Circle Garden and English Garden

Circle Garden and More

 

 

The Chicago Botanic Garden consists of 30 different gardens.
The "Circle Garden" is one of the premier areas to show off splendid plants.

This year they combined mums and dahlias and tibouchina and zinnias with

decorative grasses and kale and cabbages.

 

 

 

 

These are "tibouchina" or "Princess Flowers" with deep purple blossoms and large

velvety soft leaves.

 

 

 

 

The "Apricot Courtier" chrysanthemum was being specially featured and used.

 

 

 

 

Every part of the garden was a showcase.

 

 

 

 

The most unusual of the dahlias were on display here.

My favorite this year is "Brittany Rey," which can have many variations.

 

 

 

 

How is this for a gorgeous "Brittany Rey?"  I couldn't stop taking pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

"Bahama Mama" is another of my favorite dahlias.

 

 

 

Orange "Pompon Mums" were spread around the garden.

 

 

 

 

The "Sensory Garden" is built along a path around a hill and through the woods.

Here you are encouraged to enjoy the variety of aromas and colors and

textures.

 

 

 

 

These are "Outrageous Orange" mums.

 

 

 

 

A bed of blue and lavender milka asters.

 

 

 

 

"Indian Summer Mums"

"Clara Curtis Mums"

Yellow Garden Mums

Dinner Plate Pink Dahlia

Purple and White Dahlia

The "English Walled Garden" actually has six sections to it and a great variety
of flowers in beds and along walls.  This is the "Cucumber Leaf Sunflower."

This is the "Cucumber Leaf Spider Sunflower."

Anemones of several varieties graced the gardens.
These are White Anemones.

White Anemones.

Pink Anemones.

White and Yellow Lantana

Black-Eyed Susans and Hot Pink Zinnias

A pot of White Mums in the Wedding Pavilion.  All the flowers here are white.
(Except for the pale blue asters behind them.)

White Dinner Plate Dahlia

Pink Dinner Plate Dahlia.  There was a large bed of these in the Aquatic Garden.

Purple and White Passion Flower Vinc

Corkscrew Flower Vine.  I have never seen this before.  It is a vine which covered
a wall and then continued climbing all the way to the top of the trees.  It was
covered with these white, purple, and yellow corkscrew-like flowers.

Guernsey Lilies

Variegated Morning Glory Vine

"Sweet William" of the Dianthus family.

Variegated Morning Glory Vine

"Floss Flower" of the Ageratum family.  This bush stood about 2 feet tall.

Beds of Yellow-and-White Mums in the Enabling Garden.


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I hope you have enjoyed this virtual walk through one of the finest
Autumn Botanical gardens in the world on a sunny October day.




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