Bobolink Nursery
N6548 429th St Menomonie, WI 54751 Ph. 715-231-3901
Hours of operation: Monday-Saturday 9am-7pm, Sundays 11am-5pm
Perennials P-Z
Spurge-Japanese
Pachysandra terminalis
Peony Paeonia 'Duchesse de Nemours'
Peony Paeonia x 'Buckeye Belle'
Peony Paeonia x 'Bowl of Beauty'
Height: 6-12"
Spread: 12-24"
Exposure: Part Shade- Shade
Zone: 4-9
Pachysandra has long been a favorite groundcover for the shade. It is prized for its clean, evergreen foliage and speed of colonization once established.
Height: 3'
Spread: 2.5-3'
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-7
Large, creamy white, double flowers with soft yellow central petals deepening to pale green. Sweetly scented, great for cutting.
Height: 12-18"
Spread: 2-3'
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-8
Semi-double, velvety, dark red blooms are held on sturdy stems that make them fine as cut flowers.
Height:18-24"
Spread:2-3'
Exposure:Full Sun
Zone:4-8
Fuchsia pink petals create a bowl around the pale lemon yellow center.
Peony Paeonia 'Kansas'
Peony Paeonia 'Felix Crousse'
Height: 3'
Spread: 2.5-3'
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-7
Double red flowers that are non-fading.
Height: 2.5'
Spread: 2.5-3'
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-7
Large, double, fragrant, 5-7", deep raspberry-red flowers are produced abundantly in mid to late season over dark green, thick and glossy foliage.
Poppy Papaver oriental 'Prince of Orange'
Poppy Papaver oriental 'Patty's Plum'
Poppy Papaver oriental 'Casino'
Tree Peony
Paeonia suffruticosa 'Shimadaijin'
Peony-Tree
Paeonia suffruticosa 'Kinkaku' ('Golden Temple of Nara')
Peony Paeonia 'Sarah Bernhardt'
Height: 30"
Spread: 18-24"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Sun
Zone: 3-7
Huge blossoms the color of tangerines are borne on wiry, pubescent stems from late spring thru early summer.
Height: 32"
Spread: 15-18"
Exposure: Full-Part Sun
Zone: 3-8
Very dark reddish-purple with black basal spots
Height: 14-16"
Spread: 12"
Exposure: Full-Part Sun
Zone: 3-8
Very hairy basal leaves with huge crepe paper-like flowers on tall stems.
Height: 4-5'
Spread: 3'
Exposure: FullSun
Zone: 4-7
Reddish/Purple/Maroon blend which just glows in the garden. One of the brightest colors of all tree peonies.
Height: 4-5'
Spread: 3'
Exposure: FullSun
Zone: 4-7
Tree peonies differ from garden peonies in that they have woody stems like a shrub. The branches do not die back to the ground in winter as do the herbaceous varieties.
Height: 3'+
Spread: 2.5-3'
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-7
A classic favorite, with beautiful double pink flowers that are slightly paler at the edge of the petal giving it a silvery tip look.
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Phlox paniculata 'Pixie Miracle Grace'
Phlox paniculata 'David'
Phlox paniculata 'Laura'
Phlox paniculata 'Blue Paradise'
Russian Sage Perovskia 'Little Spire'
Beardtongue Penstemon 'Elfin Pink'
Height: 15-20"
Spread: 15"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-8
An improved form of Tall Garden Phlox that boasts a compact habit, increased mildew resistance, and a very long bloom time.
Height: 42"
Spread: 24-36"
Exposure: Full-Part Sun
Zone: 4-8
Enormous heads of fragrant, white flowers from mid to late summer.
Height: 24-30"
Spread: 18-24"
Exposure: Full Sun-Part Shade
Zone: 4-8
Masses of fuschia-purple blossoms with starry, white centers and dark eyes all summer long. This selection has a particularly long bloom time and has demonstrated very good mildew resistance.
