A blog of the Missouri Botanical Garden
The installation of a new heating system puts the Garden in the running for the largest Victoria water lily pad ever recorded.
It’s not every day you have the chance to live inside a home Henry Shaw built.
With something for everyone, Garden Glow offers the most complete holiday experience in the St. Louis region.
During Tree Week, the Missouri Botanical Garden is celebrating its large and diverse collection of trees. It may also inspire you to consider adding more trees to your home landscaping. If you have a smaller space, you might want to consider columnar trees. Columnar trees are characterized by being taller than they are wide at…
Plant identification is one of the most common questions received by the Horticulture Answer Service at the Missouri Botanical Garden. And it’s an important one, too. Before you know how to care for a plant, you need to know what it is. The same is as true for trees as it is for tomatoes and…
Announcing the Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center The new “Gateway to the Garden” is designed to enhance the guest experience; construction on the $92 million project begins in January and requires no taxpayer funding. This week the Missouri Botanical Garden announced plans for the new Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center to enhance the guest experience,…
It’s one of the most eye-catching things you’ll ever see on the ground, but do you know the story behind it?
Plants and sports intersect more than you might realize.
A vertical garden is simply a garden that grows upward on a support system rather than growing horizontally on the ground. The concept has been a part of gardening for hundreds of years, but recently vertical gardens have taken off as a top gardening trend. Perhaps one reason for its popularity is that vertical gardening…
Local artist Grace McCammond has worked in every corner of the Garden–most recently, on the mosaics in the Chinese Garden.
Scientists Awarded, Stanley Cup Visits Garden, First Installation of Garden’s Solar Initiative
How the Garden’s deep-rooted commitment to the city and region continues to bear fruit