Bowood Farms and Café Osage will be closed for Independence Day.

2:00 pm FREE

Come take part in staff-run tours of the herbs, sedums, growing up on the Bowood Farms roof tops!

2:00 pm FREE

Tom Terrific returns to Bowood Farms to walk and talk among butterfly-loving perennials in the garden-center courtyard and, of course, to tell you how to attract more beautiful butterflies to your yard!

2 to 4 p.m., FREE

Fall planting for spring blooms isn't just for bulbs. Bowood will tell you how to plant peonies and irises in the fall, along with such spring companions as hellebores, California poppies and Forget-me-nots, for a ready-made spring-blooming perennial garden.

2 to 4 p.m., FREE

Learn the best ways to start or renovate your lawn at the very best time of year -- EARLY FALL! Soil-test information comes from Nathan Brandt, new extension horticulturist for St. Louis County, and seed-sowing advice from St. Louis' own lawn-seed czar, Glenn Kraemer of G.R. Robinson Seed Co., based in University City. The first three guests to the event each get a discount on a soil test and a free five-pound bag of George's Magic Mix grass seed.

All week, FREE (plus 10% off houseplants to customers with '70s style)

In honor of National Indoor Plant Week -- Sept. 14-19 -- come in to Bowood Farms wearing an item of '70s clothing and get 10 percent off your choice of houseplant. Groovy indoor plants, even macrame' plant hangers, are back in fashion, but with an updated twist at Bowood. Come see them, pick up a houseplant handout and ask our staff questions about your own houseplant care.

Judging will start promptly at 4:30 pm

This contest is open to home gardeners, community gardeners, children, school groups – to anyone who's growing their own pumpkins for private use, not for sale. -- The six categories in this contest are: (1) Best Overall Pumpkin (2) Largest Pumpkin (3) Smallest Pumpkin (at maturity) (4) Best Pumpkin Grown by a Child (12 and under) (5) Best Pumpkin Relative (melon, squash or gourd) (6) Goofiest Pumpkin ("pumpkins with possibilities" – such as celebrity look-alikes, or spooky faces, or just supremely odd and wacky shapes) For Tips on Growing Pumpkins From Seed, Click here. For Guidelines and Entry Form, Click here.

4:00 pm FREE

Come back to Bowood Farms for the second-annual pre-Halloween Boo-wood! event, complete with scavenger hunt, pumpkin carving, free snacks and the new Boo-wood! Pumpkin Contest, judged by Chip Tynan, of the Missouri Botanical Garden, and Nathan Brandt of University of Missouri Extension!