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: April 18 - April 24

Common Name: Daffodil
Scientific Name: Narcissus

In Greek mythology, Narcissus was a man so beautiful that he fell in love with his own reflection and stared at it until he died. Then a flower bearing his name sprouted in his place. In reality Narcissus — or daffodils, as we commonly call them — aren’t quite as high maintenance as their namesake. Daffodils typically bloom year after year without asking too much of a gardener. They aren’t typically attractive to deer and other Minnesota wildlife, and they have few problems with insects and disease.

Daffodil colors can range from various shades of white, yellow, orange, pink and even bicolors! The flowers often feature a trumpet or cup, called the corona, surrounded by six petals.

At the Arboretum, we’ve planted more than 150 cultivars of daffodils, such as ‘Binkie’, ‘Cheddar’ and ‘Jetfire’. You’ll find daffodils planted throughout the gardens near the Oswald Visitor Center and Snyder Building, surrounding the Palma J. Wilson Rose Garden and in the Rock Garden.

Garden Highlights

Featured: April 18 - April 24

Loebner Magnolia

Common Hyacinth

Dutchman's Breeches

Chinese Twinleaf

Myrtle Spurge

Marsh Marigold

Korean Rhododendron

Japanese Spirea

Hellebore

Allegheny Spurge

Wall Rockcress

Blue Beech

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: April 18 - April 24

Loebner Magnolia

Common Hyacinth

Dutchman's Breeches

Chinese Twinleaf

Myrtle Spurge

Marsh Marigold

Korean Rhododendron

Japanese Spirea

Hellebore

Allegheny Spurge

Wall Rockcress

Blue Beech

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