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Summer bedding plants are rapidly being replaced with mums, pansies and other fall-blooming plants. Hanging baskets of mums are also showing up all over the Garden.
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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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In the bulb gardens the dahlias are loving the cooler temperatures. Caladiums and gladiolus can still be seen.
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Also, don't miss the spectacular alocasias, colocasias and xanthosomas, which will be showy until the first frost usually around October 15th.
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Liriope has mostly finished blooming. Salvia guaranitica has been flowering all summer but now it is especially showy in combination with orange fall colors.
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Be sure and look for the wonderful toad lilies. Also don't miss the spectacular hyacinth bean in the Kemper herb garden.
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Crape myrtles continue in flower and add bright colors to fall.
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Roses continue with their fall display. Some summer annuals will remain until frost.
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The blue cardinal flower is still striking in the Woodland Garden. You can also enjoy the lovely yellow sage growing there as well.
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The ornamental grasses remain lovely. Some bluebeards are still in flower.
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Butterfly bushes will continue to bloom until frost and some miscanthus will display their showy panicles until late winter.
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Rose of Sharons continue and the red berries on the prickly ash are striking.
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Turtlehead continues and the goldenrods are flowering. Plumbago can still be found in flower.
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The seven-son flower is past peak. The beautyberries have attractive, showy fruit.
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Fall asters are flowering throughout the Garden and are lovely. You can find short, ground hugging ones like the lovely heath aster as well as many mid-sized varieties.
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In the Kemper Center Bird Garden you can still enjoy scarlet rose mallow. You will also see a great crop of red berries on the winterberry, which will provide many months of winter color.
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Tropical waterlilies continue. Don't miss the impressive Amazon water lily.
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In the Prairie Garden the combination of New England asters, goldenrods and willow-leaved sunflower is striking.
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In shady areas you can still enjoy the hardy begonia. In sunny areas look for the showy stonecrops.
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Several of the Japanese anemones are still in flower and the blue salvia is still gorgeous. Monk's-hood is flowering in the Ottoman Garden. It has very striking and unusual flowers.
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Some summer annuals you will still see are begonias, ageratum and pentas.
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You will also still see Chinese hibiscus, mandevilla, and impatiens.
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