What's in Bloom
January-February
Plants with interesting bark such as paperbark maple, colorful fruit such as holly, or early flowers such as Lenten rose, snowdrops, winter jasmine, witchhazel.
March
Anemones, Cornelian cherry, crocus, daphne, forsythia, Japanese andromeda, rhododendrons, sweetbox, winterhazels.
April
Azaleas, crabapples, daffodils, dogwood, grape hyacinths, flowering cherry, magnolias, quince, perennials, purple-leaf plum, redbud, tulips, viburnums.
What's in Bloom, week of April 27, 2013
What's in Bloom, week of April 19, 2013
What's in Bloom, week of April 14, 2013
What's in Bloom, week of April 4, 2013
Last year at this time (for comparison):
What's in Bloom, week of April 21, 2012
May
Azaleas, bulbs, clematis, dovetree, flowering shrubs, fringetree, Japanese dogwood, perennials, red buckeye, smokebush, viburnums, wisteria.
2013:
What's in Bloom, week of May 10, 2013
Last year at this time (for comparison):
What's in Bloom, week of May 7, 2012
What's in Bloom, week of May 19, 2012
What's in Bloom, week of May 26, 2012
June
Annuals, golden rain tree, herbs, hydrangeas, Japanese iris, perennials, mountain laurel, roses, Satsuki azaleas, southern magnolia, stewartia.
July-August
Annuals, butterfly bush, chaste tree, crape myrtle, hydrangeas, perennials, rose-of Sharon, roses, summersweet, trumpet vine, water and bog plants.
September
Annuals, perennials, autumn crocus, roses, ornamental grasses, ornamental cabbage and kale, water hyacinths, autumn witchhazel.
October-November
Fall color of deciduous trees and shrubs such as dogwood, Japanese maple, winged euonymus. Ornamental fruit of barberry, beautyberry, holly, pyracantha, viburnum.
December
Camellias; winter interest of ornamental grasses,
heavenly bamboo, hollies, red and yellow-stemmed dogwood.
Montgomery County Department of Parks