Mad City Tour Gardens

The Kleinheinz Garden
Tom and Rosemary Kleinheinz
104 West Lakeview
Madison, WI  53716

The Kleinheinz Garden showcases the collective efforts of two hard-working, enthusiastic gardeners with a flair for the unusual.  In addition to a wide variety of eye-catching daylilies, you will find an eclectic collection of conifers, trees, shrubs, and other perennials such as heathers, grasses, ferns and bulbs.

In July and August their collection of almost 300 daylilies demands your attention with all of their colors, shapes and sizes.  Their favorites change from day to day, but are always big, bright and beautiful.  Although they garden on a half-acre city lot, the biggest dilemma Tom and Rosemary face is still space – if they want to add a new cultivar, another has to go.

The shady part of their garden contains a collection of almost 200 hostas with a path that invites one to follow in search of other plants that thrive in shade.

As you debark the bus look for the Kleinheinz version of Stonehenge, anchoring a newly-planted sunny rock garden.  Throughout the gardens you will find garden art collected from different parts of the world as well as deck railing, benches and a whimsical piece designed by a local friend and blacksmith. Before leaving the garden, pause to find the shy goldfish swimming below the lovely waterfall.

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