A frost expected over the weekend will likely end the growing season of
the remaining tropical bedding plants in various locations on the grounds.
Temperatures are not expected to fall low enough to damage other plantings,
including seasonal mum displays.
Many trees and shrubs are beginning to show some autumn color. The large
blackgum by the zig-zag bridge in Seiwa-En is noteworthy, as are the
dogwoods in the English Woodland Garden.
Garden mums (Chrysanthemum spp.) are blooming in many locations
on the grounds.
Roses in both the Gladney and Lehmann Rose Gardens are still showy.
Tropical waterlilies are blooming in the pools in the Milles Sculpture
Garden. The fruity fragrance of the Victoria waterlilies perfumes the
air on warm evenings.
The sweet aroma of the Fragrant olive trees (Osmanthus fragrans)
wafts through and out from the Linnean House ... you can smell them fifty
feet away! Colorful impatiens and begonias carpet the ground beneath
the budding camellia trees.
The carnivorous plant bog in the Shoenberg Temperate House is particularly
beautiful right now, featuring new luminescent pitchers of the white-topped
Pitcher plant (Sarracenia leucophylla) and the beautiful twisted
blossoms of the Ladies tresses orchids (Spiranthes odorata var.
cernua).
It's not unusual to see some scattered blooms at this time of year in the
Lopata Azalea and Rhododendron Garden as temperatures and day length
approximate conditions of the normal spring flowering season. Buds that
open and bloom now will not flower again next spring.
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