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Plant Information

• Noteworthy Plant Collections at MBG
  The Garden is home to many fine plant collections. Throughout 2009, starting with our camellia collection, we will periodically feature many of these fine, noteworthy collections.
• Bloom Time Summary!
  View bloom times for our major groups of plants and their peak bloom. You can view by plant name, bloom time sequence, or just our top 20 plant groups.
• Chip and June's Garden Blog and Kemper Highlights!
  Follow Chip Tynan's and June Hutson's Garden blogs and view monthly highlights, featured classes, stunning images, and more. Blogs updated weekly.
• Slideshows!
  View useful slideshows online! Check out our Top 10 Gourd Birdhouse Ornaments on our 2007 Holiday Tree.
• Questions and Answers by Chip Tynan!
  Searchable database of over 1,700 gardening questions answered by the Garden's Chip Tynan over the past 12 years.
• Spring 2009 Classes!
  Starting January 19, check back for a wonderful listing of new and favorite classes in horticulture, crafts, art, cooking and more including a new line up for the weekend Gardening Blitz on February 21 and 22. View our Fall-Winter brochure. (pdf) 6.1 M.
• Updated Pesticide Information
  Our information on common pesticides available to homeowners has been completely updated!
• Kemper Factsheets
  Our popular factsheets on over 50 subjects formerly only available by purchase in the Kemper Center for Home Gardening are now available online free of charge!
• Nursery Inventories
  Plant inventories of participating nursery and garden centers. With search features!

• Horticultural Answer Service
  Master Gardeners provide personalized answers to your specific phone-in gardening questions, 9 a.m. to 12 noon, Monday through Friday. Call (314) 577-5143.
• Kemper Center Plant Doctors
  Bring in a sample of your sick plant and let the Master Gardeners at the Plant Doctor desk diagnose your problem and provide treatment recommendations. This is a walk-in service from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Service is free with Garden admission. Try to include leaves and flowers representative of the entire plant.

• Master Search Page
  Allows quick access to search for information on plants in the PlantFinder or Plants of Merit; find cultural, pest, and problem information and controls; find images of plants taken in the Garden along with bloom time data; locate information on a Missouri or southern Illinois nursery, garden center, or plant care business by a part of its name.
• PlantFinder
  Look up, view a photo and read about the over 4,000 plants which are growing or have been grown in the Kemper Center display gardens (plus selected additions) by garden location, scientific name or common name. Search online for plants that meet any of 40 characteristics or uses including: height, bloom time, flower color, good fall color, attracts hummingbirds, and more. Produce individualized lists of plants. Click HERE -- NEW! Access our detailed pest information on plants in the "Problems" section of each plant description. Information on plants Abelia - Cercis is currently available.
• Featured Plants with Expert Comments
  Read comment by our Expert's on plants for many special uses such as "Best Bulbs","Native Trees for Missouri Landscape", and others.
• Plastic Pot Recycling
  Learn about the Garden's innovative program that turns discarded plastic gardening pots and trays into timbers for building retaining walls and more! Information on how to order is also found here.
• Vegetables of the World
  Learn about many "vegetables of the world" that have been grown at the Center for Home Gardening.
• Squash Display
  View over 150 varieties of squash displayed at the Kemper Center for Home Gardening in 2003 or 2004.
• MBG Plant Collection Database
  Search the Garden's plant collection database, find where a plant is growing in the Garden and read about the plant and its culture (click on Kemper number in last column, e.g. A100, when available.)
• NurseryTracker
  This program helps gardeners search through over 1700 Missouri and Southern Illinois nurseries, garden centers, landscapers, and plant care businesses by name, kinds of plants or services offered, region or zipcode area. You can also search for businesses that offer plant specialties or services in your area.
• HortLine
  Find information on over 300 gardening topics written for the lower Midwest. Topics are grouped by plant categories.
• Plant Pest Categories
  Short articles on the major categories of plant pests. For more detailed information on specific pests, please refer to the list of IPM - Integrated Pest Management problems below.
• IPM - Integrated Pest Management
  Diagnostic and control measures for 170 of the most common insect, disease and environmental problems encounterd in Missouri as compiled by the Center for Home Gardening Plant Doctor service.
• Plants of Merit
  Describes over 100 plants identified by Garden staff and regional horticulturists that have outstanding qualities and dependable performance but are underutilized in the Midwest.
• Plants in Bloom and PODCAST
  View plants currently in flower at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Listen to narration and with a click of your mouse, access detailed information on many of the plants. Updated monthly. You can also subscribe to our monthly podcast of the plants in bloom! View bloom data on over 3800 plants in the Garden.
• Gardening Tips Calendar
  View a "to do" list of gardening tasks to perform each month in your garden. Categorized by plant groups, e.g., ornamentals, lawns, fruits, vegetables, etc. Why not print it off each month and post it on the refrigerator! Check tasks off when they have been completed. Don't forget to assign some tasks to other family members as well.
• Flowering Annuals Performance Trials
  View the performance results of over 300 cultivars of flowering annuals tested.
• New!-Pests and Problems Calendar
  Get general and specific information of the most common pests and problems for each month of the year based on our experience at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
• MBG Virtual Garden Tours
  Tour the many gardens of MBG on-line.
• XPLOR
  Links to University of Missouri Outreach and Extension gardening information.
• St. Louis Master Gardeners
  Learn about the St. Louis Master Gardener program in St. Louis.