Columbus Blooms

03-15-2025 05-05-2025 DURING GENERAL ADMISSION & SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS

A dazzling celebration of spring! More than 140,000 tulips, daffodils, and pansies throughout the gardens and container displays combine with stars of the botanical garden. Magnolias, lilacs, cherries, viburnum, and thousands of perennials bring an exciting burst of scents and colors after a long winter slumber.

Plants bloom throughout the season starting in March and continuing through the following months.

Spring Bloom Update: April 29, 2025 As we wrap up a wonderful spring season many flowering plants are signaling the nearness of summer! Our tulips are almost all finished for the season but you can catch the last glimpse of them this week with highlights in the Scotts Miracle Gro Company Community Garden Campus and South of the Grand Mallway. Make sure to look high and low for all the flowering perennials, trees, and shrubs that are in full bloom this week.

In the Scotts Miracle Gro Foundation Children's Garden, see if you can spot the fuzzy Pasqueflower, the Mayapple flower hiding behind its umbrella like foliage, and the Wild Hyacinth (Camassia) with its blue/purple flowers dancing in the wind. Watch the pollinators zip around the Pawpaws, Trumpet Honeysuckle, and Allium and look into the canopy to spot the flowers emerging from the Buckeye trees.

Around the garden there are many flowering Viburnums including the American Blackhaw and the Japanese Snowball that are abundant with white clusters of flowers. Delicate blooms like Spanish Bluebells and Lily of the Valley are popping up as well as Iris and Honey Lily which hold their larger flowers on a tall stem. Fothergillas and Flowering Dogwood blooms are still looking beautiful this week throughout the property. Many fragrant Lilacs are very close to blooming and we are just starting to see the early peonies open up.

Sponsor a Bulb Spring represents a renewal of hope. It's the perfect time to celebrate or remember a loved one. There are many ways to make a Tribute Gift at the Conservatory, including sponsoring Columbus Blooms bulbs. A gift of $25 sponsors 5 bulbs in the exhibition. To make a tribute gift, use the link below and select the "Tribute Bulbs" checkbox if you'd like to sponsor bulbs.

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