cimicifuga racemosa 'Hillside Black Beauty' PP9,988
Turtlehead Chelone lyonii 'Hot Lips'
Bellflower Campanula 'Dickson's Gold'
White Clips Bellflower
Campanula carpatica 'White Clips'
Blue Clips Bellflower
Campanula carpatica 'Blue Clips'
Height: 18-24"
Spread: 24-30"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-9
A sport of the ever-popular 'Moonbeam' with golden yellow flowers and unique deep green, threadleaf foliage that is brushed with silvery grey.
Height: 4-6"
Spread: 8-10"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 3-8
Striking bright gold, toothed leaves form a compact clump; color is lime green if grown in part shade.
Height: 4-7'
Spread: 3-4'
Exposure: Shade
Zone: 4-8
The beautiful, lacy foliage of 'Hillside Black Beauty' emerges in early spring with green tones, but quickly deepens to purplish-black. The dark foliage contrasts nicely with the fragrant, white, bottlebrush blooms in late summer.
Height: 36-40"
Spread: 24-30"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 3-8
Deep green foliage and rosy, lipstick-colored flowers on dark red stems. Provide adequate moisture. Blooms July through September.
Height: 6-9"
Spread: 8-10"
Exposure: Full Sun to Part Shade
Zone: 3-9
Compact plant grows 6-9" with white flowers in summer. Light green leaves.
Height: 8-10"
Spread: 8-10"
Exposure: Full Sun to Part Shade
Zone: 3-9
Sky blue bellflowers on a compact plant. Blooms from June to October and is excellent in a perennial border.
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Height: 7"
Spread: 7"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 4-9
Large, red flowers with raisin-red centers have a velvety appearance which is highlighted by subtle wisps of soft pink along the edges.
Height: 8"
Spread: 12"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 4-9
This colorful double selection produces fragrant, bright pink, ruffled flowers with magenta markings around the center and edge of the petals.
Height: 12"
Spread: 12"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 4-7
The flowers open deep red with large white blotches in the center of each petal. As the flowers mature, the white blotches expand and the red color lightens, leaving a wine colored ring around each petal.
Height: 4-5'
Spread: 18-24"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 3-7
'Purple Passion' sports intense, deep purple blossoms with a purple and white striped bee.
Height: 12-15"
Spread: 12-15"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-10
Starry sparkling golden blooms atop threadleaf foliage from July until frost. Upright grower.
Height: 3-5'
Spread: 18-24"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 3-7
Likely the deepest pink delphinium available today, 'Pink Punch' bears strong, broad spikes of rich mulberry pink, often frilled flowers with a white, brown, or pink striped bee.
Height: 30-36"
Spread: 18-24"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 3-7
This petite new seed strain measures in at just 2½-3’ tall in full bloom. Half of this height is comprised of stout flower spikes! Stunning sky blue flowers with the slightest hint of pink have perfectly contrasting dark bees.
Height: 30-36"
Spread: 24-30"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-9
'Redshift' blooms from midsummer into early fall, producing large 2 inch diameter, creamy yellow flowers with a rich red ring around the gold button-like center.
Height: 6-8"
Spread: 6-8"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-9
This award winning coreopsis has the unique combination of a dwarf habit and large flowers. It looks fabulous in containers and also works well as a bedding plant or as edging.
Pinks Dianthus Eastern Star
Pinks Dianthus 'Dragon Fruit' PP21894
Pinks Dianthus 'Coconut Punch' PP21876
Delphinium elatum 'Purple Passion'
Delphinium elatum 'Pink Punch'
Delphinium elatum 'Moonlight Blues'
Zagreb Coreopsis
Coreopsis verticillata 'Zagreb'
Tickseed Coreopsis 'Redshift' PP20412
Tickseed Coreopsis grandiflora 'Presto'
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Height: 7"
Spread: 12"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 4-7
Overlapping petals of magenta purple with plum rings around the centers describe the outstanding flowers of D. 'Shooting Star'. Even more wonderful, they exude the spicy scent of cloves.
Height: 8-10"
Spread: 12"
Exposure: Full Sun- Full Shade
Zone: 4-7
This steady performer has everything you could want in a fern-leaved bleeding heart: astonishing vigor, sun and heat tolerance, bright rose heart-shaped flowers that appear from late spring into fall, and lacy, soft blue-green foliage.
