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150^th Anniversary Events
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Floral Clock
Now in full bloom!

EarthWays: Living the Green Life Exhibit
May 1–October 31, 2009

Power of Plants Display

Garden Party Nights
Thursdays
May 28–September 3, 2009
May 12–June 30, 2009

The Garden Comes Alive Sesquicentennial Gala
May 30, 2009

Heirloom Vegetables
at the Kemper Center
Summer 2009

Healthy You, Healthy
Planet Festival
July 18, 2009

Commemorative Keepsakes
Missouri Botanical Garden: Green for 150 Years is available for purchase at our online store!

Emerson, a global manufacturing and technology company based in St. Louis, is the presenting sponsor of the sesquicentennial celebration.

Dr. David Wolfe
Thursday, June 18
Dr. David Wolfe understands climate change from the ground up...literally. A professor of plant ecology at Cornell University, David is a leading authority on the effects of climate change and rising carbon dioxide on plants, soils, and ecosystems.

Dr. Tom Swetnam
Thursday, July 23
Director of the world’s premier tree-ring research laboratory at the University of Arizona, Dr. Tom Swetnam reads tree rings to track drought, temperature changes, and fires throughout history. He is a world expert on the “Age of Mega-Fires” we are seeing across the country today.

Adam Gollner
Thursday, August 20
Adam Gollner is in pursuit of fruit. The author of The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Obesession, Commerce and Adventure, Adam takes audiences into a Willy Wonka-like world with orange cloudberries, peanut butter fruits, and the miracle fruit that makes everything sour taste sweet.

lOUv Richard Louv
Thursday, October 15
Richard Louv, recipient of the 2008 Audubon Medal, is the author of the best-selling book, Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. Richard contends that the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the health of the earth are inseparable.

PREVIOUS SPEAKERS

The Goodson Company presents
Chris Kilham
Thursday, March 26
Called "the Indiana Jones of natural medicine” by CNN, Chris Kilham is a medicine hunter, author, and educator who searches the globe for the plants that will cure illnesses, alleviate pain, and mitigate countless disorders.

Advantage Capital Partners presents
NERENBAUM Dr. May Berenbaum
Thursday, April 23
Dr. May Berenbaum is the nation’s leading expert on “colony collapse disorder”—the sudden and mysterious population crash of honeybees that threatens our national food chain.