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Week of October 19, 2012

Cut Flower Garden

View of Cut Flower Garden from under Cercidiphyllum japonicum.

Photo by Lisa Roper
Iris 'Sunny Disposition'

Iris 'Sunny Disposition' and Cosmos bipinnatus 'Rubenza' Brush Off Last Weekend's Frost for a Fall Hurrah.

Photo by Doug Croft

Soft clouds of pink Muhlenbergia capillaris and tan Panicum capillare soften the hill above The Pond.

Photo by Lisa Roper
Doug Croft

Doug Croft assists the Associated Services for the Blind with fall cuttings at the Fairmount Park Horticulture Center.

Photo by Doug Croft
Impatience omeiana

Impatiens omeiana, a hardy impatiens from China, blooms in The Asian Woods.

Photo by Lisa Roper
 Chanticleer Terrace Garden

Cycas revoluta and Phormium 'Sundowner' put on their show above the balustrade at the Chanticleer Terrace Garden.

Photo by Lisa Roper
Brugmansia versicolor

Brugmansia versicolor blooms outside the Sun Porch.

Photo by Lisa Roper
Quercus alba

Quercus alba trained on The Ruin wall.

Photo by Lisa Roper
The Chanticleer Gravel Terrace

Agave attenuata 'Light of Day' grown in an urn, is surrounded by an array of silver leaved plants (Centaurea gymnocarpa; Lavandula x intermedia), purple flowering Salvia 'Ultra Violet' and the glowing orange Leonotis leonurus (dwarf form) in The Chanticleer Gravel Terrace.

Photo by Lisa Roper
Tennis Court Garden

Cornus controversa 'Variegata' catches the early light above the wall in the Tennis Court Garden.

Photo by Lisa Roper
Dahlia 'Mrs. I. De Ver Warner'

Dahlia 'Mrs. I. De Ver Warner', an heirloom dahlia from a Kentucky farmhouse, blooms near The Entry Garden.

Photo by Lisa Roper
The Entry Pavillion

Passiflora violacea (form #3) trails through Gomphrena 'Fireworks' at The Entry Pavillion.

Photo by Lisa Roper

Previous Weeks

What's in Bloom - 2011 Season

Take a look at last seasons Highlights to help plan your visit this season...

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10am - 5pm

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3pm Saturdays & Sundays,
and until 6:30pm Friday evenings.

Parking reservations are not required on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Friday Late Closings


Open until 8pm May 3 through
August 30.

Picnicking is permitted only in the picnic areas except on Friday evenings from 4-8pm, guests may picnic anywhere in the garden.
We ask guests to carry out what they bring in.

Early Saturdays in 2024


We open at 8:00am on August 3,
September 7, October 5, and November 2 for early entrance in 2024.

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Garden Highlights Tour


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News & Events

Once Upon a Garden:
Storytime at Chanticleer


Story Time will be held at 9:30am,
on July 20, August 10 .
Registration is required.

Woody Plant Conference


Friday, July 19, 2024 at the
Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College.
Register here.

Perennial Plant Conference


Friday, October 18, 2024 at the
Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College.
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