What's in Bloom

What's in Bloom at the Chicago Botanic Garden
September 1, 2010  

There's plenty to love in September at the Chicago Botanic Garden.

PHOTO: Shooting star As the rain falls and temperatures cool down, the flowers perk up, especially in the Rose Garden. It's your last chance to see the summer annual displays at the Crescent Garden and Circle Garden, before chrysanthemums and asters herald the autumn season. Visitors love the waterlilies and cannas in the Heritage Garden, the big butterfly bush collection in the Lavin Plant Evaluation Garden and the annuals in the English Oak Meadow — as colorful as a box of new crayons. They marvel at more unusual flowers, such as the balloon plants and 12-foot-tall dahlias in the Heritage Garden pools, and the huge thicket of Dallas Blues switchgrass on Evening Island. Enjoy the bountiful displays at the Chicago Botanic Garden.

MAIN ISLAND

Aquatic Garden
Bulb Garden
Circle Garden
Dwarf Conifer Garden
Enabling Garden
English Oak Meadow
English Walled Garden
Esplanade
Heritage Garden
Lakeside Gardens
Landscape Gardens
McGinley Pavilion
Native Plant Garden
Rose Garden
Sensory Garden
Water Gardens
Waterfall Garden

GREENHOUSES

Semitropical
Greenhouse

Tropical Greenhouse

Arid Greenhouse

ISLAND GARDENS

Evening Island

Fruit & Vegetable Garden

Japanese Garden

NATIVE HABITATS

McDonald Woods

Dixon Prairie

Skokie River

OUTLYING GARDENS

East Road

Sun Plant
Evaluation Garden

Shade Plant Evaluation Garden

Front Entrance

Gatehouse & Parking Lots

Gateway Visitor Center

Plant Conservation Science Center