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Adopt-a-Plant
The Missouri Botanical Garden invites you to become a part of our mission by adopting a plant.
As a Plant Parent, you will receive a certificate of adoption that includes a 5x7 image of the plant, suitable for framing. The Garden also will list Plant Parents’ names during the appropriate season on the Garden’s web site.
Adopt a plant for $30, or upgrade to $40 and participate in an Adopt-a-Plant walking tour on September 30.
Your fee will support the Garden’s work to sustain this lovely landscape, instill wonder in learners, and conduct important plant science and conservation work.
Fall 2010 Plants to Adopt
The royal purple blooms of the New England aster (Symphyotrichum nova-eangliae) provide a burst of color as we enter fall. Look for it in the Boxwood Garden, near the William T. Kemper Center for Home Gardening, and in border gardens near Ridgway Visitor Center.
Click here to adopt an New England Aster.
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Mums, with their fragrant blooms and dark green leaves, beautifully complement the deep, vibrant hues of autumn. Find mums everywhere in the Garden but especially in the Japanese Garden and Kemper Center.
Click here to adopt a chrysanthemum. |
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Dr. Charles Short found Solidago shortii growing in Kentucky in 1840. It was believed for decades to be extinct until a new population was discovered in the mid-20th century in Kentucky. In this century, ecologists found the plant in Indiana. Today, the Missouri Botanical Garden is the primary custodian of this plant.
Click here to adopt Short's goldenrod. |
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Summer 2010 Plants to Adopt
This scarlet-flowered herb is endangered in Indiana and is part of the Garden’s Sacred Seeds Initiative, which works to preserve plants from around the world that may possess the potential to restore health.
Click here to adopt an Indian Pink.
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The beauty of the rose is “composed of all that is exquisite and graceful,” wrote Garden founder Henry Shaw in 1882. “Human art can neither colour nor describe so fair a flower.” Since its beginning, the Garden has had a proud relationship with the rose and celebrates it each year with more than 2,700 individual rose plants.
Click here to adopt a rose. |
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Victoria water lilies have been part of St. Louis summers since the Garden introduced them to the community in 1894. They continue to delight visitors as their giant blooms emerge from six-foot circular leaves that appear to float atop the water. Water lilies bloom from July through early October.
Click here to adopt a water lily. |
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Spring 2010 Adopted Plants
The botanical name for daffodil is Narcissus, which is a reference to the beautiful boy in Greek mythology who fell in love with his reflection in a pool of water. The story goes that the boy wasted away as he gazed at himself, and where he had been, lovely flowers replaced him. The graceful nodding head of the daffodil bloom recalls Narcissus’s down-turned gaze. The flower’s bold bloom and subtle scent delights visitors every spring.
Click here to adopt a Daffodil.
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This delicate white flower is a globally endangered plant. It used to grow on shaded sandstone bluffs in Jefferson County, Mo., but became extinct in part because the construction of dams caused the bluffs to flood. The Missouri Botanical Garden is growing the Ozark Spring Beauty in a laboratory at the Commerce Bank Education Center and hopes to introduce it soon onto rock bluffs at Shaw Nature Reserve.
Click here to adopt an Ozark Spring Beauty.
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Spring at the Garden arrives in jubilant fashion when the bulb gardens erupt with colorful tulips. Our signature bulb display, which tulips rule in early spring, signals the return to the lovely outdoor season at the Garden.
Click here to adopt a Tulip. |
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