Height: 40"
Spread: 24-30"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-8
Lavender blue blossoms with a white center and a tiny red eye are produced from mid thru late summer. Their delicious fragrance attracts hummingbirds and butterflies.
Height: 25"
Spread: 18-24"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-9
This dwarf Russian sage has lavender-blue flowers and silvery foliage. Selected for its upright habit that prevents it from leaning in the landscape. Starts blooming in late summer and continues through autumn.
Height: 12"
Spread: 8-12"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-8
The tubular, clear pink flowers bloom in late spring to midsummer. The flowers are 1-2" long, with one stamen often bearded, hence the name "beardtongue".
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Height: 36"
Spread: 24-36"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-8
Panicles of deliciously perfumed, cherry red blossoms contrast sharply against the deep green foliage from mid thru late summer.
Height: 8-10"
Spread: 6-8"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Sun
Zone: 3-8
Interesting balloon-like buds burst open into fully double, bell-shaped flowers. Exceptional branching and thick flower petals make for long-lasting periwinkle blue blossoms.
Height: 15-20"
Spread: 15"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-8
Clusters of fragrant, baby pink flowers with a darker pink center are produced in great abundance atop strong stems continuously from midsummer into fall.
Height: 6-8"
Spread:12"
Exposure: Full-Part Sun
Zone: 3-8
'Sentimental Blue' is an excellent low-growing border or rock garden plant. It is a prolific bloomer that is pest and disease free.
Height: 12-18"
Spread: 12"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-8
The shocking variegated foliage of this new selection has incredible impulse appeal. It could certainly be grown for its foliage alone; the large clusters of lavender pink flowers with a white starburst center are a great bonus.
Height: 4-6"
Spread: 12-18"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 2-9
Delicate lavender blue flowers which blanket the foliage in late spring. It creates a subtle swathe of color when in bloom.
Balloon Flower
Platycodon 'Astra Double Blue'
Balloon Flower
Platycodon grandiflorus 'Sentimental Blue'
Phlox paniculata 'Shockwave'
Phlox paniculata 'Pixie Twinkle'
Phlox subulata 'Blue Emerald'
Phlox paniculata 'Starfire'
Lungwort Pulmonaria 'Little Star'
Lungwort
Pulmonaria longifolia 'Bertram Anderson'
Jacob's Ladder
Polemonium reptans 'Stairway to Heaven'
Lungwort Pulmonaria 'Majeste'
Balloon Flower
Platycodon grandiflorus 'Double Blue'
Balloon Flower
Platycodon 'Astra Pink'
Height: 6"
Spread: 6"
Exposure: Full Sun- Full Shade
Zone: 4-9
Lungworts offer long-term interest. In early spring they brighten up the garden with bright, long-lasting flowers, many of which change color as they age.
Height: 8-12"
Spread: 18-24"
Exposure: Full Sun- Full Shade
Zone: 3-9
Solid silvery-gray leaves with a very narrow green margin characterize this variety of Pulmonaria.
Height: 8-10"
Spread: 18-24"
Exposure: Full Sun- Full Shade
Zone: 3-9
Outstanding for mass plantings! Be dazzled by a sea of gentian blue flowers emerging from fuchia buds in late spring
Height: 12-24"
Spread: 12-18"
Exposure: Part Shade- Full Shade
Zone: 3-7
A cultivar with green foliage and a white margin tinged with pink. Pale lavender-blue flowers bloom in late spring to early summer.
Height: 24"
Spread: 12-18"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Sun
Zone: 3-8
Interesting balloon-like buds burst open into vibrant violet-blue, double, bell-shaped flowers. 'Double Blue' is a very reliable bloomer that is pest and disease free.
Height: 8-12"
Spread: 6-8"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Sun
Zone: 3-8
Its compact, uniform habit makes 'Astra Pink' a good selection for cut flowers, containers, or the garden.
