Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Spring Flowers in Chicago 2018



The Sensory Garden is laid out on raised beds along a path which encircled a hill.
This was filled with massive collections of brilliantly colored tulips right now;
in the fall it will be filled with chrysanthemums.





Blue pansies, red and white tulips and purple stock.





Orange and white tulips.





Blue Pansies, purple stock, red tulips, and white tulips.





A variety of tulips.





Blue poppy anemones, purple, yellow, red, and orange tulips.





Left deep purple primrose, right blue poppy anemones, Helmar Triumph Tulips.





Helmar Triumph Tulips





Orange primroses and wallflowers; red, yellow, and purple tulips.





"Mona Lisa" Poppy Anemones, wine color.





"Masquerade "Deep Purple Double Tulips, "Clara" purple and white tulips,
"Fringed Fancy" Pink Tulips.





"Fringed Fancy" Tulips





"Clara" Tulips and Purple Stock





Purple Stock and "Fringed Fancy" Tulips





Tulips and Stock





"Helmar Triumph Tulips" and more.





Orange Pot Marigolds, Blue Pansies, red, white, and orange Triumph tulips.





A planter with purple ranunculus and "Spring Delight" tulips.





Purple and blue lupine near the lake





The English Walled Garden with flowering crabapple.





Blue and White Oesteospermum and Orange Bidens.



View of part of the English Walled Garden





Yellow Lupine





"Red Popsicle" Lupine





"Golden Yellow Ranunculus" in a planter.





Icelandic Poppies.





"The Hillside" this spring was covered with 2500 Icelandic poppies, whose bulbs
were planted last fall by volunteers.  We had never seen them so numerous and colorful,
and every one was at peak bloom.





Hillside of Icelandic Poppies





Icelandic Poppies - stand on high stems as thin as a wire.





Orange Icelandic Poppies





Red-Orange Icelandic Poppies





Flowering crabapples line the shore all around the lake.





On one side, near the Icelandic Poppies, two rows are planted to create a tunnel of
white blossoms.





The path under the white flowering crabapple trees.





Blue Delphinium





Harmony Blue Poppy Anemones





Five types of white flowers fill the beds around the "Pavilion," where wedding
receptions take place.  Double White Tulips, White Taper Tulips, Frilled White Tulips,
Mount Tacoma Single White Tulips, and White Pansies.




"Sorbet" Violas.  This is a new variety, which will not go on sale until next year, when
they will have enough seeds available.





"Indigo Blue Forget-Me-Nots."





A border bed by the Rose Garden of "Dream Touch" Double Tulips.




"Dream Touch Double Tulips" in red, orange, and purple, with pale blue pansies.





"Dream Touch Double Purple Tulips."




A visitor along the Woodland Path.
That's a yellow magnolia in back; they are rare.


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