Maritz Apple Allée
An allée of crabapples lines both sides of the path leading to a fountain of dancing geese. Along the way you will find drifts of spring, summer and fall flowering bulbs planted in a fruit-tree understory with Carex and Pachysandra ground cover.
Cornelia Sunnen Backyard Garden
For many people, backyard gardens are extended living spaces. Our Backyard Garden features plants that provide continuous seasonal interest, such as red and yellow twig dogwood, shrub hollies, dwarf crabapples, a successional planting of flowering bulbs, hanging baskets and containers of flowering annuals.
Lang Family Bird Garden
Plants attractive to birds are featured, including evergreen screening to provide shelter. Red flower borders attract hummingbirds. Shrub and perennial borders provide nesting and food.
Christopher Biraben Butterfly Meadow
The Butterfly Meadow contains water and plants that supply nectar and pollen to attract butterflies to the garden. Butterflies generally enjoy flat landscapes protected from strong winds. They will be most noticeable in the morning and evening and especially in the late summer and fall.
Birch Mahaffey Carpenter Butterfly Pavilion
A Japanese-inspired viewing structure made of cedar and stucco incorporates butterfly-friendly plantings.
Spoehrer Children's Garden
One of two gardens designed for children, this smaller garden sparks curiosity and wonder about plants with striking colors, unusual forms, fragrances and textures. At the center of the garden is a shrub-bordered maze, winding around to a peacock fountain in the center. Learn about the Doris I. Schnuck Children's Garden.
US Bank City Garden
Gardening can be a challenge for those who have a small space bounded by fences or walls. The City Garden boasts a productive vegetable garden, small flowering and evergreen shrubs, and a selection of shade-tolerant and full-sun vines used to cover and soften vertical walls and create a cozy atmosphere.
Justin A. and Rose J. Naumann Experimental Garden
This garden contains test plots for flowers, vegetables and fruit. While plants will be rigorously tested, horticultural techniques are also displayed and evaluated.
Bank of America Family Vegetable Garden
The finest fruit and vegetable varieties that can be grown in the St. Louis area are featured in this garden. A wide range of information and helpful hints on starting and maintaining a vegetable garden on any scale is available.
Enterprise Rent-A-Car Flower Border
A cedar pergola forms the backdrop for this display of hundreds of perennials combined to provide year-long color in the home garden. Flanking the Flower Border is a lawn area planted in true dwarf fescue, a low-maintenance turfgrass.
Lois Whiteside Franklin Flower Trial Garden
Every year, hundreds of new annual and perennial varieties are grown and evaluated for their durability, aesthetic appeal and suitability for the gardening public. The Flower Trial Garden displays the newest varieties for gardeners to trial at home.
The Fragrance Garden
Some of the best fragrance plants for the St. Louis area are on display, including examples of shrub and antique roses. This is a special garden that delights the senses with its beauty and the sound of splashing water.
Marilyn and Sam Fox Fruit Garden
In the Fruit Garden you will find a diverse selection of apple trees, including those for fresh eating as well as baking. Other favorites planted here are grapes, gooseberries, strawberries, blackberries and currants.
Joseph F. Ruwitch Garden for All
Plants are easily accessible to all, including persons requiring walking aids and wheelchairs. Interesting and innovative ideas for the most diverse and enjoyable gardening experiences include raised beds and planters of varying heights and sizes; benches; and a tool display of digging attachments, handle extensions and modified pruners. The Zimmerman Sensory Garden is also designed to engage people with disabilities.
Ameren UE Ground Cover Border
Ground cover plants are low-maintenance plants that spread out to cover the ground surface completely. In the Ground Cover Border, you will find a selection of moderate to vigorous spreaders ranging in height from less than six inches to several feet.
Member's Entry Court Garden
Here you will find comfortable benches on which to rest and plan your visit. The Entry Court has a four-season flowering display surrounded by the brick and stone paving. Purchase a paver
Martha Love Symington Missouri Native Shade Garden
This garden replicates an eastern Missouri woodland full of shade-loving plants below a canopy of maple and oak trees.
Jordan Charitable Foundation Ornamental Shade Garden and Overlook
Shade gardens can be colorful and interesting, as this garden demonstrates. Notable plants here include azaleas, astilbes, variegated hostas, euonymous, foxgloves and cotoneasters. The overlook provides a panoramic view of the Fragrance Garden and the hundreds of perennials in the Flower Borders.
Lucy and Stanley Lopata Prairie Garden
The prairie garden recreates a portion of the native prairie that once existed in Missouri. It is the first in a series of native plant gardens located on a knoll overlooking the Kemper Center pavilion.
Suzanne Stagg Wright Rock Garden
Limestone and sandstone rock ledges, unique geological features of Missouri, create a special habitat for plants. The Rock Garden displays a combination of native and cultivated plants growing in and around limestone and sandstone boulders.
Jane and Whitney Harris Secret Garden
Located in a secluded corner, this intimate oasis is plotted in a semi-circular pattern of herbaceous perennials with a tall evergreen perimeter hedge. The garden centers on a life-size bronze sculpture of a cocker spaniel quizzically examining a porcupine.
Coinco Summer Plant House
The Summer Plant House is a shaded outdoor working area equipped with a bench and tools to handle routine gardening tasks like repotting, mixing soils and propagating plants.
Mildred Lane Kemper Terrace Garden
A mixture of herbaceous perennials, including hardy lilies, ornamental grasses, mounding evergreens, small shade trees and containers of colorful annuals, surround the Terrace Garden's patio. A vine-covered trellis forms the backdrop for this comfortable area.