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Soapwort Saponaria ocymoides
Meadow Sage
Salvia nemorosa MARCUS™
Salvia verticillata 'Purple Rain'
Salvia May Night
Black Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia fulgida 'Viiette's little Suzy'
Lungwort Pulmonaria 'Raspberry Splash'
Height: 18-24"
Spread: 20-30"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-9
It forms a mound of fuzzy, serrated leaves rather low to the ground, and blooms in July through September with spikes of smoky-purple flowers that rise above the mound of foliage.
Height: 12"
Spread: 8-15"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-9
A great new vertical plant for the front of the perennial border or rock garden. It will bloom starting in June and if deadheaded will rebloom throughout the growing season.
Height: 8"
Spread: 12-15"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone:3-7
Saponaria is a sprawling plant which forms a nice carpet of semi-evergreen foliage. Small sprays of pink flowers appear in early summer. It works well in a rock garden, as a groundcover, or between stepping stones on a path.
Height: 18"
Spread: 15-24"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-8
Flower spikes of indigo blue in midsummer. Moist, well-drained soil is ideal, although the perennial salvias are tolerant of drought conditions.
Height: 12-18"
Spread: 12-18"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-8
Rudbeckia 'Viette's Little Suzy' is a compact, upright, free-blooming coneflower featuring daisy-like flowers with yellow rays and dark brownish-purple center disks..
Height: 12"
Spread: 12-15"
Exposure: Full Sun- Full Shade
Zone: 4-9
This pulmonaria has a somewhat upright growth habit, with sharply pointed silver marked foliage. The small bell-shaped flowers arrive in May and are a raspberry coral color.
Sedum spectabile 'Neon'
Sedum 'Purple Emperor'
Sedum kamtschaticum
Sedum 'Bertram Anderson'
Sedum Autumn Joy
Sedum 'Herbstfreude'
Sedum Autumn Charm™
Sedum 'Lajos'
Height: 18"
Spread: 15-20"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-8
'Neon' really does describe the bright rose-pink flower color of this cultivar. The color of this flower really stands out from a distance.
Height: 6"
Spread: 12"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 3-9
A compact, low-growing groundcover with deep purple, flattened oval leaves. Masses of mauve-pink flowers blanket the foliage from late summer to early fall.
Height: 16"
Spread: 12"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-9
'Purple Emperor' has very dark reddish-purple foliage and a semi-upright habit. It captures your attention from the moment the dusky purple leaves emerge in spring, and forms a solid substantial mass of foliage.
Height: 4-6"
Spread: 10-15"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 3-8
An attractive semi-evergreen groundcover with rich green, toothed leaves and a dense creeping habit. Bright yellow flowers which are produced in early summer.
Height: 18-24"
Spread: 18-24"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-8
Tall growing sedum with gray-green foliage. Flowers are large plateheads of pink from late summer to frost. Tolerant of dry soil.
Height: 12-18"
Spread: 12-18"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-8
A variegated sport of 'Autumn Joy', with all the great qualities of its parent plus great variegated foliage. Topped with the same bright pink flowers aging to deep red.
Height: 2-3'
Spread: 18-24"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 4-10
'Color Guard' bears bright creamy-yellow leaves with green edges.
Height: 4-6"
Spread: 12-18"
Exposure: Full Sun- Full Shade
Zone: 4-9
An exceptional, weed-smothering, evergreen groundcover with dark green leaves. From mid to late spring, intense blue-violet flowers appear just above the foliage.
Height: 6-12"
Spread: 9-15"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Sun
Zone: 4-8
An excellent dwarf veronica for the very front of the perennial border, only reaching a diminutive height of 6-12". Blooms from mid to late summer with clear, bright, medium pink, spiky blooms.
Height: 2-3'
Spread: 18-24"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 4-8
Grown mainly for its fantastic foliage, this selection has bright yellow (not gold), aromatic, ferny leaves that have tremendous color impact even from a distance.
Height: 24-36"
Spread: 18-24"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 3-7
A striking and colorful element for the garden. 'Golden Queen' produces 2-3 inch wide, golden-orange, bowl-shaped flowers from late spring into midsummer.
