Mad City Tour Gardens

Happy Meadows Farm
Phyllis and Don Sanner
N8257 Highway 104
Brooklyn, WI 53521

Welcome to Happy Meadows Farm.  Don and Phyllis are the third generation to own this 119-acre working farm which is often used by the Wisconsin Daylily Society to winter over and pre-test its new adoption plants.  Although the Sanners don't milk cows anymore, they do raise heifers for two other farmers and grow hay to sell.   Daylilies and flowerbeds are scattered throughout the farm buildings close to the barn and house.  Phyllis especially likes big daylilies that she can see from the house.   A spectacular clematus paniculata (Sweet Autumn) grows 15 feet tall on one of the silos.  This garden offers over two hundred daylilies, over a hundred lilliums and many other perennials to fill in.  In addition to large daylilies, the Sanners also have a fondness for doubles.

The double ditch lily showcased here grew at the back door of Phyllis’ grandmother's farm house.  Don and Phyllis also raise many annuals, do their own cuttings of perennials and keep numerous annual geraniums under lights in the basement in the winter time.  While you stroll the grounds, don’t miss the family quilt display which will be hanging on the clothesline.

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