What's in Bloom

Highlight: Baptisias are exploding with bright color across the gardens! Check out the Fringe Trees blooming in the Cleaver Event Lawn and the Lerner Garden of the Five Senses. Water lilies are just starting to open in the Alfond Children’s Garden.

Pink flowers of Deutzia 'NCDX2' — Deutzia ‘NCDX2’

Lyn and Daniel Lerner Visitor Center Gardens

1) Yuki Cherry Blosson ® Deutzia – Deutzia ‘NCDX2’
2) Southern Charm Mullein – Verbascum ‘Southern Charm’
3) Before the Storm Iris – Iris ‘Before the Storm’
4) DECADENCE® Deluxe Pink Lemonade False Indigo – Baptisia × ‘Pink Lemonade’ (Decadence Series)
5) Shirley Temple Common Garden Peony – Paeonia lactiflora ‘Shirley Temple’
6) Indigo – Indigofera kirilowii

Butterfly House Gardens

Dark pink flowers of Astrantia 'Star of Fire' — Astrantia ‘Star of Fire’

1) Eastern Beebalm – Monarda bradburiana
2) Kahori Pink – Dianthus ‘Kahori’
3) Golden Alexanders – Zizia aurea
4) JOSEPHINE clematis – Clematis ‘Evijohill’
5) Star of Fire Masterwort – Astrantia ‘Star of Fire’

Pond Gardens

1) Blue Ice Blue Star – Amsonia ‘Blue Ice’
2) Color Spires® Indigo Girl Salvia – Salvia x ‘Indigo Girl’
3) Spilled Wine® Weigela – Weigela florida ‘Bokraspiwi’
4) Lucerne Blue-eyed Grass – Sisyrinchium angustifolium ‘Lucerne’
5) TABLE MOUNTAIN® Ice Plant – Delosperma ‘John Profit’
6) Alpenglow Bloody Cranesbill – Geranium sanguineum ‘Alpenglow’
7) Pretty Belinda Yarrow – Achillea millefolium ‘Pretty Belinda’

Purple flower spikes of Salvia x ‘Indigo Girl’ — Salvia x ‘Indigo Girl’

Great Lawn Gardens

White blossoms of Thalictrum petaloideum — Thalictrum petaloideum

1) Yellow Foxglove – Digitalis grandiflora
2) Purple Poppy-mallow – Callirhoe involucrate
3) Thalictrum – Thalictrum petaloideum
4) Addison Leather-flower – Clematis addisonii

Burpee Kitchen Garden

1) Katherine Dykes Shrubby Cinquefoil – Potentilla fruticosa ‘Katherine Dykes’
2) Simply Salad Mixed Lettuce – Lectuca sativa cultivars
3) Allium – Allium spp.
4) Ashe’s Magnolia – Magnolia ashei
5) Singing in the Rain Itoh Peony – Paeonia ‘Singing in the Rain’
6) Screamin’ Yellow False Indigo – Baptisia sphaerocarpa ‘Screamin’ Yellow’

An opening bud of Paeonia 'Singing in the Rain' in orange, coral, and light yellow tones. — Paeonia ‘Singing in the Rain’

Bibby and Harold Alfond Children’s Garden

1) Common Pitcher Plant – Sarracenia purpurea
2) Sheep Laurel – Kalmia angustifolia
3) Blue Star – Amsonia ‘Blue Ice’
4) Garden Angelica – Angelica archangelica
5) Water Lily – Nymphaea ‘Gold Medal’

Light pink flowers of Monarda bradburiana — Monarda bradburiana

Bosarge Family Education Center Gardens

1) Eastern Beebalm – Monarda bradburiana
2) TWILITE PRAIRIEBLUES False Indigo – Baptisia × variicolor ‘Twilite’
3) Canada Anemone – Anemone Canadensis
4) Olympic Fire Mountain Laurel – Kalmia latifolia ‘Olympic Fire’
5) Husker Red Smooth Beard-tongue – Penstemon digitalis ‘Husker Red’

