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The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder and philanthropist Henry Shaw . Its herbarium , with more than 6.6 million specimens, [ 3 ] is the second largest in North America, behind that of the New York Botanical Garden .
Seiwa-en is a Japanese strolling garden located in the Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, Missouri, in the Midwestern United States. At 5 ha (14 acres), it is the largest such garden in North America.
This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Missouri is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Missouri [1] [2] [3] Name Image
Missouri Botanical Garden staffers will plant 3.5 acres in total for the renovation, including 30,500 individual plants representing 332 individual species. Almost half of the species are native ...
Ground was broken for the Butterfly House in June 1997, and the Butterfly House opened its doors to the public on September 18, 1998. In 2000 the outdoor area known as the Butterfly Garden was dedicated. In July, 2001, the Butterfly House became a division of the Missouri Botanical Garden. In 2002, the "Emerson Lakeside Terrace" was opened.
Magnolia groves and daffodil fields grace the Nature Reserve in the spring. Shaw Nature Reserve lies south of I-44 at Gray Summit, Missouri. Shaw Nature Reserve, formerly known as Shaw Arboretum, is a 2,400 acres (9.7 km 2) private non-profit nature reserve located in Gray Summit, Missouri, that is operated as an extension of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
The Missouri Supreme Court approved them. [1] Wipfler served as Executive Director until 1990. Voters approved adding the Missouri Botanical Garden as the district's fourth subdistrict in 1983, and the Missouri History Museum in 1988. [1] Olney F. Otto served as the district's second executive director from 1990 until his death in 2001. Mr. J.
Thomas Bernard Croat (born 23 May 1938 in St. Marys, Iowa) is an American botanist and plant collector, noteworthy as one of botanical history's "most prolific plant collectors". [1] He has collected and described numerous species of plants, particularly in the family Araceae, in his career at the Missouri Botanical Garden. [2]