The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum’s 40,000 tulips are blooming now, and more are coming up fast!
Indeed, thanks to a nice mix of sun and rain (and mild temperatures), the beds around the Arboretum are popping with color.
This year’s tulip theme is the 50th anniversary — golden anniversary — of the Snyder Building, so visitors will find yellows and golds all around the historic original visitors center.
In the main Annual Garden, where 20,000 of the 40,000 tulips are planted, visitors will find a mix of red, magenta, pink and yellow accents. More tulips are planted near the Oswald Visitor Center, the Gatehouse and the entrance on Highway 5.
Visitors will find traditional flower forms, but also lily forms (with pointed petals, below), double or peony forms, fringed (with feathery petal tips), parrot (heavily fringed and scalloped), single-flower Darwin hybrids and more. Throughout the grounds, more than 135 varieties of tulips are present.
To follow the blooms’ progress, check out the Arboretum’s Facebook, Instagram and TikTok feeds.
Get tickets to the Arboretum grounds online and check out the ticket links below for the Arboretum Plant Sale and May Markets!
Shop the Arboretum Plant Sale
What: The Arboretum Plant Sale, including plants grown by staff, moved to the Friday/Saturday before Mother’s Day, and organizers have just added more (free) tickets due to a larger plant supply this year. Arboretum experts and Master Gardeners will be on-site to offer plant care advice, and North Star Donuts will sell apple cider mini donuts and hot and cold beverages. Ticket holders will enter at the Farm at the Arb and will need a separate ticket to enter the grounds.
When: May 10-11
Tickets can be purchased on the event page.
May Markets are here!
What: Soak up spring at the beautiful Minnesota Landscape Arboretum while shopping from 60 local artists and artisans every weekend in May except Mother’s Day. Enjoy live music as you check out your favorite makers from past years and discover new ones.
When: May 4-5, May 18-19, May 25-26.
Tickets can be purchased on the event page.
Editor’s note: Sarah Jackson is a former journalist, editor and garden writer who found her calling as the public relations/media specialist at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska.
Jackson’s column on the happenings at the Arboretum will appear periodically on the Eden Prairie Local News website. Contact her at arbpr@umn.edu.
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