See the Garden in its October colors in these 30 favorite photos of the month.
Tag: Tree Week
Take Our Tree ID Quiz
These thorny questions may leaf you feeling nuts, but see if you can conquer these ten questions about trees.
Saving America’s Endangered Christmas Tree
Although a common sight in living rooms across the country every holiday season, one of America’s most popular Christmas trees is under threat. However, the Missouri Botanical Garden is working to safeguard the future of the Fraser fir. Help support our conservation work by making a gift at this link. Threats Facing the Fraser Fir…
Considering Columnar Trees
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…
Tips and Tricks for Better Tree ID
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…
Plant Profile: Osage Orange
It’s one of the most eye-catching things you’ll ever see on the ground, but do you know the story behind it?
Garden News and Notes: October 2019
Scientists Awarded, Stanley Cup Visits Garden, First Installation of Garden’s Solar Initiative
Moon Trees and Space Gums
From moon trees to shuttle gums, trees are tied to the history of space exploration.
A Partnership to Prevent Blight
Chinese chestnut blight has decimated North American members of the genus Castanea, which includes American chestnuts, Allegheny chinkapins, and Ozark chinquapins. The Missouri Botanical Garden’s Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development (CCSD) and Horticulture Division are working with the Ozark Chinquapin Foundation (OCF) on a project that will reveal how well individual Ozark chinquapin trees…
Butterflies Need Trees Too
Autumn is the perfect time to celebrate Tree Week. We encourage you to not only take a stroll and enjoy the fall colors, but also take a moment to think about all the life these trees support. Among those branches are thousands of different invertebrates, including centipedes and beetles, cocoons and chrysalises. Some trees are…
It’s Complicated: Trees and Ecological Restoration
The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now. -Anonymous Addendum: That is, unless the tree will grow just fine without your help or the tree doesn’t really belong there. In that case, the best time might be never. Planting a tree is rejuvenating. It gets you…
Botany by Drone Takes Off at Shaw Nature Reserve
Picture in your mind a researcher in the field conducting a tree survey. Likely you imaged a trained botanist deep in a forest or jungle, swatting away insects and wiping sweat out of their eyes while keying out an unknown specimen with a hand lens, clipboard, taxonomic field guide, and a rucksack of supplies at…