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Missouri Botanical Garden: Plants in Bloom
AT A GLANCE
OCTOBER 08 - OCTOBER 14, 1999
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Mums are blooming in many locations throughout the Garden.
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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.
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Summer annual bedding plants throughout the Garden remain showy. Particularly
noteworthy are the beds in the Kresko Victorian and Milles Sculpture Gardens.
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Roses in both the Gladney and Lehmann Rose Gardens are in full, seasonal bloom.
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Fruits of the Tea viburnums (Viburnum setigerum) in the Jenkins Daylily
Garden are very showy.
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Butterflies are numerous on the many flowering plants in the Christopher Biraben
Butterfly Meadow and elsewhere throughout the grounds.
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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.).
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Fragrant olive trees (Osmanthus fragrans) are filling the Linnean House
with their rich scent. The foliage of the Rex begonias is especially showy,
and powder-blue blossoms cascade from the Cape leadwort vine (Plumbago
auriculata). The hanging baskets feature fall blooming camellias
(Camellia sasanqua).
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Eastern witchhazel (Hamamelis virginiana) is beginning to bloom in
several locations on the grounds. Large specimens can be seen in the Jenkins
Daylily Garden.
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Autumn leaves are just beginning to turn throughout the Garden. Peak color is
still several weeks away.
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