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City Nature Challenge: Discover the Diversity of Nature in Your Neighborhood

In St. Louis, the Cardinals have thrown the first pitch of the season, the weather is heating up, and our local biodiversity is blooming, sprouting, and flying all around us. You’ve dusted off your baseball cap and enjoyed a picnic. Now it’s time to test your nature observation skills! We need you, community scientists, to…

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We heard how much you love our bloom reports! When the Taylor Visitor Center opens, you will be greeted by a visitor engagement station in the Kemper Lobby, to receive firsthand plant information from Garden docents about our blooms. Water lilies by the Climatron, colorful roses, and so many other blooms are waiting for you at the Garden this weekend! The world's smallest water lily, Nymphaea thermarum, is extinct in the wild but visitors to the Garden can see the little lily in the Climatron! The formal Gardens in the Victorian District are bursting with color right now, and the hummingbirds have taken notice!⠀ Today the Garden celebrates the 32nd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Transform your Garden experience August 27 and 28 during the Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center Grand Opening Weekend! On the south side of the Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center, stone frames are starting to outline new gardens, paths, and water features. Stay tuned for updates about Grand Opening Weekend! There's so much to see at the Garden on this #summer Saturday. Here are some of the plants you might fall in love with when you visit the Garden this week:⠀ Luna was returned to the greenhouses on Monday after collapsing and completing her bloom. But Luna isn't dead—the bloom is just one part of the corpse flower's life cycle. Luna will soon go dormant for a while after expending all the energy it took to bloom.⠀

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