@mobotgarden's Museum, Now on view: THE LITERARY GARDEN The Cultivation of Plants & Gardens in Narratives Through March 31, 2027 https://xitter.cf/t.co/7pzoRBSRCl
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Opening Friday May 8 @mobotmuseum!🌿📚The Literary Garden: The Cultivation of Plants & Gardens in Narratives (till March 31, 2027) explores how cultures represent plants through literary media by highlighting @mobotgarden collections.
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#TheLiteraryGarden Herbals are texts that offer accumulated knowledge on plants and how they are prepared/used medicinally. They were the first books to be printed in China and Europe. In 1597, Gerard published his botanical compendium, THE HERBALL. Via @mobotgarden Raven Library
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#TheLiteraryGarden Gerard listed 3 types of strawberry—red, white, green. It is likely William Shakespeare used Gerard’s HERBALL; the strawberry depicted here was a symbol in his tragic play OTHELLO (1603).
Pix 1, 2 by Virginia Harold
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#TheLiteraryGarden A member of the Rose family, the wild strawberry is a fruiting plant that grows throughout the Northern Hemisphere and has been enjoyed for its fruit as long as 6,000 years ago. They spread mainly through runners, but also through seeds.
@mobotgarden Herbarium
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#TheLiteraryGarden #HappyHolidays Grateful thanks to @mobotgarden's Members' Board for taking inspiration from @mobotmuseum's current bookish exhibition for the holiday display tree!🌿📚💚🎄
Greetings of the season, and best wishes for a literary holiday season!
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Membership Appreciation Week starts NOW! 🌿💚
November 9–15, save 20% on new, renewing, and gift memberships (Individual through Festival levels).
Gift memberships can be activated later, making them perfect for the holidays!
Take advantage of the offer: missouribotanicalgarden.org/…
#TheLiteraryGarden VEGETABLE LITERACY (2013) by Deborah Madison invites readers to explore vegetables via their botanical families. She advocates for observation, experimentation, and respect for plants as living ingredients, connecting kitchens with gardens and food systems.
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Spring blooms start in the fall! 🌷
Our Horticulture team planted more than 84,000 bulbs across the Garden, including 42,000+ tulips and 13,275 daffodils.
We can't wait to see them bloom next spring! 🌼
#TheLiteraryGarden De Re Coquinaria is the oldest surviving cookbook from the ancient Roman period (1st c. CE). Recipes include herbs, vegetables, and spices, such as lovage, used to make the dishes more flavorful. Lovage (Levisticum officinale) @mobotgarden Herbarium
#TheLiteraryGarden Kitab al-Tabikh (The Book of Dishes) is one of the 1st cookbooks providing culinary practices of the Islamic Arabian Peninsula. Written by Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq (10th c.), it highlights herbs such as galangal. Galangal (Alpinia galanga) @mobotgarden Herbarium
#TheLiteraryGarden The Joy of Cooking is considered one of the most influential American cookbooks. Irma Rombauer, a St. Louis native who lived in the Shaw neighborhood adjacent to @mobotgarden, designed the book to be very simple and easy to understand. Pix: @virginia_harold
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#TheLiteraryGarden Cecilia M. Gibbs is one of Australia's children's authors and illustrators. Her villains, the big bad banksia men, have scared generations of Australian children but they are only the ripe cobs of bushes in the genus Banksia. Peter H. Raven Library @mobotgarden
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#TheLiteraryGarden There are about 180 Banksia species found only in Australia, belonging to the macadamia family (Proteaceae). Each cob supports hundreds of tiny nectar secreting florets but few florets are pollinated and only a few hard fruits develop.
@mobotgarden Herbarium
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth Observance
November 6-8, 2026; 9 – 5 p.m.
Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center @mobotgarden
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#BooksThatBloom #TheLiteraryGarden Harlem Renaissance writer Effie Lee Newsome was renowned as a writer of children’s poems and illustrator for magazines and newspapers, though her only book of poetry was Gladiola Garden: Poems of Outdoors and Indoors for Second Grade Readers.
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#TheLiteraryGarden The Black-eyed Susan personifies the young girl depicted in the poem “To a Little Gold Daisy.” These flowers are attractive to a wide variety of pollinators, including butterflies, and play host to the larvae of several butterfly species. @mobotgarden Herbarium
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#BooksThatBloom #TheLiteraryGarden Barbie is an iconic American toy, whose world building includes many options for professions and creative play through the fashions and toy sets designed for the character. These objects highlight the doll’s foray into gardening 🌿📚💚👒👩🌾
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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden retweeted
Fall color is just beginning to appear across the Garden! 🍁
Take a look at this week’s changing colors as we welcome the start of the fall season.
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Spooky season has roots!🎃
Explore the eerie folklore and Halloween traditions surrounding plants with Holly Huebenschmidt, director of our Peter H. Raven Library.
The Library welcomes visitors by appointment or through quarterly tours!
Learn more here: missouribotanicalgarden.org/…
#TheLiteraryGarden Published by the MBG Press! Pizotito & the Wonders of the Dry Forest is co-written by Laura Toro González, an ecologist @mobotgarden. Rosie & Pogo Visit the Missouri Botanical Garden is by Liz Byrde, a therapeutic horticulture coordinator at the Garden.
#TheLiteraryGarden Sal tree (Shorea robusta), Nepal
@mobotgarden. The Sal tree grows across South China, Myanmar, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and India, forming Sal forests. Sal trees & forests are culturally, economically, and religiously crucial for the Eastern Himalayas region.
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