Highlights: As summer stretches on, rose-of-Sharon (Hibiscus), panicled hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata), clethra (Clethera spp.), and lilies (Lilium spp.) are coming into bloom across the gardens. There are a number of especially dazzling examples of these lilies throughout the Garden’s grounds this week: the aptly named Lilium ‘Tricolor’ in the triangular back bed of the Lerner Visitor Center gardens, the cluster of lemon-yellow Lilium ‘Felino’ growing in the Great Lawn, and the tall deep magenta blooms of Lilium ‘Borello’ in the Lerner Garden of the Five Senses.
Emory Welcome Gardens
1) Pink Fascinator purple coneflower – Echinacea purpurea ‘Pink Fascinator’
2) Butterfly™ Rainbow Marcella coneflower – Echinacea ‘Rainb299’
3) Edge of Night calla lily – Zantedeschia ‘Edge of Night’
4) Sun Panda daylily – Hemerocallis ‘Sun Panda’
5) Tricolor lily – Lilium ‘Tricolor’
6) Little Angel great burnet – Sanguisorba officinalis var. microcephala ‘Little Angel’
7) Double Blue balloon flower – Platycodon × (Double Blue)
![Tricolor lily – Lilium ‘Tricolor’ Tricolor lily, a pink, white, and yellow lily surrounded by pink hydrangea](https://www.mainegardens.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CMBG-1497-200x300.jpg)
Butterfly House
1) Great coneflower – Rudbeckia maxima
2) JOSEPHINE clematis – Clematis ‘Evijohill’
3) Early-flowering goldenrod – Solidago juncea
4) White turtlehead – Chelone glabra
5) Invincibelle Mini Mauvette® smooth hydrangea – Hydrangea arborescens ‘NCHA7’
6) Peter Cottontail sneezewort – Achillea ptarmica ‘Peter Cottontail’
![Invincibelle Mini Mauvette® smooth hydrangea - Hydrangea arborescens 'NCHA7' Deep pink flowering hydrangea surrounded by green leaves](https://www.mainegardens.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CMBG-1406-200x300.jpg)
Pond Garden
1) Daydream smokebush – Cotinus coggygria ‘Daydream’
2) FIRST EDITIONS® GREAT STAR panicled hydrangea – Hydrangea paniculata ‘Le Vasterival’
3) Supreme™ Cantaloupe coneflower – Echinacea ‘Cantaloupe’
4) BERRY WHITE® panicled hydrangea – Hydrangea paniculata ‘Renba’
5) POLAR BALL™ panicled hydrangea – Hydrangea paniculata ‘WRHPBB2’
6) Nodding wild onion – Allium cernuum
7) Blue Chiffon® rose-of-Sharon – Hibiscus syriacus ‘Notwoodthree’ Blue Chiffon®
Café Walk
1) Summer Beauty ornamental onion – Allium ‘Summer Beauty’
2) Limelight panicled hydrangea – Hydrangea paniculata ‘Limelight’
3) Leopard plant – Ligularia japonica
4) WILD SWAN™ anemone – Anemone ‘MACANE001’
5) Millenium ornamental onion – Allium × ‘Millenium’
6) Allan P. McConnell hosta – Hosta ‘Allan P. McConnell’
Great Lawn
1) Great coneflower – Rudbeckia maxima
2) Zora lily – Lilium ‘Zora’
3) Unexpected Extra daylily – Hemerocallis ‘Unexpected Extra’
4) Meadow rue – Thalictrum rochebruneanum
5) Gateway spotted Joe-Pye weed – Eutrochium maculatum ‘Gateway’
6) Purple coneflower – Echinacea purpurea
7) Showy milkweed – Asclepias speciosa
8) Felino lily – Lilium ‘Felino’
Lerner Garden of the Five Senses
1) Danielle garden phlox – Phlox paniculata ‘Danielle’
2) Borrello lily – Lilium ‘Borrello’
3) Pyromania® Hot and Cold red-hot poker – Kniphofia ‘Hot and Cold’
4) Miss Manners obedient plant – Physostegia virginiana ‘Miss Manners’
5) Lucifer crocosmia – Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’
6) Golden Stargazer lily – Lilium ‘Golden Stargazer’
7) Angelica – Angelica gigas
8) Goldsturm orange coneflower – Rudbeckia fulgida ‘Goldsturm’
![Goldsturm orange coneflower - Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm' Goldsturm orange coneflower, a group of yellow-orange coneflowers](https://www.mainegardens.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CMBG-1520-300x200.jpg)
Slater Forest Pond
1) Assorted water lily cultivars – Nymphaea spp.
