Missouri Botanical Garden

In recent decades, climate change has shifted when Missouri wildflowers bloom. Once-forgotten data found in the archives of the Missouri Botanical Garden have become a springboard for St. Louis scientists studying how climate change may affect the survival of native plants in the future.

Missouri Botanical Garden garden researchers delve into the center's conservation efforts in Madagascar. Ecologist Adam Smith studied the island's deforestation and found that all of Madagascar's rainforests could disappear by 2080. Botanist Jeannie Raharimampionona explains how MoBot's protected sites in Madagascar aim to combat this prediction.

Tad Yankoski, Missouri Botanical Garden’s senior entomologist and "bug dad," returns to the program to dismantle cockroaches' bad reputation and detail some of their positive attributes.

Missouri Botanical Garden President Peter Wyse Jackson and Senior Vice President of Science Jim Miller share examples of the garden's new plant discoveries worldwide, and talk about the overarching view and particularities of this work.

The fall foliage looks a bit different from that of past years. Among the golden, warm-toned hues sprucing up the St. Louis region for autumn are a noticeable number of green leaves. Daria McKelvey of the Missouri Botanical Garden explains why.

Missouri Botanical Garden horticulturist Susie Ratliff has worked at the center's Climatron since 1997. She'll share tidbits about the geodesic dome's iconic history and all the care that goes into its living collection.

Live cultural events are typically a big part of summer life for many in the St. Louis region. But this year, musicals at the Muny, free concerts and…

Tad Yankoski is an entomologist at the Missouri Botanical Garden's Butterfly House. His job mainly consists of tending to the site’s cockroaches, beetles,…

In between all the news updates about the COVID-19 pandemic and protests against police brutality, a totally different story jumped out from the St. Louis…

St. Louis museum and zoo lovers can start planning visits once again.The Metropolitan Zoological Park and Museum District confirmed Tuesday that all of…