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Azaleas are in full flower throughout the Garden and are stunning. Hawthorns are also now in flower. The irises are just beginning.
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Red buckeye, horsechestnut, and empress tree are three showy trees to note.
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Among the shrubs don't miss the slender deutzia and the black chokeberry. A large shrub or small tree of note is the fringetree.
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Blueberries are flowering now. The tasty fruit loved by both humans and birds, will ripen in July.
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Some noteworthy native herbaceous perennals in flower now are spiderwort, wild geranium and blue star.
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Columbine and some early coral bells are beginning to flower as is an early flowering sage, 'Viola Klose'.
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Don't miss the lovely Fremont's leather flower in the Kemper Center's rock garden. Snowdrop anemone is a rhizomatous plant that forms spreading patches. Its lovely white flowers are always welcome.
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Several viburnums are in flower. Of note are the lantanaphyllum viburnum, nannyberry, and the doublefile viburnum.
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The wisteria in the Japanese Garden is past peak but the tree peonies are in full flower. A few early, single-flowered herbaceous peonies have opened, but peak bloom will not be until about the first week in May.
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In the Kemper Center's Native Missouri Woodland Garden check out the unusual flowers of the paw paw. Golden ragwort and celendine poppy are turning the garden bright yellow.
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A wonderful woody plant to note is the Carolina allspice. Be sure and smell its fragrant flowers. There are also some weigelas starting to flower.
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Other perennials still in flower are fairy bells, Jacob's ladder, and small Solomon's seal.
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Also look for lungworts flowering as well as Siberian bugloss. Bleeding hearts continue to look lovely.
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You will also see woodland phlox as well as creeping phlox. The mountain bluet in the Strassenfest and Boxwood Gardens is spectacular.
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The ground cover, Vinca minor, is flowering. Don't miss the spring flowering bulbs in the Mausoleum area. The area is filled with Spanish bluebells.
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The flowering dogwoods are in full flower and lilacs will continue to perfume the Garden for a short while.
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Our pansies came through the mild winter very well and are making lovely displays throughout the Garden including in the Kemper Center's Pansy Trial Beds. Many spring-flowering annuals, such as toadflax are flowering nicely in beds and containers.
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Two long-flowering herbaceous perennials of note that continue in flower are Virginia bluebells and pasque flower.
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Also of note are candytuft and bugleweed.
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The flowering bulbs are past peak but there are still very lovely late flowering daffodils and other bulbs in the bulb gardens. Around the Garden you will see Spanish bluebells and camassia in flower.
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