2) Quick Fire panicled hydrangea – Hydrangea paniculata ‘Bulk’ Quick Fire
3) Leopard plant – Ligularia japonica
4) Great blue lobelia – Lobelia siphilitica
Cleaver Lawn
1) Dahurian gentian – Gentiana dahurica
2) Drops of Jupiter ornamental oregano – Origanum ‘Drops of Jupiter’
3) RUBY STAR purple coneflower – Echinacea ‘Rubinstern’
4) Robustissima grape-leaf anemone – Anemone tomentosa ‘Robustissima’
5) White Swan coneflower – Echinacea purpurea ‘White Swan’
6) Blue Satin Rose-of-Sharon – Hibiscus syriacus ‘Marina’
7) Cinnamon clethra – Clethra acuminata
Reiser Woodland Garden
1) Shredded umbrella plant – Syneilesis aconitifolia
2) Munchkin oakleaf hydrangea – Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Munchkin’
3) Lakeside Shore Master hosta – Hosta ‘Lakeside Shore Master’
4) Polly Spout pinellia – Pinellia ‘Polly Spout’
5) Veratrum – Veratrum formosanum
Arbor Garden
1) Tea of heaven – Platycrater arguta
2) Downy skullcap – Scutellaria incana
3) Herbstsonne coneflower – Rudbeckia ‘Herbstsonne’
4) Permathread™ Shades of rose tickseed – Coreopsis ‘Shades of Rose’
5) Lesser tiger lily – Lilium leichtlinii
6) Japanese clethra – Clethra barbinervis
7) Sunny Azores lily – Lilium ‘Sunny Azores’
Haney Hillside Garden
1) Kobold Original dense blazing star – Liatris spicata ‘Kobold Original’
2) Purple coneflower – Echinacea purpurea
3) Cardinal flower – Lobelia cardinalis
4) Pinky Pollen Ring™ smooth hydrangea – Hydrangea arborescens ‘SMHALP’
5) Culver’s root – Veronicastrum virginicum
Vayo Meditation Garden
1) Plumleaf azalea – Rhododendron prunifolium
2) Ghost Japanese painted fern – Athyrium ‘Ghost’
3) Steeplebush – Spiraea tomentosa
4) Burgundy Lace Japanese painted fern – Athyrium niponicum ‘Burgundy Lace’
5) WILD SWAN™ anemone – Anemone ‘MACANE001’
Giles Rhododendron and Perennial Garden
1) Annabelle smooth hydrangea – Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’
2) Sprite astilbe – Astilbe simplicifolia ‘Sprite’
3) Paul’s Glory hosta – Hosta ‘Paul’s Glory’
4) Japanese painted fern – Athyrium niponicum ‘Pictum’
5) Rhino Hide hosta – Hosta ‘Rhino Hide’
Bibby and Harold Alfond Children’s Garden
1) Gold Medal water lily – Nymphaea ‘Gold Medal’
2) Lilac Squirrel burnet – Sanguisorba hakusanensis ‘Lilac Squirrel’
3) Invincibelle Spirit smooth hydrangea – Hydrangea arborescens ‘NCHA1’
4) Various coneflower species – Echinacea spp.
5) SNOW FLAKE oakleaf hydrangea – Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Brido’ SNOW FLAKE
6) Baja daylily – Hemerocallis ‘Baja’
7) Nelly Moser Clematis – Clematis ‘Nelly Moser’
8) Downy skullcap – Scutellaria incana
9) Honeysong Purple Stokes’ aster – Stokesia laevis ‘Honeysong Purple’
10) Blue Chiffon® rose-of-Sharon – Hibiscus syriacus ‘Notwoodthree’ Blue Chiffon®
![Blue Chiffon® rose-of-Sharon - Hibiscus syriacus 'Notwoodthree' Blue Chiffon® Blue Chiffon® rose-of-Sharon, a blue-purple flowering rose-of-sharon tree/bush, close up image of the flower](https://www.mainegardens.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CMBG-1527-200x300.jpg)
Burpee Kitchen Garden
1) California poppy – Eschscholzia californica subsp. californica
2) Dill – Anethum graveolens
3) Green Twister purple coneflower – Echinacea purpurea ‘Green Twister’
4) Drumstick allium – Allium sphaerocephalon
5) Tiara lily – Lilium ‘Tiara’
6) Zebrina striped mallow – Malva sylvestris ‘Zebrina’
Education Center Gardens
1) Rattlesnake-master – Eryngium yuccifolium
2) Bressingham Doubloon false sunflower – Heliopsis ‘Bressingham Doubloon’
3) Slender mountain mint – Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
4) Eastern beebalm – Monarda bradburiana
5) Blue monkshood – Aconitum uncinatum
6) Sputnik buttonbush – Cephalanthus occidentalis ‘Sputnik’