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This is our favorite time of year ... a time to slow down and reflect, shuffle through the golden leaves, savor the squawks of migrating fowl and feast our eyes on the fleeting, robust beauty of our gardens.
Fall Color Alerts
As summer gives way to autumn, the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Bloom Line now includes the Fall Color Alert, your source for the latest information about blooms and autumn color. Click Here for the Fall Color Alert as of Friday, October 17.
Fall Color Alerts Line - 952-443-1400 Ext. 5010
Here are the Top Reasons to ‘Fall' for the Arboretum!
1. Savoring the symphony of fall color that greets you as you turn right onto Three-Mile Drive and approach the maple woods and the Berens cabin. Continue on for more awesome vistas!
2. Taste-testing U of M apples every Saturday and Sunday in October from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Oswald Visitor Center. Free with Arboretum admission.
3. Enjoying Treeology in its seasonal splendor! From the 1.5 mile Art ‘n' Trees Trail (with 18 art installations) to the Grown Home retreat filled with living willow furnishings - there's something for everyone in this year's exhibition. It's a great excuse for a fall walk. Extended through late October.
4. Savoring the spectacular perennials in the season's grand finale. Check out the shrub roses, hybrid roses and our gorgeous dahlias.
5. Free Family Drop-in Weekend Fun at the Andrus Learning Center every Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. In October, the theme is "The Colors of Fall" (complete with pumpkin drop!).
6. Exploring favorite our gardens and collections on a free "highlights of the Arboretum" walk led by trained Arboretum guides (1 p.m. Saturday & Sunday, through Oct. 19). Meet in Ordway Visitor Center.
7. Boarding the open-air motorized Trumpet Creeper Tram for an extensive tour of the Arboretum grounds - including prairie, woodlands, wetlands and more - along Three-Mile Drive. Daily at 11 a.m., 12:30, 2 and 3:30 p.m. through Oct. 22.
8. "Pumpkin Palooza," our eye-popping display of pumpkins and squash in the Great Hall of the Oswald Visitor Center. Opening Oct. 4 and continuing through Nov. 2. Check out "Pumpkin Palooza Weekend" (Oct. 25-26) with pumpkin-carvers, "Bill's Big Pumpkins" documentary and mini-pumpkin heads!
9. Viewing "The Painted Barn" exhibit in the Reedy Gallery. Michele Pope Melina spent a year capturing the beauty and dignity of this vanishing American icon. Many of the barns are located in the greater Twin Cities area. Continues through Oct. 26.
10. Shopping for apples and U of M food products at the Arboretum AppleHouse market , located one mile west of the Arb at the Intersection of Hwy. 5 & Rolling Acres Road. Open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.
11. Fun adult classes! Cooking, photography, gardening and crafts - we have it all! Call 952-443-1422 or email ArbEdu@umn.edu to register.
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