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Section: 2 Quantity: 3 Letter: O Donation: $115 -
Section: 4 Quantity: 7 Letter: U Donation: $160Description:
This sturdy perennial is as tough as they come. Clumping foliage displays large, plate-like flower clusters that provide a bright yellow brightness to the garden. A fine addition to the rock garden or mixed border. Succulent foliage will die back to the ground in cold winter regions, but will re-emerge in early spring. Your gift includes seven of these plants, grouped into a colorful bunch that will nurtured each year.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 2 Quantity: 7 Letter: F Donation: $175Description:
Walker’s Low Catmint is an herbaceous perennial that can grow as high as two feet with a spread of 18 to 36 inches, making it a distinctive and attention-getting addition to the garden. The blossoms’ lovely lavender color is accentuated by fragrant, silvery leaves. Including these plants in the Kar Platz border will certainly highlight this distinctive part of the garden. Your gift includes seven of these tall, colorful plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 4 Quantity: 7 Letter: Y Donation: $175Description:
Zagreb Coreopsis is a fresh-looking perennial with yellow, daisy-like flowers—1 to 2 inches in diameter—with bright yellow petals and darker centers. The plant can become one- to three-feet tall with ample blossoms from late spring to late summer. Your gift includes seven of these delightful plants that will line one end of the garden’s stone walkway.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 4 Quantity: 5 Letter: M Donation: $185Description:
Butterfly Weed is a vibrant native wildflower that grows to between one and three feet tall and one to one and a half feet wide. Its clustered flowers, which bloom from June through August, can vary in color from a rich orange to orange yellow. Your gift includes five of these beautiful perennial plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 2 Quantity: 7 Letter: D Donation: $200Description:
Part of the border of the Kar Platz is the hardy Ice Plant, which provides a layer of beautiful color during much of the blooming season. Soft green leaves underscore vibrant, purplish-pink, daisy-like flowers that will be extremely vibrant—and noticeable—in this part of the garden. Your gift includes seven of these distinctive, colorful plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 2 Quantity: 3 Letter: G Donation: $235Description:
The Anthony Waterer Spirea is a wonderful mounded, upright, deciduous shrub that typically grows to two to three feet tall and three to four feet wide. Its oval leaves, which are usually about three inches long, start out reddish purple, changing to blue green in summer and reddish in autumn. The carmine-red cluster in corymbs up to six inches wide) from late spring to the middle of summer. Your gift includes three of these colorful butterfly-attracting plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 3 Quantity: 3 Letter: G Donation: $235
Description:
The Anthony Waterer Spirea is a wonderful mounded, upright, deciduous shrub that typically grows to two to three feet tall and three to four feet wide. Its oval leaves, which are usually about three inches long, start out reddish purple, changing to blue green in summer and reddish in autumn. The carmine-red cluster in corymbs up to six inches wide) from late spring to the middle of summer. Your gift includes three of these colorful butterfly-attracting plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 4 Quantity: 7 Letter: S Donation: $235Description:
Butterflies love Siberian Iris and so do almost everyone who sees it. The flowers are colorful with a pleasant vase shape that is still attractive after the blooming season. The leaves are blue-green and the frilly flowers are a vibrant purple. The Siberian Iris seems to come alive in the slightest breeze, adding an animated texture to the garden along the edge of the Roundel Plaza. Your gift includes seven of these elegant plantsAdd-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 5 Quantity: 3 Letter: W Donation: $235Description:
This dwarf semi-evergreen shrub flowers year round with colorful foliage that changes with the seasons. In spring it starts with green and gold foliage that morphs to gold in the summer and orange red in the fall. It holds a rounded shape, growing to about 2 to 2-1/2 feet tall with diameters in the three- to four-foot range. Your gift includes three of these gorgeous, color-changing plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Non Plant Hard Items -
