What's in Bloom at the Chicago Botanic Garden
August 1, 2003

Main Gardens Island Gardens Outlying Gardens

Native Habitats The Greenhouses

Hollyhock	Lily	Roses	Coneflower
Our summer floral displays are a delight to the senses. Welcome to a world of fragrant roses, waterlilies and lotus, late-summer shrubs such as hydrangeas and glorious perennial beds. Stay a little longer and check out some of the more unusual flowers that make up our brilliant displays. In the Prairie, compass plants, with their yellow daisy flowers, tower above all the other colorful native flowers. At the other extreme, in McDonald Woods you will find tall agrimony, a plant with tiny yellow flowers the size of a pinhead. The Enabling Garden features satiny pink and white tree mallows. The Sensory Garden has many seldom-seen plants including shredded umbrella plant, chocolate cosmos, strawberry foxtails and naranjilla, a nightshade with prickly leaves. In the Circle Garden is the most recent flowering tobacco introduction, Nicotiana mutabilis, with flowers that open white, then change to pink and purple. Take your time and see what you can discover at the Chicago Botanic Garden.