otherOctober 5, 2001
Summer in Missouri Botanical Garden
ST. LOUIS -- The 79-acre Missouri Botanical Garden is considered one of the top three botanical gardens in the world. The venue includes Japanese, Chinese, German, English and Victorian gardens along with the Climatron, a geodesic dome housing a tropical rain forest. It also has a home gardening center, a resource for gardening information that includes 23 residential-scale demonstration gardens...
Southeast Missourian
ST. LOUIS -- The 79-acre Missouri Botanical Garden is considered one of the top three botanical gardens in the world.
The venue includes Japanese, Chinese, German, English and Victorian gardens along with the Climatron, a geodesic dome housing a tropical rain forest. It also has a home gardening center, a resource for gardening information that includes 23 residential-scale demonstration gardens.
More than 4,000 trees live on the grounds, some of which date to the 19th century. The garden's botanists currently are conducting 25 major flora projects.
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The Garden Cafe and Garden Gate Shop are open daily.
The garden is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. every day except Christmas.
For 24-hour recorded information, phone (800) 642-8842.
From I-270, go east on I-44, exit at Vandeventer, turn right onto Vandeventer and left at Shaw Boulevard.
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