Missouri Botanical Garden

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Dating to 1859, these gardens hold a 14-acre Japanese garden, a carnivorous plant bog, a Victorian-style hedge maze and the oldest continuously operating greenhouse west of the Mississippi. It's at the north end of Tower Grove Park, near I-44 exit 287B and just east of The Hill.

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