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Lilies are flowering in many locations around the Garden including the two bulb gardens as well as the Kemper Center.
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The Japanese iris in the Japanese Garden continues. The sacred lotus will be starting around the end of the week.
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Roses are still flowering in many locations around the Garden including our two rose gardens.
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Southern magnolias are still flowering and elderberry has begun. 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 still 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 in full-flower as is one of the Plants of Merit, bottlebrush buckeye.
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Daylilies are beginning to flower. They would 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 some St. John's worts including 'Hidcote'.
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One of the earliest of the ornamental grasses to flower is feather reed grass. You will also see Ural false spirea and purple coneflowers.
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Oakleaf hydrangeas are in full flower and in the Japanese Garden the combination of baloon flower with butterfly weed is striking.
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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 is spectacular.
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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 in full flower.
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In the Kemper Center's flower trial area the Shasta daisy 'Sunny Side Up' is lovely as is Stokes' aster 'Peach Melba'. In the Woodland Garden the gooseneck loosestrife is charming, but beware. This aggressive grower can take over your garden!
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Bear's breeches is an unusual and lovely plant. 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 is growing rapidly 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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Two interesting plants to see near the Kemper Center for Home Gardening when you stop by for lunch are the pitcher plants and the mint-shrub.
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