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: February 2 - February 8

Common Name: Dahurian Birch
Scientific Name: Betula dahurica

Native to northeast Asia, including parts of Russia, Japan, the Korean peninsula and China, the Dahurian birch can be found growing in mixed or coniferous forests in its native range. Growing to heights of only 40 to 50 feet at maturity, this tree is known for its round-spreading crown and and showy, exfoliating or peeling bark. Hardy from zones 4 to 7 and tolerant of moist soils, this smaller tree can be planted in groups to create greater ornamental interest in the landscape, but is also suited well to be planted as an individual specimen.

Found in our Birch Collection along Three-Mile Drive and Walk, this tree is a real standout specimen during the winter months. To learn more about the Dahurian Birch, make sure to check out the Arboretum's bi-monthly magazine where Brandon M. Miller, Ph. D (Assistant Professor, Department of Horticultural Science & Curator of Plant Collections) expands on the value that this unique and rarely used tree adds to the landscape.

Garden Highlights

Featured: February 2 - February 8

Orchid

Kentucky Coffee Tree

Balsam Fir

Yellow-twig Dogwood

Orchid

Yellow Birch

Ohio Buckeye

Sawara False Cypress

Orchid

White Oak

Japanese Red Pine

Dwarf Norway Spruce

Atlantic White Cedar

Paper Birch

Crabapple

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).

Garden Highlights

Featured: February 2 - February 8

Orchid

Kentucky Coffee Tree

Balsam Fir

Yellow-twig Dogwood

Orchid

Yellow Birch

Ohio Buckeye

Sawara False Cypress

Orchid

White Oak

Japanese Red Pine

Dwarf Norway Spruce

Atlantic White Cedar

Paper Birch

Crabapple

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