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Missouri Botanical Garden: Plants in Bloom

AT A GLANCE

AUGUST 8 - AUGUST 14, 1997

• At the Center for Home Gardening, Coneflowers, Blazing star, and Early Goldenrod in the Lucy and Stanley Lopata Prairie Garden are showy. Look for the many different sunflowers in the Sunflower Display. The Garden phlox and Spike gayfeathers in the Low Maintenance Perennial Display are at peak bloom. The Supertunias (Petunia axillaris) in the Flower Trial Garden are showy. The intricate knot garden in the circular bed in the Vegetable Garden is very showy.

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

• Tardiva hydrangeas throughout the grounds are showy.

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

• The Crapemyrtles in Bakewell Court are in full bloom.

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

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

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

• 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.

• Summersweet clethra can be found blooming in many locations on the grounds.

• 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 Kemper Center for Home Gardening are showy.

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