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Missouri Botanical Garden: Plants in Bloom

AT A GLANCE

OCTOBER 01 - OCTOBER 07, 1999

• Summer annual bedding plants throughout the Garden remain showy. Particularly noteworthy are the beds in the Kresko Victorian and Milles Sculpture Gardens.

• Mums are blooming in many locations throughout the Garden.

• Tropical water lilies are still flowering in the Milles Sculpture and Swift Family Gardens. The exotic, fruity fragrance of the Victoria flowers perfume the evening garden.

• Roses in both the Gladney and Lehmann Rose Gardens are in full, seasonal bloom.

• Fruits of the Tea viburnums (Viburnum setigerum) in the Jenkins Daylily Garden are very showy.

• Butterflies are numerous on the many flowering plants in the Christopher Biraben Butterfly Meadow and elsewhere throughout the grounds.

• The carnivorous plant bog in the Shoenberg Temperate House is particularly showy right now: the beautiful twisted spikes of the Ladies tresses orchids (Spiranthes cernua var. odorata) complement the luminescent pitchers of the carnivorous White trumpet (Sarracenia leucophylla). Among the Venus flytraps (Dionaea muscipula), miniature blossoms grace the stems of the Yellow-eyed grass (Xyris sp.).

• Fragrant olive trees are filling the Linnean House with their rich scent. Look for the unusual orange flowering Fragrant olive (Osmanthus fragrans var. aurantiacus). The foliage of the Rex begonias is especially showy, and powder-blue blossoms cascade from the Cape leadwort vine (Plumbago auriculata).

• The Coleus and Tropical Garden displays in the Kemper Center Gardens are very showy.

• Autumn leaves are just beginning to turn throughout the Garden. Peak color is still several weeks away.

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