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The 2024 Holiday Flower and Train Show

I think this year’s Holiday Flower and Train Show at the Missouri Botanical Garden was the best one ever! I don’t know if it was just how the displays were set up, or if it was the collection of Garden building replicas in the center of the room, but it was especially captivating and I loved it!

Seriously, the replicas…they’re outstanding!

The Victorian decorations on the Christmas trees were lovely:

In addition to the replica buildings, there were plenty of other buildings set up in different vignettes representing different types of locations, from farms to towns.

The greater room was beautifully decorated, too:

I don’t care how old I get, I will never tire of seeing model trains running through a Christmas village!

2024-25 School Year–Week Fourteen

Fun things first…we spent a morning at the Missouri Botanical Garden, and checked out the Holiday Flower and Train Show while we were there…it was excellent!

Ladybug identified fallacies with proof by lack of evidence in logic. In psychology she read more about memory. Her study of US geography and culture focused on the Spanish-American War, unions, and WWI. She continued to read A Tale of Two Cities. In writing, she practiced writing both a thesis and an anti-thesis for different topics. We read Benedict of Nursia and Benedictine monasticism in religion.

Chickadee solved for mean, median, and mode in pre-algebra. She learned more about the fossil record in science. We continued to read The Trojan War. In history, she learned about some of the European wars that spilled over into the New World…we’re getting close to the American Revolution! We finished reading The Wizard of Oz, and made a special recipe from The Wizard of Oz: The Official Cookbook…”Magic Granita Slushies.” The slushy itself was made with lemon and lime juice and zest mixed with a simple syrup, but the magic was the effect of the blue butterfly pea tea syrup turning the concoction purple!

Just a short week next week…Happy Thanksgiving!

Chickadee Thursday

We had so much fun checking out the Holiday Flower and Train Show at the Missouri Botanical Garden yesterday…it might be the best display we’ve ever seen!

Gardenland Express 2019

I was a little worried that we weren’t going to make it to the Gardenland Express holiday flower and train show at the Missouri Botanical Garden this year. The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas was so short, and December was so busy, we just couldn’t find the time. Finally, Saturday morning, we were able to venture out, and I’m glad we did, because the theme of a Victorian-style holiday with a heavy emphasis on oranges (The Linnean House, the oldest greenhouse west of the Mississippi, was originally built as an orangery), was unique and fun! I really loved the unexpected color palette and the local landmarks on display!

And of course I look for any chance I can find to take a picture of the Fab Five:

Merry Christmas!

Garden Landmarks at Gardenland Express

We always look forward to visiting the Gardenland Express Holiday Flower and Train Show at the Missouri Botanical Garden, and I think this year’s show was my favorite yet! I especially liked it because it contains so many garden landmarks:

The rest of the display is quite lovely, too…I really enjoyed the flocked trees!

I’m always amazed by how much attention to detail goes into this show…I can’t wait to see what they have planned for next year!

The Linnean House–December

And just like, we’ve made it through another series of “MoBot through the Year” photos!

Just kidding. Kind of. When I saw the Linnean House in miniature at the Gardenland Express Holiday Flower and Train Show, I knew I had to get a picture of it. Here’s the real picture to round out 2018:

I’m still considering my options for my fifth year of monthly photos at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Right now, the Ottoman Garden and the English Woodland Garden at the top of my list, but you’ll have to wait until 2019 to see what I choose!

Gardenland Express

It’s train show time at the Missouri Botanical Garden!

This is the third year we’ve visited Gardenland Express, and I love that each show has been very different from the last. Different buildings come out each time, and different decorations. This year has a Mexican theme, which is obvious, even beyond the expected poinsettias.

Of course, it’s not just a train show…it’s also a flower show. It’s so nice to see so many colorful varieties at this time of year!

There are other lovely decorations, too, including a poinsettia-covered Christmas tree!

This is such a fun part of the Christmas activities at the Garden, and you could spend a whole afternoon just searching for all the little details hidden away in the scenes!

Gardenland Express

This is only the second year we visited the Gardenland Express Holiday Flower and Train Show at the Missouri Botanical Garden, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I was pretty sure the theme would be different (it was), but how about the displays themselves? Would they be the same? (They weren’t.)

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This year’s theme is “Home for the Holidays,” and focuses on four plant families from around the world, which include popular holiday plants. It was fun to see familiar buildings and flowers from last year arranged in new ways…it was like visiting an entirely new town!

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Another fun Christmas event at the Missouri Botanical Garden is the Gardenland Express Holiday Flower and Train Show. In addition to charming vignettes depicting different wintry scenes, there are conifers from around the world, poinsettias, and other beautiful flowers:

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It’s amazing to me how much there can be to do at the Botanical Garden during a time of year when there is so little life outside. Christmastime is definitely full of fun activities there, however, so it’s worth your time to stop by and check it out!