The Missouri Botanical Gardens were a total surprise to me. Sweetie wanted to go see them and I said “OK” without a whole lot of enthusiasm. Once I got there I was wowed. They are huge. They cover almost 80 acres and extensive and varied and very very cool. They just go on forever. We spent several hours there. Turns out they are 150 years old.
Plants they had, flowers, shrubs, trees, grass, whatever. They were beautiful, even in mid October.
And more plants, some with thorns on the leaves.
I love water features. They had water features everywhere.
We had lots of FUN that day. We were bushed when we were done.
I recommend that Gardens if you are ever in Saint Louis.
What a lovely place to visit. I really like your mosaics, great pictures.
It looks like a fun time was had by all!
Sunny 🙂
Thanks for reminding me of what a wonderful place this is. We visited several years ago and were very impressed.
You sure saw a lot on you’re St. Louis trip. I’m sorry we missed the museum when we were there.
Hi Yogi,
I came by for SWF,but noticed this Garden post. I just visited Denver Botanic yesterday and thought it was great – but – your Missouri Garden has a lot more color. I really like the mosaics – is that second one with the thorns in the lower left a cactus? (Very creative – I must try a mosaic sometime.)
Love the pictures!!
It’s always good to humour the womenfolk when they want to visit a garden. My husband realises that by now! And as you found, it can even be enjoyable!