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.

Use the Garden Highlights layer on our digital map to find these plants at the Arboretum. You can also 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: May 9 - May 15

Common Name: Crabapple
Scientific Name: Malus

Everywhere you go — in the Arboretum and throughout the Twin Cities — crabapple trees are making themselves known with abundances of white and pink blooms. The Arboretum’s Crabapple Collection —accessible from Three-Mile Drive and Three-Mile Walk — is particularly awe-inspiring this time of year, with close to 400 individual plants and over 100 cultivars displaying a variety of blooms.

While we enjoy crabapple trees’ beautiful spring blooms and — to a lesser extent — the crabapples themselves, which ripen in the fall, crabapple trees provide a windfall for wildlife. They offer both shelter and a food source throughout the year, from the blooms that support pollinators in the spring to the fruit that offers sustenance to birds and small animals in the fall and winter.

Learn more about crabapples and discover our horticulturalists’ favorite crabapple cultivars for home and landscape use. To search for specific cultivars and view the locations of crabapples throughout the Arboretum use our Plant Finder!

Garden Highlights

Featured: May 9 - May 15

Tulip

Hyacinth Lilac

Eastern Redbud

Rhododendron

Ostrich Fern

Pearlbush

Persian Lily

Trumpet Gentian

Large-flowered Trillium

Daphne

Standard Dwarf Bearded Iris

Lungwort

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: May 9 - May 15

Tulip

Hyacinth Lilac

Eastern Redbud

Rhododendron

Ostrich Fern

Pearlbush

Persian Lily

Trumpet Gentian

Large-flowered Trillium

Daphne

Standard Dwarf Bearded Iris

Lungwort

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