Cleaver Lawn

1) Blanc Double de Courbert Rose – Rosa ‘Blanc Double du Courbet’
2) Gas Plant – Dictamnus albus
3) Fringe Tree – Chionanthus virginicus
4) Plantain Lily – Hosta ‘Paul’s Glory’
5) Heart Throb Dogwood – Cornus kousa ‘Schmred’ Heart Throb
6) Kousa Dogwood – Cornus kousa ‘Moonbeam’

The branches of a dogwood tree covered in pink blossoms against a blue sky. — Cornus kousa ‘Schmred’

Arbor Garden

1) Oh So EasyTM Rose – Rosa Oh So Easy TM
2) Roger’s Flower – Rodgersia sambucifolia
3) Doreen Common Garden Peony – Paeonia lactiflora ‘Doreen’
4) Superba Trumpet Honeysuckle – Lonicera sempervirens ‘Superba’
5) Lillian Gibson Rose – Rosa ‘Lillian Gibson’

An arbor covered in climbing pink roses. — Rosa ‘Lillian Gibson’

Reiser Woodland Garden

1) Japanese Painted Fern – Athyrium niponicum ‘Pictum’
2) Jack–in-the-Pulpit – Arisaema triphylla ssp. stewardsonii ‘Wide Whale Corduroy’
3) Mary Del Coast Azalea – Rhododendron atlanticum ‘Mary Del’
4) Crown Jewel Dogwood – Cornus kousa var. chinensis ‘Madison’ Crown Jewel
5) Plantain Lily – Hosta ‘Lakeside Shore Master’

Haney Hillside Garden

1) Fumewort – Corydalis lutea
2) Hoffman’s Pink Mountain Laurel – Kalmia latifolia ‘Hoffman’s Pink’
3) Snowdrift Mountain Laurel – Kalmia latifolia ‘Snowdrift’
4) Swamp Sweetbells – Eubotrys racemose
5) Husker Red Smooth Beard-tongue – Penstemon digitalis ‘Husker Red’

Clusters of pink mountain laurel flowers. — Kalmia latifolia ‘Hoffman’s Pink’

Vayo Meditation Garden

1) Ghost Fern – Athyrium ‘Ghost’
2) Cinnamon Fern – Osmunda cinnamomea
3) Sango-kaku Japanese Maple – Acer palmatum (Palmatum Group) ‘Sango-kaku’
4) Lady in Red Lady Fern – Athyrium filix-femina ‘Lady in Red’

A white Magnolia sieboldii blossom with a red center. — Magnolia sieboldii

Slater Forest Pond

1) Bilberry Ice Tradescantia – Tradescantia ‘Bilberry Ice’
2) Double Pink Rue Anemone – Thalictrum thalictroides ‘Shoaf’s Double’
3) Oyama Magnolia – Magnolia sieboldii
4) Candelabra Primrose – Primula × bullesiana
5) Showy Lady’s Slipper – Cypripedium reginae
6) Azalea – Rhododendron ‘White Lightning’

Lerner Garden of the Five Senses

Clusters of white blossoms on a mock orange plant. — Philadelphus ‘Snowbelle’

1) Water Lily – Nymphaea ‘Attraction’
2) Axminster Gold Comfrey – Symphytum x uplandicum ‘Axminster Gold’
3) Mock Orange – Philadelphus ‘Snowbelle’
4) Fringe Tree – Chionanthus virginicus
5) Wine and Roses Weigela – Weigela ‘Alexandra’ Wine & Roses
6) Bartzella Itoh Peony – Paeonia ‘Bartzella’
7) Silver Sage – Salvia argentea ‘Hobbit’s Foot’

Giles Rhododendron and Perennial Garden

Large green hosta leaves with thick white stripes down the centers. — Hosta ‘Raspberry Sundae’

1) White Deutzia – Deutzia gracilis ‘Nikko’
2) Kousa Dogwood – Cornus kousa ‘Satomi’
3) Plantain Lily – Hosta ‘Raspberry Sundae’
4) Low Glow Japanese red pine – Pinus densiflora ‘Low Glow’
5) Japanese Painted Fern – Athyrium niponicum ‘Pictum’