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Missouri Botanical Garden

The Missouri Botanical Garden is situated in Missouri. Other people called it botanical garden “The Shaw’s Garden” . This attractive place was founded in 1859 being one of the oldest botanical garden from United States. The Garden is a center for botanical and scientist research. Its area has around 80 hectares and it’s near the Tower Grove Park, another important tourist attraction.
Every year come here a lot of tourists from all over the world to see this place devoted to many cultural festivals as the Japanese Festival and the Chinese Culture Days by the St. Louis Chinese Culture DC. During the festival travellers will see some elements of culture’s botanics like arts,music, food, etc. When the fesival began, it was known as  The Shaw’s Garden.
This Botanical Garden  is considered one of the top three in the world. rare collections of botanical and historical materials:  architecturally significant buildings, fountains, and the famed Seiwa-en Japanese Garden.
The dome of the botanical garden is 70 feet high and 175 in diameter, permitting tall palm trees to tower  above the tropical view of waterfalls. It deserves to be visited because here you will see around 1.200 different species of exotic plants and trees . Temperature are from 64 to 74 degrees and average humidity is 85 %.
While you visit it, every tourist feel like in a jungle when they see all these kind of flowers, orchids, etc.

Posted on March 9th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »