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Visitors will often find the Cherbonnier
English Woodlawn Garden's trees, flowers, and other vegetation
familiar except there's much more variety here. Stately Oaks,
Cottonwoods, Ruby Red Horse Chestnuts, Hickories are just a few of
the trees to be found in this garden along with squirrels and other wildlife.
If you want to know the difference between a Black Oak and a Red
Oak or a White Oak and a Pin Oak, this is the place to go.
But if something more exotic appeals to you there's even a whole section
of insect eating plants but you won't find it in the English Woodlawn Garden.
This is a great place to go to get
away from it all. And even better if you are planning on landscaping
your home. So how did Shaw's Botanical Gardens get its start?
It all came from the fertile imagination and hard work of Mid Nineteenth
century philanthropist, Henry Shaw who made the gardens present day grounds
his country home. After planting thousands of trees and shrubs,
Henry opened the botanical gardens to the public in 1859. Years
later, he died and his mausoleum was erected in the botanical gardens.
The gardens became his estate both in life and in death. Its privately
funded even to this day.
The purpose of this page is not
to cover Shaw's Botanical Gardens in depth but to present a brief overview
with a few links to sites where others have covered it much more extensively.
Hopefully you will find some guidance here along with the other sites comprising
Jack Corbett's Ten Wonders of St Louis which will give both the visitor
and the St Louisan alike a keener appreciation for this great city
that is often lost or forgotten.
The
Missouri Botanical Gardens Web Page
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