Botanical Gardens

Question 1

What is the fundamental mission of botanical gardens?

Answer 1

To collect, preserve, and display plants for beauty, scientific research, and educaiton

Question 2

What is a herbaria?

Answer 2

A collection of dried plants

Question 3

What were some of the first botanical gardens?

Answer 3

Aristotles peripatetic school gardens (335BC), other gardens in china, egypt, etc.

Question 4

Middle Ages and Botanical Gardens

Answer 4

450-1450AD
Monasteries preserved botanical knowledge

Question 5

Age of Enlightenment/Renaissance and Botanical Gardens

Answer 5

1685-1815 AD
First botanical garden with more of a modern mission was Orto Botanico and Padua, Italy (1545)

Question 6

Boboli Gardens

Answer 6

Florence, Italy, 1550
Served as the template for a lot of botanical gardens we see today

Question 7

Captain James Cook

Answer 7

Enabled british colonialism
Sailed in the pacific, to new zealand and australia
Was a naval officer and cartographer

Question 8

Second half of 1800s and Botanical Gardens

Answer 8

Moved away from elites and towards public acessibility
showcased displays and garden, landscape, and horticulture advice
provided opportunities for teaching the public

Question 9

Henry Shaw

Answer 9

Founded mobot in 1859
Came to stl to start a hardware business, retired at 40 and started buying land. Spent 10yrs travelling the world and getting ideas with the vision to give the garden back to the community of stl upon his death

Question 10

What is the oldest continually operating botanical garden in the us?

Answer 10

mobot