Roger Anderson's Callie's Beaux Jardins is in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin; W6658 Sunset Lane, 53538. (The story is Callie was their dog, and his daughter studying high school French, came up with beaux jardins...beautiful garden.) This a short distance from Madison, so a natural to visit after the American Peony Convention in 2002. It may be a short distance, but you have to want to get there. While not impossible, you do need a road map and good directions, as it is in the country. Mr. Anderson doesn't have his own internet domain, but does have his website under a daylily site (hardyhems.com). Near as I can tell, he doesn't have to advertise. He sells out of everything he has yearly...and it isn't cheap. But he is THE King of the Intersectional hybrids, and his plants are everything you would expect them to be. To me they are a man's plant, kick ass, and full of testosterone...but that's only this plant nut's opinion.
Mr. Anderson's Gardens are below his house, toward some bottom land. His nearby house sits on a hill. He has a good collection of conifers, as well.
If you want his plants, you better order in the early spring...better, go there and beg on bended knee. Being the Grand Champion of the American Peony Society National Convention with Anderson's Bartzella, probably was the only edge I had, when I went there in June of 02; and then I did some begging!
I'll add the captions when I get around to it, or figure them out. When you click on the thumbnails, some of the pictures opening will be 1 meg. It was in the low 90's that day.
The Virtual Directory Of Much Of The Same.
Biography from the Wisconsin State Journal
