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Fall color is peaking with sassafras, dogwood, and burning bush.
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You can also enjoy many maples, witchhazels, and ashes. The fruit on many crabapples is also showy.
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Mums, pansies and other fall-blooming plants have been planted throughout the Garden. Hanging baskets of mums are also showing up all over the Kemper Center gardens.
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Chrysanthemum and mexican bush sage Chrysanthemum 'Yocecilia' CECILIA & Salvia leucantha 'Santa Barbara'
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Swift Vista
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Salvia guaranitica has been flowering all summer but now it is especially showy in combination with orange fall colors. Mexican bush sage is very attractive as is itea.
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Be sure and look for the wonderful toad lilies. And allow enough time to walk through the Japanese garden, the mum display and fall color is well worth the walk to view.
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A few roses continue with their fall display.
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The beautyberries have attractive, showy fruit.
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The ornamental grasses remain lovely. Miscanthus will display their showy panicles until late winter. The red berries on the prickly ash in the Native Garden are striking.
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Fall asters are flowering throughout the Garden and are lovely. You can find short, ground hugging ones like the lovely heath aster as well as many mid-sized varieties.
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In the Kemper Center Bird Garden, you will see a great crop of red berries on the winterberry, which will provide many months of winter color. In the Prairie Garden the combination of New England asters and goldenrods is still showy.
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A few Japanese anemones are still in flower and Monk's-hood in the Ottoman Garden is still striking. It has very unusual flowers.
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A few summer annuals you may still see until a hard frost are begonias, vincas, and petunias.
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