What’s in Bloom

Tall spike of yellow flowers emerging from a glass roof

Featured Bloom

Century-plant              

Agave americana                                                        

The century-plant is a succulent perennial that blooms once in its life after living 10-25 years. The single flower stalk reaches 15-30 feet or more in height and produces yellow bloom clusters. The plant will die following its bloom after expending all of its energy to produce the flower. Agave americana is pollinated primarily by bats in its native habitat in Mexico. 

See what’s in bloom … and enjoy the beauty of our Gardens.

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  • Ornamental Carrot

    Daucus carota ′Dara′

    You may be familiar with the common roadside wildflower Queen Anne's lace, also known as wild carrot, with a flat-topped cluster of white flowers, reminiscent of lace. This ornamental selection, 'Dara', produces flowers from light pink to purple-red. Along with its fine textured foliage, which adds a slight airy feel to summer planting beds and borders, ornamental carrot can be used as a cut flower and later in dried arrangements.

  • Culver's-root

    Veronicastrum virginicum

    Native to eastern and central North America, Veronicastrum virginicum is a tall perennial which grows in low meadows, prairies, moist open forests, thickets and along roadsides. Its small white flowers are arranged in a spike up to 8 inches long and will bloom from June through to September. Bees and butterflies are attracted to the plant's pollen and nectar.

  • Bright orange and purple flowers with petals fanning backward like a bird's plume

    Bird-of-paradise

    Strelitzia reginae

    An evergreen perennial with red-edged, banana-like leaves, bird-of-paradise blooms intermittently from summer through to winter. The flowers resemble the head of the crowned crane, hence the common name, crane flower in its native South Africa.  It is named in honor of Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, with the specific epithet reginae meaning ‘of the queen’. The plant can be grown from seeds or division, prefers a loamy soil, and is well adapted to full sun.

  • Light green flower with a fuchsia and yellow lip.

    Orchid

    x Rhyncholaeliocattleya Greenwich 'Elmhurst'

  • Prairie-coneflower

    Ratibida pinnata
  • Coppery leaves and lacy golden flower umbels.

    Bronze Fennel

    Foeniculum vulgare 'Purpureum'
  • Ruffled and cupped flower with many yellow petals.

    Shrub Rose

    Rosa ′WEKaltjuchi′ Edith′s Darling
  • Peachy blooms darkening to a red center.

    Gladiolus

    Gladiolus 'Peter Pears'
  • Orange, rounded petals with round, yellow centers

    Mexican Sunflower

    Tithonia rotundifolia 'Fiesta del Sol'
  • Bright orange flower with blending of lighter orange in the center.

    Informal Decorative Dahlia

    Dahlia 'Neon Splendor'

  • Climbing-lily

    Gloriosa superba ′Rothschildiana′

  • Coneflower

    Echinacea ′Balsomco′ Sombrero Hot Coral 
  • Bright red, trumpet shaped flower with yellow center and 6 peddles

    Daylily

    Hemerocallis 'Johnny Reb'

  • Bee-balm

    Monarda ′Jacob Cline′

  • Anthurium

    Anthurium ′Anthcrao′ Utah (Andreanum Group)
  • Dark raspberry-colored flowers with green stamens.

    Oriental Lily

    Lilium 'Black Beauty'
  • White, pink and lavender flowers.

    Flowering Tobacco

    Nicotiana 'Bella'
  • Spiracle heads of small light purple flowers.

    Ornamental Onion

    Allium ′Millenium′
  • Round, powdery steel-blue flower heads with prickly dark green leaves.

    Globe-thistle

    Echinops bannaticus ′Taplow Blue′
  • Lavender-pink flowering plant with two butterflies.

    Perennial Phlox

    Phlox paniculata 'Jeana'
  • Groups of white flowers with green leaves.

    Wild Hydrangea

    Hydrangea arborescens ssp. radiata
  • Groups of tiny white flower petals.

    Rattlesnake-master

    Eryngium yuccifolium
  • Light pink and white petaled flowers.

    White Gaura

    Oenothera lindheimeri ′Whirling Butterflies′
  • White flowers with green leaves.

    Ceratotheca

    Ceratotheca triloba white-flowered form
  • Tall spike of yellow flowers emerging from a glass roof

    Century-plant              

    Agave americana                                                        

    The century-plant is a succulent perennial that blooms once in its life after living 10-25 years. The single flower stalk reaches 15-30 feet or more in height and produces yellow bloom clusters. The plant will die following its bloom after expending all of its energy to produce the flower. Agave americana is pollinated primarily by bats in its native habitat in Mexico.