Yucca Gloriosa at Chapultepec Park

Yucca Gloriosa at Chapultepec Park, Mexico City. Yucca gloriosa Variegata is a very ornamental, broadleaf evergreen shrub featuring a basal rosette of attractive, rigid, sword-shaped, spine-tipped blue-green leaves. It is topped in mid-summer with spikes of beautiful, large, white, bell-shaped flowers that hummingbirds love.

Yucca Gloriosa at Chapultepec Park

Mixture of Plants

The Terrace Gardens are the historic heart of Duke Gardens. Topped by a wisteria-covered pergola, the Terrace beds are filled each season with marvelous combinations of bulbs, annuals, perennials, ornamental grasses, trees, and shrubs. Container plantings complement the landscape designs.

Mix of Colors

Flowers in Historic Gardens

The Historic Gardens are where Sarah P. Duke Gardens began in 1934. The iconic Italianate-style Terrace Gardens, designed by pioneering landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman, were dedicated in 1939, and the curated gardens with various flowers grew from there.

Surrounded by Colors

Mixture of Flowers

Common Bluebell

In the language of flowers, the bluebell is a symbol of humility, constancy, gratitude, and everlasting love. Bluebells are often called fairy flowers. Some people believe that the dainty petals form perfect fairy hats, others that they are fairy thimbles, or that fairies climb inside the bells to shelter from the rain.

Common Bluebell