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Lilies are beginning to flower and will be lovely in many locations around the Garden including the two bulb gardens as well as the Kemper Center.
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Roses are still in full-flower in many locations around the Garden including our two rose gardens.
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Southern magnolias and lindens are still flowering. Linden flowers are rather inconspicuous, but if they are close by you will smell their sweet perfume. A tree we get many questions about is the tricolor beech. Though not in flower, the very colorful leaves viewed from a distance gives the tree the appearance of being in bloom.
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Among the shrubs, the heavenly bamboo is flowering. It is not a true bamboo and can be tender in St. Louis, but its evergreen leaves and showy, red winter berries make it a nice plant for a protected area. The beautiful prairie rose is starting to open and the bottlebrush buckeye will be beginning soon.
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Daylilies are beginning to flower. They look lovely combined with Japanese spireas or Stachys 'Hummelo'.
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Some noteworthy native herbaceous perennals continuing in flower are spiderwort and wild geranium. In the Kemper Center's rock garden be sure and see the showy prickly pear cactus.
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Gaura and coral bells are flowering as are many salvias and sages including Salvia transsylvanica.
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Other perennials of note include speedwell, rose campion, and yellow loosestrife.
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Oakleaf hydrangeas are in full flower around the Garden. Penstemon 'Husker Red' is still showy in many locations and the smooth hydrangea is just beginning.
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Yarrows are beginning to flower in many locations along with coreopsis. Either would be striking planted with the lavindin cultivar 'Grosso' in the Kemper Herb Garden, which will be spectacular when it comes into flower this week.
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Clematis are in full-flower as are many of the astilbes.
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The purple poppy mallow has started and the Missouri primrose is still flowering. The trumpet creeper in the Kemper Bird Garden is just beginning to flower.
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Bear's breeches is an unusual and lovely plant that is just beginning. The lovely spikes of red hot poker are dramatic. The charming flowers of the pincushion flower will be around for many more weeks.
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Our summer annuals trail bed has been planted and other summer flowering annuals, including vincas and petunias, have been planted throughout the Garden.
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Other annuals of note are begonias, ageratum and pentas.
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Still others you will see are lantana, heliotrope, and caricature plant.
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Some plants you will see in our summer baskets and containers include Chinese hibiscus, mandevilla, and scaevola.
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The pitcher plants are still attractive and in the Japanese Garden the Japanese iris are in bloom.
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