Central Park Flowers

It is late summer in New York City's Central Park, and the flowers and trees are blooming and fragrant.

Some of the current flowers in Central Park that are blooming in the Conservatory Garden, Shakespeare Garden, The North Meadow Butterfly Gardens, and the other lush gardens are Black-eyed Susan, Butterfly Weed, Cardinal Flower, Common Milkweed, Common Yarrow, Mountain Mint, Hibiscus, Butterfly Bush, Buttonbush, Coneflower, Blue Lobelia, Obedient Plant, Rose, Turks-cap Lily, Wild Bergamot (Bee Balm), Salvia, Wild Geranium, Phlox, Sunflower, Late Boneset, White Snakeroot, Mistflower and Aster.



The best locations in Central Park to see beautiful, colorful wild flowers are Shakespeare Garden at 79th St on the west side of the park, Conservatory Garden at 104th to 106th Street and Fifth Avenue, the North Meadow Butterfly Gardens at the East Drive and 102nd to 103rd Street, The Ramble, the North Woods, the Dene Slope, the Wildflower Meadow and the Reservoir.

If you would like to license high-resolution flower images for publication, please email me at EllenMichaels@ymail.com.


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