Where Botany, History, and Art Meet- Another Adventure in The Botanical Gardens: This Time In St. Louis, Part 1

So yesterday I told you about the Botanical Gardens in Springfield, but last month @quantumanomaly and I had the pleasure of visiting the Botanical Gardens in St. Louis, also. We had considered it during the three days we stayed in STL, but since we had other plans and weren't sure how long we would have to visit, we decided to leave it for the last day. Unfortunately, it was pretty dreary and rainy, but we still got to see some beautiful glass sculptures, very intriguing plant species, and learn more about the history of the gardens as well. I recommend giving yourself a decent portion of a day to visit the gardens entirely if you make it out that way, as we had to cut our visit short after about three hours exploring so we could make it home at a decent hour. I am splitting these posts up so that you can see each section we visited separately, but here are some of the plants and sculptures from throughout the park. I hope you enjoy some of the photos from our visit and let me know if you recognize any of the plants or have been to visit yourself.

^{We visited at the end of April and tulips were in full bloom everywhere around the gardens.}

^{I don't remember the name of these cute little flowers, but they reminded me of gerber daisies}

^{This boxwood garden had me feeling all sorts of nostalgia for the books I have read with settings I imagined to look something like this. It was like my imagination was given a place to be realized and I spent a lot of time just in awe of how pristine everything looked.}

^{I found this Iris to be particularly vibrant.}

^{This massive sculpture was assembled and hanged in the entryway. I have no clue how it was made or put there, but it was amazing to think about the work and dedication that was given to doing both.}

Stay tuned for the next part in this series: I wanted to show it to you all at once but I realized that there was just so much I loved at all of the gardens inside the Missouri Botanical Gardens of St. Louis that they all deserved a post on their own.

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Springfield Botanical Gardens Post

Stay awesome,

@tltran