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Fake Rock Guys

Brothers Manufacture Boulders for Backyard Beautification

By Dawn Klingensmith

Nature forms new rocks when wind, water, or glaciers deposit layers of sediment, which gradually cement into a solid mass. The process takes thousands of years. At Replications Unlimited, rocks are formed when fast-curing urethane is sprayed into a mold. Once the urethane is solid, the mold is removed, and a fake rock is born. The process takes minutes. ...... Read more >

Powell Gardens Annual Auction

Only once in a blue moon do plant collectors find botanical treasures such as entire collections for a themed garden, new cultivars ready for a name of the buyer’s choosing, and never-before public offerings from growers and botanical gardens across the country in one place. But they can at the Under a Blue Moon Garden Party and Rare Plant Auction on June 17 at Powell Gardens. Not available in local nurseries, many offerings are rare and avail…... Read more >

Chic and Modern Prefab Homes

Architect Rocio Romero’s original LV Home rests lightly on a bluff above the Pacific in Laguna Verde, Chile. The house is a rectangular box, sheathed in glass and corrugated steel. One imagines the glowing box inhabited by fabulous people sipping drinks while resting on modern furniture.

This has been the stereotype of modern architecture: built for the rich and exotic. Rocio, however, wants you to imagine yourself living in one of these e…... Read more >

State Flower

By John Fisher

Missourians required seven years and the involvement of numerous statewide organizations to agree on a state flower. Marie L. Goodman offered the first suggestion in a January 1916 Missouri State Horticultural Society meeting. They selected a committee to solicit nominations, each of which had to ensure that the flower was beautiful in color and form, native to the state, abundant, and distributed statewide. In December 191…... Read more >