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Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 14h

Join us this weekend to recognize and celebrate Native American knowledge and culture!

🌱 Indigenous Peoples' Celebration
🗓️ October 11– 13
🎟 Included in Garden admission
🔗 buff.ly/QFZuPhx

📸 Mary Lou Olson

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Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 16h

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” — L.M. Montgomery, “Anne of Green Gables”

Don't forget to add the Autumn Crocuses on your must-see list during your next Garden visit! 😌

📸 Linda Karins

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Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 1d

Join us at Fest-of-Ale for a local brew and take in the Garden's fall scenery! 🍻🍂

🗓️ Friday, October 10 from 6—9 p.m.
🎟 $40 members | $50 nonmembers | $15 designated driver
🔗 buff.ly/jrT3F7u

📸 Kat Niehaus

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Photo of beer in Missouri Botanical Garden glass

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Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 2d

Join us next week for Chicken Tending 101 to learn proper techniques in husbandry, health, welfare, and more! 🐔

🗓️ Wednesday, October 15 from 5:30—8 p.m.
📍 Commerce Bank Education Center - Room 125
🔗 buff.ly/0jVloSV

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Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 3d

Joining us for Day 3️⃣ of Best of Missouri Market®? 🍂

Prior to your arrival, please review our parking guidelines and tips! ⏭️

To learn more about Best of Missouri Market®, please visit the link here: buff.ly/rt4VkWr

📸 Margaret Schmidt, Nathan Kwarta, Sundos Schneider

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Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 4d

Are you ready for Day 2️⃣ of Best of Missouri Market®? 😎

Prior to your arrival, please review our parking guidelines and tips! ⏭️

To learn more about Best of Missouri Market®, please visit the link here: buff.ly/rt4VkWr

📸 Margaret Schmidt, Nathan Kwarta, Sundos Schneider

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State of St. Louis @stateofstlouis.bsky.social · 6d

Friday-Sunday
October 3rd-5th

Best of Missouri Market at @mobotgarden.bsky.social

Next to last opportunity to buy 🌱 native plants in St. Louis area this year from Missouri Wildflowers Nursery, a vendor

Admission Fee applies

www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/events-class...

Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 7d

Best of Missouri Market® 2025 kicks off this week! 🍂🍁

Prior to your arrival, please review our parking guidelines and tips! ⏭️

To learn more about Best of Missouri Market®, please visit the link here: buff.ly/rt4VkWr

📸 Nathan Kwarta, Sundos Schneider

#MOBOTGarden

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Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 5d

Day 1️⃣ of Best of Missouri Market® 2025 is here! 🍁

Prior to your arrival, please review our parking guidelines and tips! ⏭️

To learn more about Best of Missouri Market®, please visit the link here: buff.ly/rt4VkWr

📸 Nathan Kwarta, Sundos Schneider

#MOBOTGarden

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Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 7d

NOTE: no parking at Mullanphy Elementary School on Saturday, October 4th or Sunday, October 5th.

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worldfloraonline.bsky.social @worldfloraonline.bsky.social · 7d

Happy World Coffee Day! WFO is looking for a coffee expert, and we don’t mean your local barista.
We want to form a Taxonomic Expert Network (TEN) for Rubiaceae, the coffee and quinine family. Swipe through to learn more about TENS, and send your favorite rubiaceae experts our way!

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Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 7d

Best of Missouri Market® 2025 kicks off this week! 🍂🍁

Prior to your arrival, please review our parking guidelines and tips! ⏭️

To learn more about Best of Missouri Market®, please visit the link here: buff.ly/rt4VkWr

📸 Nathan Kwarta, Sundos Schneider

#MOBOTGarden

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Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 8d

“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the spring, who reaps a harvest in the autumn.” — B.C. Forbes🍂

Autumn is starting to show its colors in the 📍Kemper gardens! Take a peaceful stroll through the area on your next Garden visit.

