Missouri Botanical Garden — We usually leave the planting and maintenance of...

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We usually leave the planting and maintenance of display beds to our outstanding horticulture division, but last week staff from the Garden’s communications, education and institutional advancement teams got the opportunity to employ their green thumbs in planting seasonal succulent displays in our Pincushion Garden.

The Pincushion Garden resurrects a “lost art” of garden design once common in traditional Victorian displays. Each summer horticulturists arrange approximately 25,000 succulent plants in geometric designs, a process that can take up to two weeks. Thanks to additional help from volunteers, this year’s planting was completed in just 11 days!

Photos by Jennifer Kleeshulte.

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