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Missouri Botanical Garden: Plants in Bloom

AT A GLANCE

AUGUST 15 - AUGUST 21, 1997

• At the Kemper Center for Home Gardening, Milkweeds, Coneflowers, and Goldenrods in the Lucy and Stanley Lopata Prairie Garden are showy. 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 showy.

• Tardiva hydrangeas throughout the grounds are very showy.

• Both the Swift Perennial Border and the Swift Family Garden, including the unusual aquatics in the pools just south of the Linnean House, are very 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.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

• Only a few Daylilies in the Jenkins Daylily Garden are still in bloom.

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