📸 Nathan Kwarta

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Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 9d

Joining us for Best of Missouri Market® this weekend? Read our visitor guide on Discover + Share to learn about:
🍁 Event vendors
🍁 Event Activities
🍁 Parking
🍁 And more!

Read the full visitor guide here: buff.ly/AmQyBog

📸 Lisa DeLorenzo, Nathan Kwarta

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Group of festival goers posing with their pumpkins

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Edinburgh Journal of Botany @ejbotany.bsky.social · 13d

A species of #Heteropolygonatum #Asparagaceae from #Myanmar and western Yunnan #Gaoligongshan is described as new to science by botanists from @mobotgarden.bsky.social and @thebotanics.bsky.social in #EJBotany #OpenAcess: bit.ly/46IqSMs

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Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 13d

#IAmStLouis

Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 13d

I am a colorful oasis of 79-acres all year-round.

I am the place driven by the need to protect and conserve plants and their ecosystems.

I am one of the nation's oldest botanical gardens.

I am Missouri Botanical Garden.

I am St. Louis.

📸 Cassidy Moody

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J @jen4787.bsky.social · 14d

#Missouri
Fun event at Mobot, check it out if you are looking for something to do

Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 16d

Best of Missouri Market® kicks off next weekend! 🍂

Here are 4️⃣ things we're looking forward to at this spirited fall festival. ⏭️

Want to learn more about Best of Missouri Market®? Click the link here: buff.ly/qJPLpVo

📸 Nathan Kwarta, Sundos Schneider, Mary Lou Olson, Lisa DeLorenzo

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State of St. Louis @stateofstlouis.bsky.social · 14d

11 am and 1 pm 🎶 performances this Saturday at @mobotgarden.bsky.social

Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · Aug 20

Have you ever experienced scents through sounds? @mobotmuseum.bsky.social & Mezzo Soprano Benedetta Orsi (together with St. Louis Womens Chorale) will take you on a captivating journey through scents and essences in classical music. www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/sachs-museum...

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Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 14d

Stop by to see the water lilies before they retire for the season in early October! 🪷

📸 Kelly Cato, Sundos Schneider

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Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 14d

Psst…want to know an cool little botany fact? 👀

Octavia at her heaviest of 119 lbs. would've still been able to stand on one of our Giant Victoria Water Lilies which can officially hold 186 lbs. after this year's #waterlilyweighoff. 🤯

A corpse flower on a giant water lily pad

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Living Earth Collaborative @livingearthcollab.bsky.social · 15d

Behind the scenes at @mobotgarden.bsky.social

WashU students toured the Oertli Hardy Plant Nursery with Dr. Matthew Albrecht to see how research meets conservation.

Thanks to MOBOT for opening their doors (and greenhouses).

📸: Sean Garcia, WashU

#WashU #InSTLforSTL #botanicalgardens

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Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 16d

Best of Missouri Market® kicks off next weekend! 🍂

Here are 4️⃣ things we're looking forward to at this spirited fall festival. ⏭️

Want to learn more about Best of Missouri Market®? Click the link here: buff.ly/qJPLpVo

📸 Nathan Kwarta, Sundos Schneider, Mary Lou Olson, Lisa DeLorenzo

#MOBOTGarden

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worldfloraonline.bsky.social @worldfloraonline.bsky.social · 20d

Exciting news from the World Flora Online! We are thrilled to announce that the WFO Council voted last week to register as an international association in Switzerland.

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Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 20d

Ever wonder what the bottom of a water lily pad looks like? Let's hear from water lily experts, Claire & Greta on these massive beauties! ▶️

Be sure to stop by📍Central Axis to see the Giant Victoria water lilies on your next Garden visit.

🎥 Nathan Kwarta

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Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 21d

OK, we've found our favorite Garden spot this summer over at 📍 mobotmuseum.bsky.social! 😌

We're curious: what's been your favorite Garden spot so far?

📸 Nathan Kwarta

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