Height: 12"
Spread: 12"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 3-9
Cool pink, lightly fragrant blooms stand high above mounds of icy blue, evergreen foliage.
Height: 8"
Spread: 8"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 4-7
Vivid fire red flowers have a deeper crimson eye, making this a "saturated red bicolor".
Bleeding Heart Dicentra 'King of Hearts'
Pinks Dianthus Shooting Star
Pinks Dianthus 'Mountain Mist'
Pinks Dianthus Fire Star
Pinks Dianthus 'Spangled Star'
Bleeding Heart Dicentra 'Burning Hearts'
Height: 7"
Spread: 7"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 4-7
An intricate pattern of red and pink is embroidered upon these unique flowers. Petals are scarlet red accented by pale pink serrated edges, throats, and blotches.
Height: 10-12"
Spread: 12"
Exposure: Full Sun- Full Shade
Zone: 3-7
This plant forms a compact mound of foliage topped with arched flowering stems from late spring into early fall.
Height: 10-12"
Spread: 12"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 3-7
Totally unlike the tall, spiky Delphinium cultivars, this little beauty stands at a height of 10"-12" and forms compact mounds of well-branched foliage.
Delphinium grandiflorum 'Summer Nights'
Delphinium elatum 'Black Eyed Angels'
Height:3-5'
Spread: 18-24"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 3-7
Aptly named, this Delphinium produces tall spires of frilly white flowers with black bees.
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Bachelor's Button Centaurea montana
Height: 24"
Spread: 24-30"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-8
Blue feathery flowers for some six weeks in early summer with some rebloom in late summer.
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Bellflower Campanula persicifolia 'La Belle'
Bellflower-Clustered
Campanula glomerata 'Freya'
Height: 24"
Spread: 12-18"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 3-8
Tall, upright stems bear loose racemes of small, double, deep blue flowers with a silver gloss
Height: 16"
Spread: 12"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 3-8
The knee-high clump of sturdy, green foliage is comprised of compact, clump forming rosettes.
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Blackberry Lily
Belamcanda chinensis 'Hello Yellow'
Height: 18-24"
Spread: 8-12"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-10
A profusion of bright yellow, star-shaped flowers are produced above a compact clump of green, sword-shaped foliage.
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Astilbe chinensis 'Vision in White'
Height: 24"
Spread: 18"
Exposure: Full Sun- Full Shade
Zone: 4-9
A robust growing selection which produces loads of large, creamy white, triangular plumes in midsummer.
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Fanal Astilbe
Astilbe x arendsii 'Fanal'
Height: 24-30"
Spread: 18-24"
Exposure: Full Sun- Full Shade
Zone: 4-9
Brilliant carmine-red flowers in June and July borne on spikes. Foliage is dark red-green.
Thrift Armeria maritima 'Bloodstone'
Height: 8-10"
Spread: 12-18"
Exposure: Full-Part Sun
Zone: 3-8
Bright purplish-pink, ball-shaped flower clusters are produced on thin, leafless stalks held high above the tight mounds of evergreen, grassy green foliage.
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Foxglove Digitalis purpurea 'Dalmatian Purple'
Foxglove Digitalis purpurea 'Dalmatian White'
White Bleeding Heart
Dicentra spectabilis 'Alba'
Bleeding Heart
Dicentra spectabilis 'Gold Heart'
Bleeding Heart
Dicentra spectabilis
Height: 24-30"
Spread: 24-36"
Exposure: Part Sun- Full Shade
Zone: 3-9
White, heart-shaped flowers from May to June.
Height: 2-3'
Spread: 12"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 4-9
Bright white flowers with speckled maroon throats are produced all the way around the stems in early summer.
Height: 2-3'
Spread: 12"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 4-9
Deep lavender purple flowers with heavily spotted maroon throats are produced all the way around the stems in early summer.
Height: 24-30"
Spread: 24-36"
Foliage: Yellow
Exposure: Part Sun to Full Shade
Zone: 3-9
A fast-growing perennial with rose pink, heart-shaped flowers and golden foliage. Blooms contrast wonderfully against its bright foliage adding sunshine to a shady border
Height: 24-30"
Spread: 24-36"
Exposure: Part Sun
Zone: 3-9
A garden favorite for years with long racemes of heart-shaped pink flowers. Blooms from mid-spring to June. Moist, well-drained soil. Foliage dies back in midsummer, so mix with hostas, astilbes and ferns.
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
