Summer Season

The tulip tree is the first to welcome summer in the botanical garden, with flowers that resemble light yellow tulips. Garden jasmines bloom around this time, and roses begin to bloom. Among the herbaceous plants in the collection areas, hybrid cockscombs, ground cover stonecrops, and lavender bloom in abundance.

Hemerocallis, astilbe, and various "daisies" flower in July, including maroons, pyrethrums, coreopsis, rudbeckia, and echinacea. Annuals, such as marigolds, godetia, clarkia, cosmea, and escholzia, bloom in large numbers. Summer-flowering trees are uncommon, with only kelreiteria, hydrangea, Syrian hibiscus, and buddleia alternifolia providing us with pleasure. Roses and annuals continue to bloom in August. Large cereals (miscanthus, millet, and sorghum) also begin to develop beauty around this time.

The Rock Garden and Rockery exhibits are attractive because of their diverse foliage colours: blue, green, and yellow conifers, red and yellow barbarian leaves, Japanese maples, and forsythia.

Summer is generally hot and dry, so if you're quiet, you can watch birds bathe and drink water from the Mushroom drinking bowls. You can also escape the heat by breathing fresh air in the garden's pine clearing and shady alleys.