Humans love to celebrate anniversaries of any kind.

Anniversaries celebrated by lovers are rare in this age already. Aside from the pollution and stress that this world brings to minimize our life span, many social factors also affect the relationship of couples nowadays which makes separation seem normal these days. Witnessing a couple who have been together for 50 long years is a momentous occasion. 50 years marks the 'Golden Anniversary' of married couples. Society should be happy whenever married couples would reach this mark and those (next anniversaries) that will follow as well.

It is a social fact that people have been known to celebrate almost anything. And one of the earliest known celebrations is the anniversary celebration. Anniversary celebrations started when weddings started, but the practice of anniversary gift-giving came later as the rules of social etiquette changed.

If you area romantic person and love nature, it is best to celebrate anniversaries in garden parks that will last long, one that you can return every year. One good example is the Missouri Botanical Garden. This garden celebrates its 150th anniversary this year. The garden opened to the public on June 15th 1859, making it the oldest botanic garden in continuous operation in the US. It was Henry Shaw who was so blessed that he shared this garden to the public.

Henry Shaw is a native of Sheffield in the UK. He visited St. Louis in 1819 and established a business selling hardware and cutlery on the Mississippi River. Thanks to the great westward expansion his business boomed and Shaw retired a wealthy man before he was 40. He spent his retirement touring the world and was especially taken with the great gardens of Europe. Inspired, he set about creating a gift for the city of St. Louis 'for all time for public good': the Missouri Botanical Garden.

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