Garden mums (Chrysanthemum spp.) are blooming in many locations
on the grounds.
Roses in both the Gladney and Lehmann Rose Gardens are still showy.
Tropical waterlilies are blooming in the pools in the Milles Sculpture
Garden. The fruity fragrance of the Victoria waterlilies perfumes the
evening air.
Annuals throughout the grounds are at their peak of summer growth. The
Elephant ear's (Colocasia spp.) in the Tropical Garden at the
Kemper Center for Home Gardening have attained a most impressive stature.
The sweet aroma of the Fragrant olive trees (Osmanthus fragrans)
wafts through and out from the Linnean House ¼ you can smell them fifty
feet away! Colorful impatiens and begonias carpet the ground beneath the
budding camellia trees.
The carnivorous plant bog in the Shoenberg Temperate House is particularly
beautiful right now, featuring new luminescent pitchers of the white-topped
Pitcher plant (Sarracenia leucophylla) and the beautiful twisted
blossoms of the Ladies tresses orchids (Spiranthes odorata var.
cernua).
It's not unusual to see some scattered blooms at this time of year in the
Lopata Azalea and Rhododendron Garden as temperatures and day length
approximate conditions of the normal spring flowering season. Buds that
open and bloom now will not flower again next spring.
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