Xeriscape Demonstration Garden Seasonal Blooms

In the Aurora Municipal Center Xeriscape Demonstration Garden, flowers are blooming practically year ‘round.

Stop by the Garden and see which blooms you will discover.

Spring blooms can be seen March through May Summer blooms can be seen June through August Autumn blooms can be seen September through November Seasonal Blooms Explanation of Slides and Continuous Blooming Plants:

Some plants in the garden, like oenothera macrocarpa (Missouri evening primrose), bloom for many months, or continually bloom through multiple seasons.

Macrocarpa blooms from June through September in our garden!

For the purposes of this presentation, we list only new blooms each month. That’s why you’ll see macrocarpa in the June slides but not in July, August, etc. even when it’s still blooming in those months. April

Pheasant's Eye Narcissus Cushion Spurge Common Purple Lilac Narcissus poeticus Euphorbia polychroma Syringa vulgaris

Lady Tulip Apeldoorn Tulip Mrs. Scheeper’s Tulip Tulip clusiana ‘Tinka’ Tulipa ‘Apeldoorn’ Tulipa ‘Mrs. Scheeper’s’ April

Pasque Flower Holly Leaved Barberry Anemone pulsatilla Mahonia aquifolium

Chanticleer Pear Carol Macke Daphne Saskatoon Serviceberry Pyrus Calleryana Daphne x burkwoodii Amelanchier alnifolia April

Siberian Pea Shrub Caranga arborescens

Sandcherry Purpleleaf Sandcherry Prunus besseyi Prunus x cistena May

Purple Rock Cress Pawnee Buttes Sandcherry Aubrieta sp. Prunus besseyi ‘Pawnee Buttes’

Korean Barberry Blue Catmint Common White Lilac Berberis koreanis Nepeta x faassenii ‘Select Blue' Syringa sp. ‘Alba’ May

Kingsblood Tulip Mohican Viburnum Scotch Broom Tulipa ‘Kingsblood’ Viburnum lantana 'Mohican‘ Cytisus scoparus

Wooly Veronica Purple Allium Broom Veronica pectinata Allium sp. Genista lydia May

Snow in Summer False Indigo Salvia ‘May Night‘ Cerastium tomentosum Baptisia australis Salvia x sylvestris

Blueleaf Honeysuckle Shasta Daisy Lonicera korowlkowi Leucanthemum sp. June

Wood's Rose Hardy Purple Iceplant Rosa woodsii Delosperma cooperii

Missouri Evening Primrose Red Valerian Jackman Potentilla Oenothera macrocarpa Centranthus ruber Potentilla fruticosa ‘Jackman’ June

Harrison's Yellow Rose Comfrey Rosa x harisonii Symphytum officinalis

Pincushion flower Greek Yarrow Pussytoes Scabiosa sp. Achilliea ageratifolia Antennaria parvifolia June

Sulphur flower Variegated Maiden Grass Common valerian Erigonum umbellatum Miscanthus sinensis ‘Variegatus' Valerianna officinalis

Dwarf Korean Lilac Blanket Flower Ornamental Mullein Syringa meyeri 'Palibin' Gallardia sp. Verbascum 'Summer Charm' June

Morden Rose 'Snow Beauty‘ Oriental Poppy Rosa x 'Morden Snowbeauty' Papaver orientale

Austrian Copper Rose Columbine Rosa foetida ‘Bicolor' Aquilegia sp. June

Pinleaf Penstemon Snowbelle Mock Orange Lady’s Mantle Penstemon pinifolius Philadelphus ‘Snowbelle’ Alchemilla vulgaris

Apage Plume Magnifica Rose Rocky Mountain Penstemon Fallugia paradoxa Rosa rugosa ‘Magnifica’ Penstemon strictus July

Petite Indigo Butterfly Bush Banana Yucca Stella D’oro Daylily Buddleja davidii nanhoensis ‘Petite Indigo’ Yucca baccata Hemerocallis ‘Stella D’oro’

Dwarf Goldenrod Mexican Hat Mexican Hat Solidago sp Ratibida columnifera pulcherrima Ratibida columnifera July

Daylily Butterfly Weed Cranesbill Geranium Hemerocallis sp. Asclepias tuberosa Gernanium sanguineum

Spike Speedwell Staghorn Sumac English Lavender Veronica spicata Rhus typhina Lavandula angustifolia July

Purple Coneflower Sunset Hyssop Jackman Potentilla Echinacea purpurea Agastache rupestris Potentilla fruticosa ‘Jackman'

Fernbush Black-Eyed Susan Russian Sage Chamaebatiar millefolium Rudbeckia fulgida sp. Perovskia atriplicifolia August

Moonbeam Coreopsis Purple Dome New England Aster Coreopsis verticillata Aster novae-angliae ‘Purple Dome’

Desert Four-’o-Clock Joe Pye Weed Blue Mist Spirea Mirabilis multiflora Eupatorium purpureum 'Gateway' Caryopteris clandonensis ‘Black Knight’ August

Texas Red Yucca Dragon’s Blood Stonecrop Hesperaloe parviflora Sedum spurium

Mohican Viburnum Baby Blue Rabbitbrush Oriental Lily ‘Casa Blanca’ Viburnum lantana ‘Mohican’ Ericameria nauseosus nauseosus Lilium ‘Casa Blanca’ September

Cockspur Hawthorn Native Hops Vine Crataegus crus-galli Humulus neo mexicana

Vera Jameson Stonecrop Canada Goldenrod Alma Poetschke New England Aster Sedum ‘Vera Jameson’ Solidago canadensis Symphyotrichum novae-angliae 'Alma Poetschke’ September

Gambel Oak Snowberry Quercus gambelii Symphoricarpus albus

Indian grass Hummingbird Trumpet Winterfat Sorghastrum nutans Zauschnaria garretti Krascheninnikovia lanata