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Missouri Botanical Garden: Plants in Bloom

AT A GLANCE

MAY 29 - JUNE 4, 1998

• Roses are outstanding in both the Gladney and Lehmann Rose Gardens, with modern hybrids and many climbers at peak bloom this week.

• Japanese iris in Seiwa-En, the Japanese Garden are at peak bloom this week.

• Astilbes and Columbines are very showy in the English Woodland Garden.

• Oakleaf hydrangeas and Smooth hydrangeas are showy in many locations on the grounds.

• Hardy waterlilies in the pool at the base of the Dry Stream Bed in the Knolls are now in bloom.

• Carnivorous plants are blooming and eating heartily in the Shoenberg Temperate House. Look for the tiny rabbit-shaped flowers on the carnivorous Bladderwort (Utricularia sandersonii), giving it the common name of Rabbit ears. Hydrangeas are particularly showy this week, especially the Lacecap hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla 'Mariesii').

• The sweet fragrance of Star jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides) permeates the air in the Linnean House. Colorful Impatiens (Impatiens walleriana 'Dazzler Series') line the winding brick path.

• Climbing roses on the Overlook and fragrant Shrub roses in the Fragrance Garden in the Kemper Center for Home Gardening are very showy.

• You'll never see a finer display of Indian paintbrush (Castilleja coccinea) than the planting in the Lucy and Stanley Lopata Prairie Garden at the Kemper Center for Home Gardening. Penstemons and Lanceleaf coreopsis are also showy in this garden.

• Yarrows in the Lois Whiteside Franklin Flower Trial Garden at the Center for Home Gardening are at peak bloom.

• Some Japanese and a few Louisiana and Spuria iris are flowering in the Goodman Iris Garden.

• Tropical water lilies in the pools in the Milles Sculpture Garden are beginning to bloom.

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