Dave Wanninger

Dave Wanninger is chief horticulturist at Beaver Creek Nursery, a wholesale nursery located south of Clinton, Wisconsin. He also works for Klehm’s Song Sparrow Farm, which is the retail mail order/internet sister company of Beaver Creek Nursery.

Dave has previously operated a landscaping company and was the nursery manager at a large independent garden center. He is also a longtime Instructor in the Horticulture and Landscaping program at Blackhawk Technical College in his hometown of Janesville, Wisconsin. 

Dave received his Horticulture degree from University of Minnesota, but assures us that he bleeds UW Cardinal Red, particularly since he, his wife, and all three of his kids have attended or are attending UW –Madison. Dave embraces a large plant palette, but particularly favors hosta, lilies, peonies, and dwarf conifers in his home garden.