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Lilies are past peak but still a few late bloomers are showy. Daylilies continue.
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Some Pee Gee hydrangeas are blooming as well as the lovely 'Little Lamb' hydrangea.
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Roses continue in many locations including our two rose gardens.
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Southern magnolias still have fragrant flowers and the flowers on the golden raintrees have turned into inflated seed pods. Crape myrtles are beginning to flower.
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Summer sweet is starting as is Hydrangea 'Tardiva'. Most of the bottlebrush buckeye plants have finished flowering but a few are still in bloom.
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Butterfly bush is blooming and Russian sage and abelia continue.
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Three very showy rose of Sharon's in flower are 'Diana', 'Minerva', and 'Aphrodite'.
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Many beebalms are flowering and plumbago has started in some locations.
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Rattlesnake master is an ususual plant and many cultivars of purple coneflowers as well as other coneflowers are in flower.
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Meadow rue is attractive and balloon flower continues. The large-flowering herbaceous mallows are impressive.
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In the bulb gardens you will see gladiolus, agapanthus and crinums.
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Most of the clematis have finished their spring flush of flowers but serveral cultivars will repeat flowering throughout the summer. Most astilbes are past, but the Chinese astilbe is still showy. Blackberry lily is starting.
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At the Kemper Center the giant hysop cultivar 'Honey Bee Blue' is most atractive and the flowers of the flat sea holly and globe thistle are very attractive.
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In the Kemper Center's prairie and butterfly gardens you will see Culver's root, western ironweed, and Joe Pye weed.
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Tropical waterlilies are beginning to bloom. The lovely spires of blazing star are dramatic. Many garden phlox are flowering.
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In the Kemper Center's herb garden three cultivars of trumpet honeysuckle planted next to each other are still showy.
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Oxeye daisy brings bright yellow flowers to summer and the speedwells bring colors ranging from white to pink to blue. Hostas are mostly grown for their foliage but they also have attractive flowers. Some are still in flower.
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Mimosa is still in flower around town and the chaste trees at the Garden are magnificent.
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Our summer annuals trial bed is in full flower and other summer flowering annuals, including vincas and petunias, are flowering 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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An attractive native woodland flower is black cohosh. It adds charm to any woodland setting. You will also see the colorful leaves of caladiums in many shady locations.
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