One unique way to support the Foundation and its mission is to purchase a personalized brick. You choose the message — many have inscribed their name and their favorite BMW — and we will put it in the Garden to form a new walkway or patio. Your gift will become part of the foundation of the Foundation. It’s a cool way to show your support for your favorite marque! For a donation of $250 you will choose the names and logo on the brick. You may use the logos of the Foundation, Tire Rack Street Survival, the BMW CCA, or even The Ultimate Driving Museum. Just click HERE for the Brick Program form and we will do the rest! -
Goldi Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia 'Aurea') is a fast-growing, brilliant golden green colored ground cover. Summer brings equally brilliant yellow blooms the butterflies are particularly fond of. -
Ophiopogon Japonicus Mondo Grass -
The big, pure white flowers of the 'PowWow' white coneflower with their yellow-gold centers brighten the garden from early summer to fall. A donation is for a set of three coneflower plants. -
Section: 2 Quantity: 8 Letter: M Donation: $290
Description:
Butterfly Weed is a vibrant native wildflower that grows to between one and three feet tall and one to one and a half feet wide. Its clustered flowers, which bloom from June through August, can vary in color from a rich orange to orange yellow. Your gift includes five of these beautiful perennial plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 6 Quantity: 11 Letter: EE Donation: $290Description:
Blue Fescue is an ornamental grass with a blue foliage that will set it apart for more conventional green grasses and will certainly catch the eye of anyone passing by on the adjacent walkway. Your gift includes 11 of these soft grass plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 3 Quantity: 9 Letter: Q Donation: $300Description:
Japanese Sweet Flag Grass is a perennial plant that sports long, knife-like light-green to golden-yellow leaves. They can achieve 39 inches in height and in spring and early summer, may produce small, greenish-yellow flower spikes, followed by red berries. The “sweet” part of its name comes from the pleasant aroma that happens when the leaves are crushed. Your gift includes nine of these plants that will border the Roundel Plaza.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
M Platz Society
Thanks to the generosity of our trustee Dr. Leo Newland, we now have an outdoor space worthy of The Ultimate Driving Museum. The platz—German for plaza—is a 1,200 square foot gathering space made of brick pavers. Everyone who donates to the Platz in 2022 will have the chance to purchase a personalized brick and will have their name listed in our M Platz Society donor’s guide. We are also offering limited-edition, special “red-carpet” bricks. Our Red Carpet bricks are located on the main pathway and get maximum visibility. Tribute bricks may be dedicated in loving memory of someone dear to you, or in honor of someone passed. An example might read “1998 E46 M3 John Smith,” or “In Loving Memory of Granddad Ernie.” It will be nestled in the platz as a permanent reminder of your support of our mission and the 50th Anniversary of BMW Motorsport. Anyone can make a one-time donation to support the platz—or the Foundation in general—without purchasing a brick. Click here for the BMW CCA Foundation's Donation page! You can also support the platz and our Foundation with a donation towards our Adirondack chairs. Click here for the Adirondack Chair page. (After your payment is processed you will receive a link to the Personalized Brick Form. Please fill out the form and return it to the Foundation by mail or email so we may create your personalized brick. You may also click HERE to download the form.) -
'Silver Anouk' Lavender’s unusual two-toned flowers are framed by its silvery foliage making it a garden standout. Dark plum flowers are topped by violet flags, like butterfly wings. -
Fantastic tricolored foliage in shades of creamy-white, rose-burgundy, and dark green make this ajuga different than all the others. In the fall, the mature leaves turn a deep bronze while the newer growth takes on a rose tone. From mid to late spring, short spikes of blue flowers stand upright above the low, spreading foliage. -
Section: 1 Quantity: 74 Letter: B Donation: $315Description:
This evergreen groundcover forms lush, green mounds up to a foot tall. Its fine leaves resemble grass and will be part of a cohesive and visually aesthetic frame for the Kar Platz. Your gift includes 74 of these plants grouped in the center of the approach to the Kar Platz.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 2 Quantity: 12 Letter: L Donation: $325Description:
The Snowflake Iberis is, as the name implies, an evergreen groundcover with small, flat leaves covered in crowded white flowers in spring. Each flower has four white petals with a yellow dot in the center. Your gift includes 12 of these sprawling perennial plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 5 Quantity: 12 Letter: X Donation: $325Description:
