Powell Gardens is a 915-acre (3.70 km2) botanical garden in Kingsville, Missouri, USA, 30 miles (48 km) east of Kansas City. It features 6,000 varieties of plants, with 225,000 plants in seasonal displays, and is open to the public, for a fee, during daylight hours.
The garden dates to 1948, when the land was purchased by George E. Powell, Sr. Since then, the site has been a dairy farm, a Boy Scout camp, an agricultural and natural resource center, and since 1988, a botanical garden with the following areas:
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—Anthony Powell (b. 1905)
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—Robert Duncan (b. 1919)