Endangered Tree Seed for the Heartland Harvest Garden

I feel like the Powell Gardens is the caring young child at the end of Dr. Seuss’s classic book “The Lorax.” We learned today we will receive 5 EXTREMELY RARE seeds of the Ozark Chinkapin (Castanea ozarkensis); a tree that once thrived in the Ozarks and Ouchita Mountains to our south. Its Missouri endangered species … Read More

American Holly (Ilex opaca) is probably the toughest broadleaf evergreen tree for our climate. Here is one of our largest trees (20 feet tall; remember we are a young garden!) — you can see it out the windows from the gallery / Conifer Room of the Visitor Center’s north wing. It is studded with bright … Read More