Poinsettias in Chicago

Chicago is blessed with two large flower conservatories, Garfield Park on the West Side and

Lincoln Park on the East Side.  At this time of the year, they have beautiful poinsettia shows.

Garfield Park emphasized new varieties, and Lincoln Park created a whole world around

miniature trains and poinsettia plants.

The central path in the Showroom Conservatory.  This year they also expanded poinsettias

into the Great Palm Court and the Exhibition Hall.

These days poinsettias are bred in hundreds of different colors with different leaf 

forms and colors also.  These are "Gracious Pink."

Curving petals of salmon-pink and white, irregular.

Each petal has different blotches of white on pink.

"Holly Poinsettia" has petals and leaves strongly notched like an ivy plant.

"Snow Packed Peaks" white poinsettias

"Archie's Delight" has pink petals and variegated leaves.

This bed used pale green geranium plants beside a purple-pink poinsettia.

Two circular beds of colorful poinsettias.

A cascade of traditional red and pink poinsettias.

"Frosted Pink" Poinsettias

"Princess Anne" pale pink poinsettias with leaves edged in white.

Pink and Cream Poinsettias

"Ruffled Pompom Poinsettias"

A  field of red.

"Audrey Hepburn" poinsettia

"North Pole" White Poinsettias

"Ivy Poinsettia"

Salmon Pink "Meaghan Markle" Poinsettias

Close-up of "Meaghan Markle" Poinsettia

"Curly-Petaled" Pink Poinsettia

A field of pink poinsettias

"Celine Dion" Poinsettia

Frosted Pink Poinsettias

New "Orange Sherbet" Poinsettias

Frosted Pink Poinsettias

Variegated Pink Poinsettia

Palest Pink Poinsettia

"Frosty Queen" Poinsettia

"Duchess Kate" Pink Poinsettia

Pink and Cream Poinsettias

"A Touch of Class" Pink Poinsettia with Variegated Leaves

Circular Form White Poinsettia

Speckled Red and White Poinsettia

A visitor and display of poinsettias at the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago.



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Montreal Botanic Gardens 2019 e

The Floral Arch features different flowers each season.

"Golden Nickles"  Dahlia

"RaeAnn's Pollux"  Dahlia, with unusual petals

"Shilo Jazzman"  Dahlia

The Dahlia Garden is one of the richest and most diverse at the Botanical Gardens.

They plant all new varieties every year, so each year we get to enjoy dozens of new

colors and shapes and forms.

"Raspberry Fizz"  Dahlia - a totally new form of petals

"Alberta Sunset"  Dahlia  - with different colors and shaped petals

"Kenora Lisa"  Dahlia

"Granny Norman" Dahlia was a beautiful white, prolifically blooming variety

"Bonnie's Button"  variegated peach dahlia

"Snowflake  White  Dahlia"

"The Archduchess"  Dahlia with unusually shaped and colored petals

"Strawberries and Cream"  Dahlia

A cluster of  "Strawberries and Cream"  Dahlias

"Bloomquiet Cayson"  Dahlia

"Midnight Lady"  Dahlia

"Helen to Betsy"  Dahlia

"Sandia Brocade"  Dahlias.  They combine the flat large outer petals with the tight cluster

petals in the center.

"Sandia Brocade" Dahlias.

"Snowflake" white spiked dahlias

"Flirtation"  Dahlia

"Cheyenne"  White and Yellow Dahlia

"Granny Normal"  Dahlia with full, rounded petals

"Strawberrries and Cream"  and  "Bahama Festival"  Dahlias

Esplanade Gardens and Fountain

"Black-Eyed Susans,"  pergola, and Esplanade

"Sunrise"  pale yellow coneflower

"Sneezeweed"

Close-up of  "Sneezeweed"

"Venti  Golden  Yellow"  Dahlia

"Gaillardia"  "Heat-It-U-Yellow"

Floral Arch and Red/Yellow/Orange Beds

"New York Aster."  This was new to me, but was a beautiful small flower covering

the bush.

A visitor with the Black-Eyed Susans

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