St. Louis, Missouri.
This week, Amy asks us to take a walk, a photo walk. She writes, “You are invited to share your photo walk, whether park, beach or street.” You can read her challenge post here.
In my travels to new places (for me), I’ve often looked for the local botanical garden to see some of the area’s natural plants and get a feel for the local habitat. That walk through the garden always presents itself with plenty of photo opportunities. For this post, I will share one of my favorite garden visits, a walk through the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Visit at the right time of year and you will be rewarded with many flowers to select and focus upon. This is one of my favorites, a profile of a lily. No matter what season you visit, though, there will always be something worth seeing at the gardens.
The Linnean House features plants that are not suitable for the natural climate of the region around St. Louis. It is the oldest public greenhouse that is still in operation. Originally it was built to house citrus trees in pots that were brought inside for the winter, but over the years, its purpose has changed to house a wider variety of plants.
During our visit, the greenhouse contained succulents and other desert plants. It brought us a reminder of our winter home in Arizona.
On our walk, leaving the Linnean Building, we meandered through the rose garden where a wide variety of roses attracted our attention.
We soon found a Victorian Garden complete with brick walkways and a statue. The geometric planting areas invited us to sit a spell and enjoy the view.
This garden is one of the biggest botanical gardens we have visited. I have many more images that I could share, but I will leave you with this view of a gazebo where we spent some time just enjoying the sights and smells of this beautiful garden. If you would like a more complete tour of this garden, visit my original post here.
Thanks again to Amy for suggesting we take a photo walk. It reminded me that this year, we have missed our visits to botanical gardens in our travels.
John Steiner
Beautiful shots! The Missouri Botanical Garden web site has a lot of useful information that I often consult before deciding on what to plant or grow on our land and garden.
That’s great advice for home gardeners! Thanks for sharing.
A terrific choice for the week John – your opening lily image is really beautifully done. The garden looks lovely and I agree, always seek local botanical gardens in new places.
Thanks. I started the post with my favorite blossom shot of the visit!
What a grand garden! Look like one can spend an entire day there to enjoy. The image of the lily is fabulous!
Thank you for this beautiful photo walk, John.
It’s the best I’ve seen, though I can’t consider myself an expert on gardens around the country. >grin< Thanks for the compliment on the lily.
I went to their website. Impressive! Thank you for introducing to us.
Excellent. I love to visit botanic gardens in different cities. Well done.
Thank you, my friend!
Thanks for sharing, John. I enjoy botanical gardens.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Love the succulent house. Terrific shots, John.
Thank you!
Oh what a beautiful and fantastic walk you took. I adore your lily photo 😀
Thank you! Knowing your skills at flower images, I am greatly flattered.
Quite obviously the staff have such a passion for their job!
That’s a for sure! Btw, my wife and I have been on a road trip and I am hopelessly behind in my blog reads. I’ll be looking forward to catching up on your posts when we return home in a few days.
Enjoy every minute of your trip, John, and I’m looking forward to reading all about it soon.
John, beautiful pictures of the Missouri Botanical Gardens. And especially the lilly shot. Botanical gardens are such a special place to visit.
They are indeed! Thanks for the compliment.
Excellent shots of these beautiful gardens, John! We visited there some years ago so it was nice to see some familiar sights. Thanks for the memories.
We would like to go back.