About This BlogThis blog is a partnership between our Interpretive and Grounds & Maintenance teams. Here, you can learn what is blooming in the Gateway Arch National Park gardens. This blog will be updated regularly during the growing season. 9/22/2022: It's officially fall, but the gardens are still flowery
September 22, 2022
Buckeye nuts, Butterfly Milkweed, Aromatic Aster, Common Goldenrod, Downy Skullcap, Japanese Anemone, Purple Mist, and Rudbeckia spp August 2022: Not a lot going on at the moment
August 22, 2022
Blue Vervain, Northern Catalpa (pods), Downy Skullcap, Swamp Milkweed, Whorled Milkweed, Red Sage, Carolina Rose (hips), Roughleaf Dogwood (fruits), American Beautyberry (berries). 7/24/2022: Mid-season Natives Coming in Strong
July 24, 2022
Purple Passionflower, Purple Joe-Pye Weed, Virginia Sweetspire, Asiatic Dayflower, Prairie Dropseed, Common Snowberry, Aromatic Aster, Purple Mist, and Orange Coneflower. 7/4/2022: American Flowers on America's Birthday
July 04, 2022
Dense Blazing Star, Bee Balm, Red Sage, Downy Skullcap, Little Bluestem, Yellow Coneflower, and Showy Partridge-Pea 6/20/2022: Prairie Flowers Coming in!
June 21, 2022
Big Betony, Daylilies, Fragrant Sumac, Common Milkweed, Missouri Coneflower, Blue Vervain, Purple Poppy Mallow. 6/1/2022: Welcome to Summer
June 01, 2022
Elegans hota, Goat's Beard, Oak Leaf Hydrangea, Virginia Sweetspire, Purple Coneflower, and Roughleaf Dogwood. 5-18-2022: White Blooms Everywhere!
May 18, 2022
Featured species: Bloody Cranesbill, False Solomon's Seal, Oak Leaf Hydrangea, Blue False Indigo, Wild Onion, Windflower, Mock Orange, Northern Catalpa, Yarrow, and Daisy Fleabane. 5-4-2022: Buckeyes, Crabapples, and Lots of Perennials
May 04, 2022
Update of Gateway Arch National Park's most notable blooming plants on May 4, 2022. Featured are red and yellow buckeyes, doublefile viburnum, jacob's ladder, winter king hawthorn, pawpaw, radiant and snowdrift crabapples, robin's plantain, wild hyacinth, and golden alexander. Information about teach species is shared. 4-13-2022: The Redbuds are coming!
April 13, 2022
Eastern redbud, various magnolias, roundleaf ragwort, lesser periwinkle, spicebushes, vibernum, redspire callery pear, sassafras, serviceberries. Blog includes pictures and information about each blooming species. 3/16/2022: Cornus officinalis and Acer rubrum
March 16, 2022
The first two blooms of the 2022 growing season: Cornus officinalis and Acer rubrum. |
Last updated: November 14, 2021