Mad City Tour Gardens

Jean Bawden's Earthspirit Farm sprawls over 5 acres of mostly sunny, rolling terrain.  She moved many of her plants from her garden in Madison, Wisconsin, which was featured on the 1996 Region 2 Summer Tour about nine years ago.  Since then Jean has been madly planting woody plants (around 300 varieties), daylilies, hosta, iris, tree peonies, and many other perennials. 

Her garden features a huge collection of named daylilies, many newer iris for the 2010 National Iris Tour, 300+ varieties of hosta, seedlings from her hybridizing endeavors, and seedlings of John Sheehan and Lloyd Ravet.  Some of the newer daylilies include: 'Kitty Wells', 'Topspin', 'Screen Pattern', 'Beauty of the King', 'Blackberries And Cream', 'Cary Grant', and 'Fashion Police'.  Earthspirit Farm has also been a retail nursery for the past nine years, selling hosta, daylilies, and Siberian iris.  In the past two years, Jean has trimmed her daylily collection to around 400 of her favorites, to provide more room to grow seedlings.  Earthspirit Farm consists of more than 40 different garden beds, with some coming into prominence at different times of the year.

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