The Carex Everillo is a dense, grass-like ornamental sedge with glistening yellow leaves with dark green edges that curl toward the ground. It provides a distinctive textural contrast to the gardens other plants and stone or masonry objects. It’s fountain-like appearance grows to about 12 to 18 inches tall and is 24 to 26 inches wide. Your gift includes 12 of these award-winning plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 3 Quantity: 12 Letter: P Donation: $330Description:
Ryan's White Daisy appears as dark green leafy mounds that produce beautiful white daisy flowers with yellow eyes at the ends of the stems. Blooming almost all summer, this herbaceous perennial will provide a simple elegance to the center of the Founders’ Garden. Your gift includes 12 of these plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
American beautyberry is a fast growing native perennial shrub; growing five to eight feet tall and almost as wide with drooping branches. In late spring to early summer, inconspicuous flowers of blue, violet, pink, or white are arranged in clusters on the stems between the leaves. In August or September, clusters of small purple to blue berries or drupes encircle the woody stems. -
A round, compact habit Dapper Lavender will color our landscape superbly with masses of purple flower cones that bring a light fragrance and an influx of colorful butterflies to the garden. -
Miss Molly Buddleia has fragrant flowers that are a rich deep pink color. This compact plant is smaller than many other buddleia varieties and its distinctive flower color makes late summer gardens pop. Its fragrant flowers attract butterflies and hummingbirds. -
Sweet Drift Rose features showy clusters of fragrant pink flowers with gold eyes at the ends of the branches from late spring to mid fall. Each donation is for a set of three rose bushes. -
Section: 6 Quantity: 18 Letter: CC Donation: $410Description:
Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass blooms early, with tall vertical growth and wispy gold or bronze plumes that present a different texture to the garden, even more animated with the slightest breeze. Your gift includes 18 of these tall, feathery plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 6 Quantity: 14 Letter: DD Donation: $410Description:
The Purple Coneflower, a member of the echinacea family, is an herbaceous perennial that produces large—up to 5 inches—daisy-like purple and white coneflowers with woody crowns throughout the summer. The stiff stems, often two- to four-feet tall, are stacked with ovate to broad, dark green leaves. Your gift includes 14 of these distinctive plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 3 Quantity: 12 Letter: O Donation: $465
Description:
Pink Muhly is a native ornamental grass that provides outstanding texture to the garden with extraordinary late-season color, when delicate pink plumes completely envelop the foliage. When mature, this grass plant can grow to 48-inches high and 36-inches wide. Your gift includes 12 of these unusually beautiful plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 4 Quantity: 25 Letter: T Donation: $465Description:
The Happy Returns daylily displays 3.5-inch ruffled, lemon-yellow flowers on bare stems. They usually rise 18 inches above the arching, linear, knife-like green leaves, and bloom from later spring to late summer. Your gift includes 25 of these elegant plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 6 Quantity: 12 Letter: O Donation: $465
Description:
Pink Muhly is a native ornamental grass that provides outstanding texture to the garden with extraordinary late-season color, when delicate pink plumes completely envelop the foliage. When mature, this grass plant can grow to 48-inches high and 36-inches wide. Your gift includes 12 of these unusually beautiful plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 4 Quantity: 7 Letter: V Donation: $500Description:
The Sweet Drift Rose produces beautiful dwarf mounds of double flowers from spring through late fall adding waves of gorgeous color that will make the center of the Founders’ Garden pop. This low-maintenance small-rose groundcover grows to about 1½ feet and will rebloom again and again ensuring the garden has color all season. Your gift includes seven of these colorful, elegant plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text. -
Section: 6 Quantity: 2 Letter: V Donation: $500
Description:
The Sweet Drift Rose produces beautiful dwarf mounds of double flowers from spring through late fall adding waves of gorgeous color. This low-maintenance small-rose groundcover grows to about 1½ feet and will rebloom again and again ensuring the garden has color all season. Your gift includes seven of these colorful, elegant plants.Add-on the Purchase of a Plaque:
These markers are approximately 4”x6” in size and are made of aluminum which can stand up to the weather. The marker is black with a raised dual silver border to highlight your text.
