Sophia M. Sachs Butterly House
/After a day at the Missouri Botanical Garden – we headed to the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House near St. Louis MO the next morning. Its another facility that is part of the Missouri Botanical Garden. We were there a few minutes before it opened and walked around the outside gardens. It included a giant butterfly and caterpillar sculpture!
There was also a butterfly bench like the ones in Brookside Gardens in Maryland!
There were many fall plants blooming too – including cone flowers, butterfly weed, and goldenrod.
We entered the building as it opened. Everything had a butterfly theme – even a wall sculpture near the restrooms.
The conservatory is a year-round climate-controlled space for butterflies. We were familiar with many of the butterflies there because of our experiences at Brookside. Some of the butterflies were tagged – not sure why. We enjoyed watching the children with their families experience the butterflies – noticing butterflies in the air…looking to see them on the fruit or in the foliage.
The exit from the conservatory leads to another garden with a water feature and sculpture of a child with butterflies on her hand and knee.
It was a good morning activity. We enjoyed photographing the gardens and butterflies (would be even more appealing in the winter when the conservatory would be pleasantly warm compared to outdoors) and we headed home afterward.
