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The Missouri Botanical Garden is one of the most spectacular conservation organizations in the world. It’s always a wonderful place to visit, but during the holiday season there are special events for everyone.
***Christmas Carols in the Garden
You’ll find Santa in his sleigh (he leaves his classic used Ford cars in the garage for the season), there will be musicians and carolers, families can enjoy roasted chestnuts—it’s all part
Five choirs, a brass ensemble, a jazz combo, and a harpist will perform throughout Garden grounds. Mulled cider, hot chocolate, and cookies will be available for purchase, and the Garden Gate Shop will be open for holiday shopping. (Drive the SUV or truck so you can load up with goodies!) The Etc. Senior Theater Company will perform “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” by Dylan Thomas at Tower Grove House both days on-the-hour from 1–4 p.m.
You will want to be sure to check out the special display of gingerbread houses.
Regular Garden admission rates apply. Garden members are admitted free.
Saturday-Sunday, December 12 13, 1 to 5 p.m.
***Holiday Trimmings at the Kemper Center
Saturday, December 5– Sunday, January 3, 2010, regular Garden hours
You must come see the stunning 15-foot live balsam fir in the Kemper Center for Home Gardening featuring creative decorations made from gourds and other natural materials grown in the Garden. This year’s theme is inspired by the Garden, with gourds decorated in honor of their 150th anniversary.
***Kwanzaa, December 30
Kwanzaa is a non-religious holiday that derives its name from the Swahili term matunda ya kwanza, meaning “fruits of the harvest.” This annual event honors African traditions and history, celebrating the harvest feast before the dry season. You will be dazzled by the display of fruits, vegetables, and grains overflowing on the Garden’s feast table..
Kwanzaa Ceremony, 12:00 p.m. and 3 p.m.
This ceremony will explain the holiday’s origins as one symbolic candle on the kinara is lit for each principle. Immediately following each ceremony, storyteller Janice “Mama” Katambwa will use costumes and percussion instruments to relay African tales.
Hopefully you are aware of the wonderful attraction that is located in South St. Louis – the Missouri Botanical Garden. Founded in 1859, it is the nation's oldest botanical garden in continuous operation and a National Historic Landmark.
The Garden is a center for botanical research and science education, as well as an oasis in the city of St. Louis. The Garden offers 79 acres of beautiful horticultural display, including a 14-acre Japanese strolling garden, Henry Shaw's original 1850 estate home, and one of the world's largest collections of rare and endangered orchids.
The year 2009 marks the Garden’s sesquicentennial anniversary. For over 150 years, the Garden has been an oasis in the city, a place of beauty and family fun—and also a center for education, science, and conservation.
The Garden is beautiful at all times of the year, and the coming holiday season offers even more reasons to come for a visit. Pile Grandma and the kids into your spacious Ford Expedition and experience first hand the beauty of this local landmark.
Gardenland Express: Wednesday, November 26–Sunday, January 4, 2009
One of St. Louis’s most beloved holiday traditions returns with Gardenland Express, the Garden’s annual holiday flower and train show. Be swept away to a wintery wonderland in the mountains of Vermont.
Tiny villages, ski resorts, and covered bridges dot the living landscape of dwarf conifers, evergreens, succulents, and moss. Eight G-scale model trains chug through the scenery surrounded by hundreds of colorful poinsettias and seasonal flowers.
Gardenland Express is a temporary installation, created fresh each year by the Garden’s talented team of horticulturists and volunteers.
Victorian Christmas at Tower Grove House - All throughout December
Tower Grove House, the Victorian country home of Garden founder Henry Shaw will be decorated with wreaths, garlands, floral centerpieces, greenery and a holiday tree the month of December.
Christmas Carols in the Garden - December 13 – 1 4
Santa in his sleigh, musicians and carolers, and roasting chestnuts—it’s all part of this celebration of the sounds of the season.
Five choirs, a brass ensemble, a jazz combo, and a harpist will perform throughout Garden grounds. Mulled cider, hot chocolate, and cookies will be available for purchase, and the Garden Gate Shop will be open for holiday shopping. Leave the Focus at home and bring the Ford SUV, because you are going to want to load up on the fabulous gifts you will find for everyone in the family.
