#TheLiteraryGarden How does your book collection grow? 📚🪴👩‍🏫 Read the latest blog by @mobotgarden.bsky.social's Kemper Center for Home Gardening that explores the intersections of the botanical & literary worlds in collaboration with the @mobotmuseum.bsky.social! discoverandshare.org/2026/07/28/g...

Grow Your Own Literary Garden - Discover + Share

Discover plants featured in The Literary Garden exhibition and how you can create your own literary-inspired garden.

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#TheLiteraryGarden #ACreativeFieldStudy #NaturalGesture Dail Chambers is a visual artist and grower/land steward. Her visual art practice is a multimedia exploration in genealogy, women’s narratives and social environmental art. Her artist book @mobotmuseum.bsky.social features this body of work.

Sunday was a perfect day to visit @mobotgarden.bsky.social. Did one of the guided tours and learned some fun history before our usual stroll around the gardens.

Garden designer and author Gertrude Jekyll (English, 1843-1932) is featured in #TheLiteraryGarden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social Her 1902 book ROSES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS showed how to grow roses for their blooms & scents, and use them to living curtains to cover other unsightly elements in a garden.

The World of Peter Rabbit #TheLiteraryGarden Beatrix Potter’s 1902 The Tale of Peter Rabbit became one of the best selling books in history, with translations into 30+ languages and more than 45M copies sold. Pix by Virginia Harold @mobotmuseum.bsky.social

Garden conservation geneticist Christy Edwards recently sat down with stlpublicradio.bsky.social to discuss how she and her colleagues are hand-pollinating the disappearing Mead's milkweed, the primary food source of monarch caterpillars. Click the link to check out the interview: buff.ly/g6GyKRS

Tropical water lily season has arrived 🪷 Stop in to and take a gander at this year's tropical water lily blooms on your next Garden visit! 📸 John Evans Jr. #MOBOTGarden

Experience the vivacious talent and lyrical stylings of The Opera Bell Band on August 29 @mobotmuseum.bsky.social @mobotgarden.bsky.social! Two performances: 11am & 1pm, free with Garden admission, sponsored by Nancy Ridenour www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/sachs-museum...

So chuffed that this album is a result from a performance commission as part of 2024's exhibition KERNELS OF CULTURE!🌽💛

St. Louis Public Radio@stlpublicradio.bsky.social · 2w ago

What started as a solo recording project became one of St. Louis’ wittiest bands. 🎶 Opera Bell Band’s latest album, “A Salute to Corn,” blends catchy tunes, plant science and plenty of humor.

We are thrilled to share that the Missouri Botanical Garden is featured in today's @nytimes.com article on "7 Gardens So Serene, You Won’t Believe They’re in the City"! Read the article and plan your next Garden visits here: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t... @explorestlouis.bsky.social

Join us & stlshakesfest.bsky.social for a special production of TourCo’s 𝘛𝘸𝘰 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘢! 🎭 🗓️ Wednesday, August 5 from 5:30—8 p.m. 📍 Cohen Amphitheatre 🎟 Free admission 🔗 buff.ly/0g60RWc 📸 Mary Lou Olson #MOBOTGarden

Using Smell in the Museum (July 25th) is an international online series with curators, educators, and museum practitioners working with scent as an interpretive tool in museums and cultural heritage spaces. @mobotmuseum.bsky.social curator presenting! fragrancealliancenetwork.com/products/usi...

#TheLiteraryGarden Praised for their wit and charm, Elizabeth von Arnim’s novels were highly successful during her lifetime; at her height she was recognized widely by the mononym “Elizabeth” in both middlebrow and literary circles. However she became neglected by the mid 20th century.

#TheLiteraryGarden Ahead of the special @mobotmuseum.bsky.social evening talk & screening July 16, Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941) authored of 22 books, including The Enchanted April and Elizabeth and her German Garden. This edition on loan from @mobotgarden.bsky.social's Raven Library.

Scents are back @mobotmuseum.bsky.social! Thanks to Weston Adam & Shawn Maher, fantastic garden & book inspired scents are in #TheLiteraryGarden exhibition for you to sniff. Just search out the glass cloches, pick up & sniff inside the dome for the best smells! #InternationalThemedSmellDay

#ACreativeFieldStudy #NaturalGesture A commissioned artist in #TheLiteraryGarden, Dail Chambers is a visual artist and grower/land steward. Her visual art practice is a multimedia exploration in genealogy, women’s narratives and social environmental art.

