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Fall color is late this year. It is just beginning. Some plants to watch for color are sassafras, dogwood, and ashes. Some maples are also beginning to show color. In about two weeks the Garden will be bright colors of yellow, orange, and red.
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Mums continue and pansies have been planted throughout the Garden for fall as well as spring bloom. Several hanging baskets of mums are still showy.
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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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Salvia guaranitica has been flowering all summer but now it is especially showy. Mexican bush sage and pineapple sage are lovely late-flowering salvias.
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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. In the Japanese garden, the mum display is still well worth the walk to view.
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Roses will continue with their fall display up to frost. Some summer annuals will also remain until frost, after which they will be replaced with spring-blooming bulbs.
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The blue cardinal flower is still attractive in the Woodland Garden and the beautyberries still have attractive, showy fruit.
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The ornamental grasses remain lovely. Don't miss the lovely willow-leaved sunflower 'First Light' in the Kemper Bird Garden.
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Butterfly bushes will continue with sparse bloom until frost but some miscanthus will display their showy panicles until late winter.
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Turtlehead continues with a few last flowers and the goldenrods are still flowering.
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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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In the Prairie Garden the combination of the asters, goldenrods and willow-leaved sunflower is striking.
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Several of the Japanese anemones are still in flower. 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, vincas, and pentas.
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You will also still see Chinese hibiscus, mandevilla, and impatiens.
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