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Missouri Botanical Garden: Plants in Bloom

AT A GLANCE

SEPTEMBER 5 - SEPTEMBER 11, 1997

• At the Kemper Center for Home Gardening, Sneezeweed, Prairie blazing star, and Prairie dock 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. Look for the rare Chinese Heptacodium shrub blooming against the wall north of the Vegetable Garden.

• Tardiva hydrangeas throughout the grounds are at peak bloom.

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

• The delightful scent of the Sweetautumn clematis on the Arbor in the Swift Family Garden perfumes the air. 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.

• Hardy begonias growing near the bog in the English Woodland Garden are showy. Toad lilies are beginning to bloom.

• In the Shoenberg Temperate House, look for the beautiful purple berries of the American beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) and smell the sweet scent of Jasmine (Jasminum tortuosum and Jasminum officinale).

• In the Linnean House, the Tea camellia (Camellia sinensis), whose dried leaves are the source of the aromatic beverage, is beginning to flower. Look for other early fall-blooming camellias that are just now beginning to bloom.

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

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

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

• 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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