Announcing the Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center The new “Gateway to the Garden” is designed to enhance the guest experience; construction on the $95 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,…
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The Garden in 100 Objects: From the Iconic to the Rare
A new exhibit offers a fascinating firsthand look at Garden history through 100 unique objects. Objects help bring history to life, and with nearly 160 years of history behind the Missouri Botanical Garden, rich stories can be found in virtually every specimen, structure, and artifact in the Garden’s diverse collections. For example, the…
Biodiversity Cake
This ‘Biodiversity Cake’ includes ingredients from as many as 16 different plant species from all parts of the world. When we enjoy a slice of rich fruit cake, we should remember how the Plant Kingdom provides us with a remarkable range of products, which we can combine in ingenious ways to produce delicious foods! …
From the Library: Cross-Pollination: Flowers in 18th-Century European Porcelain and Textiles
A new exhibit at the Saint Louis Art Museum combines 18th-century textiles and porcelain with several objects from the collections of the Missouri Botanical Garden—two books and a herbarium (dried plant) specimen. Dr Wyse Jackson, Garden President, has also generously loaned the exhibit a book from his personal library: The Florist by Augustin Heckle, a floral…
Garden President Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson Receives Garden Club of America Distinguished Service Medal
“One of the world’s most foremost and best-known botanists and plant conservationists” -Garden Club of America on Garden President Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson At its annual meeting in Baltimore on Saturday, May 6, the Garden Club of America (GCA) awarded Garden President Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson one of its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Medal. The…