Nestled within an expansive neighborhood backed by the beautiful rolling hills of Wildwood, MO, Betsy and Tom Meier’s home is tucked into a giant hillside full of mature hardwood trees that tower over their back yard like an amphitheater. Their landscape begged for a waterfall, and that’s precisely why garden designers Caleb Bauer and his brother Josh were there. Owners of Bauer Falls, a St.

For a BIG birthday, many women would long for some bling or a trip to an exotic locale. This Town and Country homeowner requested some rocks of a different kind. Specifically, she wanted a rocky waterfall, more water in her backyard pond and more fish.

From the time she began interning at the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1974 until she retired two years ago after 20 years as the head of the Garden’s Kemper Center for Home Gardening, June Hutson has been tending plants, loving them and keeping them healthy.

    The license plate on his Toyota Tacoma pickup reads “conifer.” That is really all you need to know. Confers are Kerry Wright’s gardening passion. Simply described as “cone-bearing trees with evergreen needlelike or scalelike leaves,” Kerry’s spectacular, manicured one-acre garden near Festus is home to more than 500 varieties of conifers. They are beautifully woven into a lush textural tapestry incorporating sculpture, antique artifacts, stone pillars, perennials and annuals.

All of November

Continue watering evergreens until the ground freezes. Soils must not be dry when winter arrives. 

Remove the spent flowers and foliage of perennials after they are damaged by frost.

November 1 – 15

Fallen, spoiled or mummified fruits should be cleaned up from the garden and destroyed by burying.

Plant tulips now.

November 15 – 30

Set up bird feeders. Birds appreciate a source of unfrozen drinking water during the winter.