06 October 2011

Linnean House at Missouri Botanical Gardens

The Linnean House in St. Louis, Missouri is the oldest continuously operating greenhouse west of the Mississippi River.  It is also the only remaining greenhouse in the Missouri Botanical Garden property built during Henry Shaw's lifetime.  The Linnean House was built in 1882; Shaw, the garden's founder, died in 1890.

The greenhouse was originally built to overwinter citrus trees and bushes, but today houses many subtropical cacti and camellias.  Camellias steal the show in late winter with their blooms, and several of these plants in the Linnean House date back to the 1930s and 1940s.

The greenhouse was named in honor of Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern nomenclature or "the father of taxonomy."  The Linnean House has been through several renovations before arriving full-circle at it's original design and purpose.  The house has also endured a major hailstorm in 1927, which spurred one of the renovations.



This photo is done with an almost HDR processing "look" to overcome the horrible skies with which I had to deal last week.  I like how it turned out.  Please comment with your opinion, too, as I may dabble a bit more with this technique in the future.

4 comments:

  1. Thank you for stopping by our Colorado blog. We have too many blogs and need to cut back. We'll still be running Ocala Daily Photo, Stone Creek, and Images - The Art of Photography.

    I'm not sure where you were in Colorado, but it's likely you were on the Arkansas.

    Your blog is very beautiful also. I've seen photos of the Missouri Botanical Gardens before and have been mightily impressed. Best wishes to you!

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  2. Names like Eleven Point and Seven Point may ring a bell for you....near Breckinridge, I believe. However, we were all over the place those two weeks. Rafting the Arkansas, hiking the Maroon Bells, rapelling the Gunnison, and hiking again in Great Sand Dunes. It was a phenomenal adventure, and one of the prettiest states I've been through.

    Chip

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  3. Nice shot for a modified HDR. It came out very well. Thanks for stopping by my blog and I will be visiting yours often.

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  4. Thank you for the compliment, Bruce. Hope to chat more in the future.

    Chip

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