(KTVI) – The hands of time were turned back today at the Missouri Botanical Garden ... still standing that Shaw planted himself in the late 1800’s. ‘We needed a gift to the city,’ says ...

ST. LOUIS — The Missouri Botanical Garden is celebrating its founder Henry Shaw’s birthday Wednesday with a gift to anyone who wants to enter: free admission. Stroll the beautiful gardens ...

In 1859 he opened his garden, known affectionately as Shaw`s Garden and more formally as the Missouri Botanical Garden, to the public; upon his death in 1889, the garden was willed to a self ...

Forty years later, in June 1859, the wealthy former businessman-turned-philanthropist opened on the land he so loved a botanical garden for his adopted city’s residents. The treasure Shaw ...