MBG Plants in Bloom: at a Glance

Missouri Botanical Garden: Plants in Bloom

Peak autumn foliage color is now past with unseasonably high temperatures causing many leaves to fall prematurely. Color in the Japanese maples in Seiwa-En should improve in the upcoming week. Some fine color remains in the Sassafrass by the Mausoleum Garden.
Many roses in both the Gladney and Lehmann Rose Gardens are still showy.
Seed heads of ornamental grasses are showy throughout the grounds.
The sweet aroma of the Fragrant olive trees (Osmanthus fragrans) fills the Linnean House. The earliest Camellias are starting to bloom, a hint of the show to come this winter.
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 on individual shrubs at this time of year in the Lopata Azalea and Rhododendron Garden as temperatures and day lengths approximate conditions of the normal spring flowering season. These shrubs will bloom again in spring, but any individual buds that open and bloom now will not flower again.

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