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Highlights in the Garden are fall color and mums. Come and view the striking sassafras near Tower Grove House and enjoy dogwood and burning bush throughout the Garden.
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You can also marvel at the many colors in the maples, witchhazels, and ashes. The fruit on many crabapples is also showy.
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Mums and pansies continue to be showy. The pansies will remain all winter to return in Spring to bloom with the spring bulbs.
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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's last flowers are especially showy in combination with orange fall colors. Mexican bush sage remains in a few locations and is still very attractive as is itea.
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You can still find some of 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 to flower.
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The beautyberries have attractive, showy fruit with a very bright unusual color.
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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 still striking.
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Though past peak, fall asters are flowering throughout the Garden and are lovely. Take note of 'Jindai' and 'Purple Dome'.
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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. The bluestars have very nice fall color and some goldenrods are still showy.
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The Japanese anemones are mostly finished but the Monk's-hood in the Ottoman Garden is still striking. It has very unusual flowers.
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