Height: 6"
Spread: 8-10"
Exposure: Full Sun- Full Shade
Zone: 3-8
The perfect small, clump-forming tiarella. This selection produces a compact mound of deeply divided, green leaves painted with black along the midrib.
Height: 18-20"
Spread: 18"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Sun
Zone: 4-8
This species forms large, rounded clumps of green, long and narrow, textured leaves. It is lovely even when it's not in bloom. In midsummer, sturdy spikes of lavender-rose flowers shoot up through the foliage.
Height: 3-4"
Spread: 6-8"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-8
Sempervivum is comprised of one large rosette called the "hen" which sprouts many smaller rosettes around it called "chicks". As the plants age, the "hen" may die out and be replaced by the "chicks".
Adam's Needle
Yucca filamentosa 'Color Guard'
Creeping Myrtle
Vinca minor 'Bowles' Variety'
Veronica 'Giles van Hees'
Globeflower Trollius chinensis 'Golden Queen'
Foamflower Tiarella 'Spring Symphony'
Tansy-Gold Leaf
Tanacetum vulgare 'Isla Gold'
Hummelo Stachys monnieri 'Hummelo'
Mixed Hybrids Hens and Chicks
Sempervivum - mixed hybrids
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Adam's Needle
Yucca filamentosa
Height: 3-4'
Spread: 18-24"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 4-10
Tough as nails, yuccas are the ideal plant for a no-maintenance garden. Their sword-like foliage radiates upward from a central crown, remaining upright all year round except in the heaviest snows.
Height: 18-24"
Spread: 15-20"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 4-8
Vivid violet-blue spikes dart up above the dark green, crinkly foliage from midsummer into fall.
Veronica 'Sunny Border Blue'
Foamflower Tiarella 'Black Snowflake'
Height:8"
Spread: 12"
Exposure: Full Sun- Full Shade
Zone: 3-8
One of the most elegant foamflowers to date, it sports deeply dissected, glossy, green leaves with prominent black-purple centers. The new growth is nearly all black, resembling its namesake.
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Sedum 'John Creech'
Height: 2"
Spread: 12"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-9
A dense groundcover with very small, green leaves that keep their intense color even in full sun. Its tight, compact habit keeps the weeds from poking through.
Sedum 'Frosty Morn'
Sedum Dragon's Blood
Sedum spurium 'Dragon's Blood'
Height: 24-36"
Spread: 24-36"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 3-9
Forms a compact clump of large, blue-green, widely undulating leaves with toothed margins. The wavy margins really set this variety apart in the landscape.
Height: 6"
Spread: 12-18"
Exposure: Full Sun- Part Shade
Zone: 3-8
Hardy perennial great for rock gardens. Brilliant red flowers in late summer. Leaves turn vibrant orange-red in fall.
Meadow Sage East Friesland
Salvia nemorosa ‘Ostfriesland’
Height: 16-18"
Spread: 18-24"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-8
Blooming in early summer, the bright violet-purple flower spikes rise above a tidy mound of foliage. The foliage is aromatic when crushed.
Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens
Black Eyed Susan Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm'
Height: 24-30"
Spread: 24-30"
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-9
Produces masses of showy, golden yellow, daisy-like flowers from July to mid-October. Goldfinches love the seeds.
Lungwort Pulmonaria longifolia 'Roy Davidson'
Height: 8-12"
Spread: 18-24"
Exposure: Full Sun- Full Shade
Zone: 3-9
Great for the front of the border, the neatly mounded foliage of 'Roy Davidson' stays nice all season long. The leaves, heavily spotted with silver, are long and narrow.
Phlox paniculata ‘Natural Feelings’
Height: 30"
Spread: 18-24"
Exposure: Full-Part Sun
Zone: 3-8
Plants have an upright, bushy habit. Flowers lack petals but are made up of showy green and pink bracts, held together in a large and fragrant cluster that remains attractive for weeks.
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