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Late-flowering azaleas are looking very nice throughout the Garden and some evergreen rhododendrons are starting to bloom. The doublefile viburnums were hard hit by the frost so only a few have any flowers. Irises are still just starting to come into flower.
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Red buckeye, horsechestnut, and empress tree continue in flower.
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Kousa dogwood, spireas and ninebark will start this week.
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Spiderworts are a bit slow, but wild geranium and blue star are starting.
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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 beautiful, but some may consider the plant invasive as it will reseed throughout your garden.
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Hydranges were hard hit by the late frost and we don't expect many if any flowers on our oakleaf and climbing hydrangeas.
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Three trumpet honeysuckle cultivars all planted together in the Kemper Center's Herb Garden are striking.
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Don't miss the charming lily of the valley and the gorgeous Chinese ground orchid. Clematis are beginning to flower.
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A wonderful woody plant to note is the Carolina allspice. Be sure and smell its fragrant flowers. Weigelas and beautybush are also in flower.
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Other perennials still in flower are lungworts, wood phlox and small Solomon's seal.
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The mountain bluet in the Strassenfest Garden is still striking and the bleeding heart in the Kemper Secret Garden is charming.
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Our pansies came through the 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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The flowering bulbs are past peak but there are still very lovely late tulips and wonderful flowering onions in flower. Around the Garden you will see Spanish bluebells in several locations.
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The herbaceous peonies in the Japanese Garden will be starting this week.
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