What's in Bloom
Late May
The end of May is a delightful time to be in Carl Schurz Park. The colors dazzle, the endless array of beautiful blooms is often breathtaking and everything feels fresh and new.
Here are some highlights of our Park this week.
Along the Esplanade
Amur Honeysuckle
Lonicera maackii
Also along Playground Walk – both sides
False Indigo
Baptisia australis
Siberian Iris
Iris sibirica
Variegated Sweet Iris
Iris pallida ‘Variegata’
Bearded Iris
Iris
Amsonia Spiderwort
Amsonia Tradescantia
Catmint
Nepeta
Peonies
Paeonia
China Rose
Rosa chinensis ‘mutabilis’
Knock Out© Roses
Rosa
Pram Stairs North
Snowball Viburnum
Viburnum opulus ‘Snowball’
Playground Walk
Scarlet Firethorn
Pyracantha coccinea
Kousa Dogwood
Cornus kousa
Double File Viburnum
Viburnum plicatum
Flower of Double File Viburnum
Viburnum plicatum
Solomon’s Seal
Polygonatum odoratum
Hockey Court Walkway
White Out © Roses
Rosa ‘White Out’
Black Locust
Robinia pseudoacacia
A sampling of Hawthornes
Common Hawthorne
Crataegus monogyna
Peter Pan Circle
Winter King Hawthorne
Crataegus viridis ‘Winter King’
Hillside Lawn at edge of Esplanade
Hawthorne
Crataegus
West Edge of South Woodland Hill
Lastly, a surprise. Abelias have been in our Park since the mid 1930’s, but the Fragrant Abelia is new to us. There is one under the London Plane tree in the Peter Pan Circle and another at the east end of Polly Gordon Walk on the north side, almost at the center line of the Hockey Court. The fragrance will startle you.
Fragrant Abelia
Abelia mosanensis
Photos by: Susan Bernstein, Judy Howard, Pat Nadosy, Ralph Soll.