The Garden Slices™ are an extension of the We Plan - You Plant program. They are pre-designed gardens you can install in a single weekend, complete with a detailed plan, plant list, step-by-step installation instructions and continuing care information. Perfect for the Do-It-Yourself Gardener that doesn't like to wait. Garden Slices™ also make a great gift!
Please select the Garden Slice™ you would like to view:
"A Romantic at Heart" (Sun) "A Romantic at Heart" (Shade) "Be Gone Lawn"
"Don't Flutter By" "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" "Hey, Mr. Postman"
"Look Dear, No Deer" "Made in the Shade" "Wild Abandon"
"A Romantic at Heart"-Lover's Garden for a Sunny Location
A perfect garden built for two.
“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.” - Voltaire
Plants Include:
- Summerwine® Ninebark, Pink-a-licious™ Fritsch Spirea, Morning Light Maiden Grass, Pink Knockout® Rose, Blue Paradise Phlox & Wink and Smile Daylily
Note: Bench not included.
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"A Romantic at Heart"-Lover's Garden for a Shady Location
Plants Include:
- Fragrant Bouquet Hosta, Black Negligee Snakeroot, Lady in Red™ Fern, Hot Lips Turtlehead, Luxuriant Bleeding Heart & Sweet Woodruff
Note: Bench not included.
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"Be Gone, Lawn" - Ornamental Grass Garden
Grass does not have to mean turf-with all the mowing, irrigating, fertilizing and chemical applications. We've put together an assortment of our favorite ornamental grasses just for you. This easy care mixture of color, texture and height will become a favorite garden. Try planting as a screen to block unsightly objects like an air conditioner or utility boxes.
"A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule." - Michael Pollan
Plants Include:
- Northwind Switch Grass, Karl Foerster Grass, Red Flame Grass, Fall Blooming Reed Grass, Blue Moor Grass, Pennsylvania Sedge & Shenandoah Red Switch Grass
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"Don't Flutter By" - Butterfly Garden
Emerge from your own work-a-day chrysalis with this sun-splashed oasis of color that will also provide food for caterpillars, nectar for adult butterflies and a place for you to unwind and enjoy the wonders of nature.
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly. "One must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower." - Hans Christian Anderson
Plants Include:
- Cup Plant, Fantasia Hibiscus, October Skies Aster, Magnus Purple Coneflower, Happy Returns Daylily, Red Milkweed, Blue Hill Salvia, Prairie Dropseed Grass, Minnie Pearl Phlox, Butterflyweed
Note: Birdbath not included.
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"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" - Songbird Garden
These living bird feeders will thrive with full sun and average moisture. Be sure to place your garden where you can watch all the brightly colored visitors year after year.
"To me, the garden is a doorway to other worlds; one of them, of course, is the world of birds." - Anne Rover
Plants Include:
- Dwarf Pavement Shrub Rose, Cup Plant, The Blues Little Bluestem Grass, October Skies Aster, Kobold Blazing Star, Magnus Purple Coneflower, Viette's Little Suzy Rudbeckia, Zagreb Coreopsis, Prairie Dropseed Grass
Note: Birdbath not included.
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"Hey, Mr. Postman" - Mailbox Garden
Curb appeal and pizzazz are easy with these sun loving and salt tolerant plants. You will have the best looking mailbox in the neighborhood!
"I get mail, therefore I am." - Scott Adams (Cartoonist)
Plants Include:
- Karl Foerster Grass, Caradonna Salvia, Magic Carpet Spirea, Bevan's Geranium, Pardon Me Daylily
Note: Mailbox not included.
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"Look Dear, No Deer" - Deer Resistant Garden
Tawny, delicate and graceful-we all love deer. But not when they're eating our gardens! Deer will usually walk right by these hardy plants and leave your sunny garden vibrant with color from late-spring until frost.*
"Oh give me a home, where the buffalo roam. Where the deer and the antelope play." -Brewster Higley
Plants Include:
- Happy Centenial Forsythia, Moring Light Maiden Grass, False Blue Indigo, Rasberry Wine Bee Balm, Montrose White Calamint, The Blues Little Bluestem Grass, Hummelo Lamb's Ear, Blue Ice Amsonia, Bevan's Geranium
*These plant selections have been shown to be resistant to deer browsing. However, if the conditions are right, deer will eat anything. The only sure way to keep them out is to put a fence around the landscape.
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"Made in the Shade" - Shade Garden
This shade garden has plants that are ideal for an area that receives four or less hours of sunlight in a day.
"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." - Les Brown
Plants Include:
- Blue Angel Hosta, June Hosta, Hotlips Turtlehead, The King Ostrich Fern, Black Negligee Snakeroot, Vision Astilbe, Palace Purple Coral Bells, Dwarf Goatsbeard, Blue Zinger Sedge
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"Wild Abandon" - Wisconsin Natives Garden
Go Wild! These Wisconsin natives will not just tolerate every extreme our weather can throw at them; they will thrive, grow stronger each year, and delight you with their subtle colors and bold architectures in even the harshest sunny yard.
"For myself I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous." - Edward Abbey
Plants Include:
- American Filbert, Wild Senna, Ironweed, Sky Blue Aster, Little Bluestem Grass, Prairie Smoke, Prairie Dropseed Grass, Purple Prairie Clover, Wild Geranium
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