Tour - Native Shade

Walking/teaching tour through the Native Shade Garden at M.B.G.

Additional Information

Walking/teaching tour through the Martha Symington Native Shade gardens at Missouri Botanical Garden. Outdoor program focused on the care and cultivation of Native plants in your home garden. Program duration is approximately 1 hour. Program fee is $50.00.

Instructor Information

Betty Struckhoff and Lil Collins
Phone: Betty: (314)966-8404; Lil: (314)963-8398

Betty is the 2005 winner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Native Garden Contest. She volunteers at Shaw Nature Reserve, is a Wild Ones Natural Landscaper and was a judge for the 2007 Use of Native Plants in Home Landscape.


Lil has been a Master Gardener since 2003. She is an education naturalist at the Litzsinger Road Ecology Center and volunteers there doing native plant restoration.