Garden Highlights

Don't miss our Garden Highlights, updated weekly on Tuesday, featuring plants for their outstanding ornamental characteristics. Discover everything from flowers to fruit, buds, bark and more. Call our Bloom Line at 612.625.9791 for information or use the Garden Highlights layer on our digital map to find these plants at the Arboretum.

Featured Plant: May 10 - May 16

Common Name: Tulip
Scientific Name: Tulipa

When Landscape Gardener Duane Otto was dreaming up this year's tulip display, the color yellow was top of mind. Hope and optimism is in bloom at the Arboretum. "Yellow is so powerful," Otto says, nothing that is was chosen as this year's theme to represent hope and optimism.

Last fall, Arboretum Landscape Gardener Duane Otto worked with Arboretum staff and volunteers to plant more than 40,000 tulip bulbs in color combinations highlighting the color yellow to represent hope and optimism. This spring the tulips are blooming in gardens throughout the Arboretum. The largest display in the Annual Garden features red, orange and yellow.

You can also spot beds of yellow and violet tulips around the gatehouse and in front of the Oswald Visitor Center, and yellow with green and orange in the beds near Highway 5 and the Snyder Terrace. Pastel yellow with pastel pink and blue blooms will adorn the MacMillan Terrace Garden and the pots in back of the Snyder Building.

Location: Annual Garden

Eastern Redbud

Summer Snowflake

Crabapple

Prairie Trillium

Hyacinth Lilac