May is a good month to see what is blooming at Sarah Duke Gardens. But is also worthwhile to notice all the new perennial growth that is making promises for summer. Tomorrow's tall Joe Pye weed and Asiatic hybrid lilies are gaining some serious height as I write this. Sometime in the humid and hot weeks ahead they will bust open their buds; but they can be appreciated well before then.

Joe Pye weed


cabbage leaf coneflower