Tag: St. Louis

  • Thursday, September 22 – Sunday, September 25 – What’s Out There Weekend: St. Louis

    What’s Out There® Weekend  – St. Louis and the Missouri River Valley will bring to light the unique landscape legacy and local character of the city as reflected by its publicly accessible parks, gardens, plazas, cemeteries, memorials, and neighborhoods. Working in collaboration with Magnificent Missouri and myriad local partners, WOT St. Louis will engage a large and diverse audiences (typically 1,000+), offering two days of free, expert-led tours of more than two dozen sites that demonstrate the region’s diverse cultural landscape legacy, encouraging participants to discover the little-known design history of places they may pass every day. The Cultural Landscape Foundation is renowned for these weekend excursions and if you can carve out the time. For complete tour information visit https://www.tclf.org/whats-out-there-weekend-st-louis

  • Wednesday, June 28 – Sunday, July 2 – 70th Annual International Lily Show & Symposium

    The North American Lily Society will hold the 70th Annual International Lily Show & Symposium beginning Wednesday, June 28 at noon and running through Sunday, July 2 at 3 pm at the Sheraton Westport Chalet in St. Louis, Missouri.  Featured events will include Dr. Wilbert Ronald on A Passion for Lilies, a Judges symposium with Kathy Anderson and Warren Summers, a Species Lily Preservation meeting, a tour of Bellefontaine Cemetery, Jan Riggenbach’s lecture Landscaping with Lilies: Complementary Companions, Judith Freeman on Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed … Something Blue?, a tour of the Missouri Botanical Garden, and the keynote address by Dr. Peter Zale on Lily Species Around the World and in Cultivation.  There will be auctions, pollen swaps, demonstrations, and much more.  For Registration and complete information visit http://nals2017.lilies.org/events.html#wed