Garden Highlights

Don't miss our Garden Highlights, updated weekly on Thursday, featuring plants for their outstanding ornamental characteristics. Discover everything from flowers to fruit, buds, bark and more. You can search for specific plants using the Plant Finder

Visitors can also call the Bloom Line at 612-625-9791 for an audio listing of what is currently in bloom each week.

Featured: March 13 - March 19

Common Name: Snowdrop
Scientific Name: Galanthus nivalis

With spring right around the corner, the first snowdrops have emerged from their winter slumber in the Hosta Glade! While just a few clusters have popped up, many more are to follow. Snowdrops typically begin to bloom in March and are often the first to flower in the landscape. Their early blooms help provide a food source for insects emerging from winter’s slumber. This genus of plants contains about 20 different species and are known for their white, pendulous flowers. Native to a large swath of Europe, snowdrops, Galanthus nivalis, have readily naturalized in the United States.

A popular plant among collectors, the snowdrop has been bred and selected, with over 1,000+ cultivars in circulation. Minute differences in green markings on the inner petals can help differentiate between species and cultivars. Some snowdrop enthusiasts get so excited about these tiny green markings, that they have earned themselves the nickname of Galanthophile. This galanthomania has even led to the selling of a single snowdrop bulb for over $2,400 in 2015. ‘Flore Pleno’, one of the more popular and affordable cultivars, can be found in our Woodland Azalea Garden in the coming weeks.

Garden Highlights

Featured: March 13 - March 19

Azalea

Sawara False Cypress

Orchid

Spotted Beebalm

Tatarian Dogwood

Japanese White Pine

Nannyberry Viburnum

Hyacinth Lilac

Eastern Redbud

The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum serves as a research center and extension of the University of Minnesota's College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS).

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