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Missouri Botanical Garden: Plants in Bloom

AT A GLANCE

February 13 - February 19, 2004

• Camellias are nearing peak bloom in the Linnean House. The fancy leaves of the Rex begonias are showy.

• The sweetly scented flowers of both Vernal (Hamamelis vernalis) and Chinese (H. mollis) witchhazel bloom on mild sunny days in the Jenkins Daylily, English Woodland and Japanese Gardens. A few intermedia hybrids (Hamamelis x intermedia) are also beginning to bloom.

• A few clumps of Giant snowdrop (Galanthus elwesii) are blooming in the Mausoleum and English Woodland Gardens.

• Fruits of some hollies remain showy at this time. Especially noteworthy is the clump of Winterberry (Ilex verticillata ‘Afterglow’) behind the Henry Shaw and Bench sculpture just north of Tower Grove Manor.

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