Summer Snowflakes

"Juno" Dwarf Iris, about 7 inches tall

"Summer Snowflakes"

"Summer Snowflakes"

"Pink Sunrise" Grape Hyacinths

"Magic Blue" Grape Hyacinths

"Magic White" Grape Hyacinths

Greek Anemones  /  Windflowers

"Lemon Yellow Nemesia."  They worked wonderfully in a border or a box or

in a hanging basket.

"Raspberry Swirl" Nemesia

"Golden Nugget" Nemesia

"Plum Pretty" Nemesia

"Shooting Stars" Nemesia in a hanging basket

Yellow Frittalary  / Crown Imperial

Yellow Frittalary  / Crown Imperial

Pink Forest Primroses

"Spicy Orange" Primroses

"Red Confetti" Primroses

"Yellow Pallas Forest Primroses"

One of 20 planters in the Heritage Garden with tulips, daffodils, yellow nemesia,

and orange pansies and primroses.

"White Ballerina" Armeria - perfect balls of white petals

Blue and White Cineraria.  Usually they are delicate little plants at the florist,

but this pot was huge and hardy.

White Bleeding Hearts

White English Daisies, small little cushions of soft petals.

Purple Allium, a relative of the onion.

A hanging basket with nemesia, pansies, and Million Bells.

A clump of Senecio, a relative of asters and daisies.

Purple Korean Rhododendrons in the Japanese Garden.  This was the best we have

ever seen the Japanese Garden, perfectly trimmed and very colorful.

Pink Azaleas in the Japanese Garden.

Pink Azaleas in the Azalea and Rhododendron garden

Poppy Anemones in a raised bed in the Enabling Garden, which shows people how to have 

a small garden if you live in a small space or if you are handicapped.

Red and blue Poppy Anemones

Blue Poppy Anemones

Icelandic Poppies - completely different family.  Big delicate flowers on very

thin wire-like stems.

Icelandic Poppies.  There were several thousand on a hillside by the lake; they were

planted by volunteers last fall.

Here you can see the thin stems of the Icelandic Poppies, along with blue pansies.

Pair of Icelandic Poppies.  The variety is "Champagne Bubbles."

A bed of Persian Buttercups  /  Ranunculus

Pueple and White Persian Buttercups.  They look like peonies or big roses.

Orange Persian Buttercups

Yellow Persian Buttercups

Glorious Purple Persian Buttercup.  They are used in beds, in borders, and in planters.

Pink Persian Buttercups


That's all for the Chicago Botanic Gardens in Spring 2015.


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