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4344 Shaw Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63110

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4344 Shaw Blvd. St. Louis MO 63110

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  • Daily 9am-5pm
  • Patio/Sidewalk Dining
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An educational and recreational series of beautiful public gardens of various types (rose, Japanese, etc.) built on Henry Shaw's former estate.








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  • The Eight Best Memorial Day Picnic Spots in St. Louis

    The Eight Best Memorial Day Picnic Spots in St. Louis

    By Zach Garrison | Fri, May 24, 2013

    For Gut Check, Memorial Day will always be associated with American flag T-shirts, pork steaks and family picnics, all of which suggest the need for a great outdoor spot to enjoy the holiday. To help ... More »

  • The Ten Best Food Events in St. Louis This Weekend: May 17 to 19

    The Ten Best Food Events in St. Louis This Weekend: May 17 to 19

    By Mabel Suen | Fri, May 17, 2013

    It finally feels like springtime, when all the foodies come out to play! There's so much edible excitement this weekend that we can barely contain ourselves. Expect a busy list of picks to choose for ... More »

  • A Little Bite of China

    A Little Bite of China

    By Paul Friswold | Thu, May 16, 2013

    China is a large country with an even larger history. You could spend a lifetime studying just one province and still have more to learn. This Saturday and Sunday (May 18 and 19) the Missouri Botanical Garden's Chinese Culture Days offers a... More »

  • The Ten Best Food Events in St. Louis This Weekend: May 4 to 6

    The Ten Best Food Events in St. Louis This Weekend: May 4 to 6

    By Mabel Suen | Fri, May 03, 2013

    Cinco de Mayo, Derby Day and First Friday are only a few of the excuses to get out and get your drink on this weekend. Besides that, rejoice over the bounty of a new farmers' market season in Tower Gr... More »

  • The Ten Best Food Events in St. Louis This Weekend: April 26 to 28

    The Ten Best Food Events in St. Louis This Weekend: April 26 to 28

    By Mabel Suen | Fri, April 26, 2013

    It's been a long week. Treat yourself. Two beer fests, a centennial wine tasting and a sangria tasting provide plenty of ways to wet that whistle. Read on for some recommendations of where to eat and ... More »

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  • 2012 | Best Festival

    So the event's full name was a little cheesy: "Lantern Festival: Art by Day, Magic by Night." OK, a lot cheesy. It appeared to reference superheroes, bad advertising slogans and a certain subset of pornographic movies. But then we escorted ourselves to the Missouri Botanical Garden to view this lantern festival. Earlier this spring MoBot took delivery of four shipping containers from Zigong, the lantern capital of China, and workers took thousands of bolts of silk and spools of wire, not to... More »

  • 2010 | Best Place to Take Out-of-Town Guests

    For millennia, gardens have served as a showcase for man's ability to control and reproduce, in miniature, the wilds of the natural world. St. Louis' own garden, the Missouri Botanical Garden, is no exception, though it encapsulates the essence of the urban landscape around it as well. It doesn't matter if you take your guests to one of the colorful weekend cultural festivals, invite them to check out the life-size dinosaurs currently on display in the glittering jungle-under-glass Climatron... More »

  • 2008 | Best Stroll

    Let's get this straight: You do not take a stroll for the exercise. If burned calories are all you're after, the results of a stroll will make you cry. No, you take a stroll to clear your mind, to work through whatever knotty problem currently plagues you, or, if you must take a companion, to have a serious conversation. (Sadly, this also makes a stroll a perfect occasion for a breakup.) A stroll is like meditation for those of us who lack the balance -- both mental and physical --... More »

  • 2007 | Best Music Festival

    All music festivals are certainly not created equal; nor are all music festival locations. On Wednesday evenings during the summertime, the Whitaker Music Festival allows St. Louisans to picnic on the beautiful grounds of the Missouri Botanical Garden while listening to live music. The free summer festival, funded by the Whitaker Foundation, offers up a wide variety, including concerts by performers like Jeremy Davenport, Peter Mayer and Gumbohead. Bring along good eats, a bottle or three of... More »

  • 2006 | Best Gift Shop

    Talk about your symbiotic marketing! You've just toured the verdant Missouri Botanical Garden. There's a name for your condition: You're plant-crazy, convinced that you too will soon be a master gardener. On your way out, you decide to stop off at the gift shop--just to browse, of course. By then it's already too late. Before you know it, you're scooping up bonsais and orchids, pruning shears and fertilizer. And that's just in the first few steps. Wade deeper into the Garden Gate Shop... More »

  • 2004 | Best Place to Take Out-of-Town Guests

    The sheer beauty of the Missouri Botanical Garden makes it a perennial favorite with St. Louisans and visitors alike. During spring and fall, the garden's flowers and verdant green foliage are the main attraction. In the winter it's the massive Buckminster Fuller-inspired Climatron, with its thousands of species of tropical plants. The Japanese Garden is worth a trip on its own merits -- at a whopping fourteen acres, it's the largest strolling Japanese Garden in the Western Hemisphere,... More »

  • 2002 | Best Tourist Attraction

    Yes, you can always take your out-of-towners to the top of the Arch, but how predictable is that? How many times can you hunker down in a Kubrickian white bubble car and inch to the top? How about a walk among the roses instead? The Missouri Botanical Garden is world-class, considered one of the most prominent and respected gardens in the world, alongside London's Kew Gardens and the New York Botanic Gardens. It's also a world leader in botanic research; its botanists and biologists scour... More »

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    | St Lous, MO | 149 Reviews

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    | Wed, May 6, 2009

    Let's get this straight: You do not take a stroll for the exercise. If burned calories are all you're after, the results of a stroll will make you cry. No, you take a stroll to clear your mind, to work through whatever knotty problem currently plagues you, or, if you must take a companion, to have a serious conversation. (Sadly, this also makes a stroll a perfect occasion for a breakup.) A stroll is like meditation for those of us who lack the balance — both mental and physical — to sit for hours in the lotus position. The ideal stroll should not be challenging or interesting enough to distract you from your own oh-so-important deep thoughts. Which brings us to the Missouri Botanical Garden. Set on 79 acres in the Shaw neighborhood, MoBot offers miles of paved paths for your strolling pleasure, through woodlands and apple groves, a Japanese water garden and an English maze. The plants are pretty. They smell good. If you get weary — from the heaviness of your thoughts, naturally, not from the act of strolling — there is always a shady bench where you can plop yourself down and pull out a nice, diverting book. Best of all, the gardens are open every day, even in the winter, and on Wednesday and Saturday mornings St. Louis city and county residents get in for free. Because contemplation ought to be the only luxury that costs nothing.

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    | St Louis, MO | 20 Reviews

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    | Wed, December 22, 2010

    Great plants!

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    | Troy, MO | 43 Reviews

    4
    | Tue, August 3, 2010

    Great Date Spot. Perfect Family Spot. Great Photo spot. Walk, Sit, Chat, Relax, and Learn. Great center for Home Gardening staffed by Smart and Friendly People.

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