Today! @mobotmuseum.bsky.social @mobotgarden.bsky.social

Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden@mobotmuseum.bsky.social · last mo.

#Storytime #TheLiteraryGarden Every second Wednesday through March 11, 2027, join Garden staff @mobotmuseum.bsky.social to read plant-ish books. July 8, Carolina Romero will read in both Spanish and English THE TINY SEED/LA SEMILLITA by Eric Carle. www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/story-time-a...

#FlowerGarden by Jodi Harvey on view #TheLiteraryGarden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social With a background in two-dimensional art and a love for reading, Jodi Harvey fell in love with book sculpting over ten years ago. Jodi works from her home and draws inspiration from the story of the books used.

#Storytime #TheLiteraryGarden Every second Wednesday through March 11, 2027, join Garden staff @mobotmuseum.bsky.social to read plant-ish books. July 8, Carolina Romero will read in both Spanish and English THE TINY SEED/LA SEMILLITA by Eric Carle. www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/story-time-a...

Join us Thursday evening July 16 at 6pm in the Farr Auditorium @mobotgarden.bsky.social for a short literary talk & film screening with Dr. Noreen O’Connor, English professor and scholar of author von Arnim. Free with LIGHTFORM evening admission. www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/evening-talk...

11:30 am – 4:30 pm Saturday, June 27th, at @mobotmuseum.bsky.social @mobotgarden.bsky.social Literary Learning Day 🌱 Gardens & Grief in Victorian Literature Garden Admission Free until Noon on Saturdays & Wednesdays to St. Louis City & County residents

Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden@mobotmuseum.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Next event: June 27, 2026 @mobotmuseum.bsky.social Literary Learning Day: Gardens & Grief in Victorian Literature @mobotgarden.bsky.social Join the Mourning Society of St. Louis and Creative Experience @ St. Louis Public Library to learn more: www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/sachs-museum...

Quince, cabbage, melon, & cucumber. Precisely arranged & painted in 1600 by Juan Sanchez Cotán, born OTD in 1560.

#TheLiteraryGarden Chinese ground orchid (Bletilla striata) is one of the best known terrestrial orchids in East Asia. It embodies Chinese horticultural ideals with its elegant flowers: refined, with subtle fragrance, and high moral elegance.

This Saturday! Join us @mobotmuseum.bsky.social and learn more about plants as symbols in Victorian literature and make your own mourning jewelry. Free with @mobotgarden.bsky.social admission (StL city & county residents get in free with proof of residency till noon on Saturdays!). 🌿📚💚

Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden@mobotmuseum.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Next event: June 27, 2026 @mobotmuseum.bsky.social Literary Learning Day: Gardens & Grief in Victorian Literature @mobotgarden.bsky.social Join the Mourning Society of St. Louis and Creative Experience @ St. Louis Public Library to learn more: www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/sachs-museum...

Butler's THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER is featured in #TheLiteraryGarden now on view @mobotmuseum.bsky.social. Plants play a role in this seminal work of #Afrofuturism.

LibraryThing@librarything.com · last mo.

Today is the birthday of African American science fiction author #OctaviaEButler. The winner of numerous Hugo and Nebula Awards, she was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. #💙📚 #Booksky Have you read her work? www.librarything.com/author/butle...

#TheLiteraryGarden Okra is included in Leah Penniman's FARMING WHILE BLACK, featured in the exhibition @mobotmuseum.bsky.social. It exemplifies how recent agricultural guides are addressing equity, food justice, & sustainable agriculture.

#MissouriWildflowerFlorilegium features the work of Jessica Palmer's paper collage series, comprising 100 pieces—each a different species found in Missouri. Pix here: Cardinal flower, Bloodroot, Purple Beardtongue, Fremont's Leather Flower, Tickseed Coreopsis On view now in #TheLiteraryGarden

#TheLiteraryGarden Thanks to everyone who joined us on May 16 for The Sound of Sense and Sensibility: Music from Jane Austen’s Time with Charles Metz and Samantha Arten. The recording is up now at the linktree in bio, or youtu.be/eIo9D7qVBbI?...

From the Pacific Ocean to the Great Lakes, we're celebrating one of America’s most iconic highways: Route 66! 🚗 During its 100-year anniversary, we invite you to learn more about the native flora of Route 66 on our Discover + Share blog: buff.ly/JXm9Ato #MOBOTGarden

"The earth laughs in flowers." — Ralph Waldo Emerson Enjoy the scenes of spring on your next visit to the Garden! The Garden is open daily from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. 📸 Nathan Kwarta #MOBOTGarden