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Vander Veer Botanical Park Hosta Glade

215 West Central Park
Davenport, IA 52803

Website: Vander Veer Botanical Park

Contact: Carolyn Hamilton
Phone: 563-355-6973
Established: 1996
Number of Varieties: 300
Looks best mid-May - September
Open: Daily
Year Designated AHS Display Garden: 2003

The Hosta Glade is in VanderVeer Botanical Park, which is a historic public park in the center of Davenport.  The Hosta Glade now has 8 large hosta beds interspersed with companion plants.  Included in this Glade are hosta collections from hybridizers Eunice Fisher and Bob Solberg.  Also included is a memorial garden for DeEtta Montgomery
which has hostas and conifers from her garden.   The Mississippi
Valley Hosta Society helps maintain this Glade.

This city park also has a rose garden, conservatory, a restored fountain, an alee with 20 perennial beds and is a test garden for All- American annual selections.

   
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