St Louis - Missouri Botanical Garden

2 mi. south-east of Forest Park is the large Tower Grove Park. On its north side, along Tower Grove Avenue, is the beautiful Missouri Botanical Garden, also known as the Shaw Garden after the businessman and botanist Henry Shaw (1800-89) who laid it out in 1859. In the south-east part of the gardens are the richly appointed Tower Grove House, Henry Shaw's "garden house". The gardens themselves comprise a lovely rose garden, the rather unusual Climatron (erected 1960) for tropical plants, a Japanese Garden, an "aqua-tunnel" under a water-lily pool and a herbarium.