Flowers in the arboretum

My spouse and I took our first trip to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum since The Before Times recently. The arboretum is basically an open-air horticultural research site owned by the University of Minnesota. It’s a 1,200-acre site that’s jam-packed with multiple themed gardens, arbors and model landscapes.

We did the Three-Mile Drive, a circuit that has points of interest along the way including places where cars can stop and park so people can get out and check things out. One of the stopping points is a native wildflower garden. As you may have read in previous blogs, I’m very into native plants, so my spouse and I stopped at this garden and took a nice walk around.

Pictured above is a yellow lady’s slipper (left) and a white trillium in the wildflower garden. (The other flowers in the photo with the trillium are some kind of phlox, another common wildflower.) The trillium was a real surprise because it’s very late in the year for those to be flowering, so I was delighted to see it and take a photo, even though the bloom is showing its age.

Next week, I’ll be posting a filmstrip video of the Harrison Sculpture Garden at the arboretum.