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Missouri Botanical Garden: Plants in Bloom

AT A GLANCE

JULY 25 - JULY 31, 1997

• Daylilies in the Jenkins Daylily Garden are past peak bloom, but still nice.

• The huge flowers of the 'Disco Belle' Hibiscus on The Knolls are very showy.

• At the Center for Home Gardening, Butterfly weed, Coneflowers, and Rattlesnake masters in the Lucy and Stanley Lopata Prairie Garden are showy. Look for the many different sunflowers in the Sunflower Display. The Spike gayfeathers in the Low Maintenance Perennial Display are at peak bloom.

• Roses in both the Gladney and Lehmann Rose Gardens are at the peak of seasonal bloom.

• Tall verbena and African daisies on Spoehrer Plaza are very showy.

• The Crepemyrtles in Bakewell Court are in full bloom.

• Cardinal flowers growing along the stream in the English Woodland Garden are in full bloom.

• In the Shoenberg Temperate House, carnivorous plants are lush and eating heartily, dining on insects. Look for the figs ripening high above the tiled Moorish garden.

• In the Linnean House, Impatiens are in full bloom and the foliage of the Rex begonias is very showy.

• Tardiva hydrangeas and Summersweet clethra throughout the grounds are now in bloom.

• Cannas are showy in the Heckman and Samuels Bulb Gardens.

• The Mexican Sunflowers in the Isabelle A. Baer Garden are in full bloom.

• Coneflowers, Phlox and Goldenrod in the Swift Perennial Border are very showy.

• Tropical water lilies in the Milles Sculpture Garden pools are showy.

• The view of the new Kresko Victorian Garden and the Kaiser Maze from atop the Piper Observatory is spectacular.

• The flower borders along the path to the Center for Home Gardening are showy.

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