MBG Plants in Bloom: at a Glance

Missouri Botanical Garden: Plants in Bloom

Come out of the cold and enjoy the blooms of the Shoenberg Temperate House: Roses, Snapdragons, Cyclamen and Delphinium-like blue Coleus adorn the tiled Moorish Garden. Smell the spicy fragrance of the Wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox) and look for the unusual blossoms of the Dutchman's pipe (Aristolochia californica) climbing up the grape vine.
Poinsettias, Cyclamen and early-blooming Camellias decorate the Linnean House, accompanied by the sweet scent of the Fragrant olive trees (Osmanthus fragrans). Look for the showy yellow spikes on the Chinese grape holly (Mahonia lomariifolia) in the southeast corner of the house.
Winter Pansies fill the beds in the Lois Whiteside Franklin Flower Trial Garden at the Kemper Center for Home Gardening.
It's not unusual to see some sporadic flowering in the Lopata Azalea and Rhododendron Garden collection at this time of year.
Robins and catbirds can be seen feasting on Crabapples and Holly berries throughout the Garden. The flock of introduced quail meanders throughout the grounds gleaning seeds from beds where annuals, grasses and perennials grew this past summer.
Ozark witchhazels (Hamamelis vernalis) are blooming in the Jenkins Daylily Garden.
The fruits of the deciduous Hollies seem to glow from within at this time of year, especially the varieties 'Winter Red' on Spoehrer Plaza, and 'Afterglow' by the statue of Henry Shaw near Tower Grove House.
Seed heads of ornamental grasses are showy at this time.