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 2 - May 8

Common Name: Marsh Marigold
Scientific Name: Caltha palustris

As its common name implies, marsh marigold (Caltha palustris) thrives in wet, boggy soil near water. Sometimes called cowslip, these yellow flowers belong to the buttercup family, and look more like large buttercups with a bright yellow cup-like bloom than true marigolds which are in a different plant family. This perennial plant is native to Minnesota and blooms in full sun to part shade in April and May.

Marsh marigold is typically found in rain gardens, pond edges and bogs, as well as in ditches. As an early bloomer, this plant is an eyecatcher due to the flowers providing the first pops of colors in both cultivated gardens and natural areas. It can grow 1-2 feet tall and has green, glossy, kidney-shaped leaves.

Take a walk along the Bog Boardwalk to see a large, showy display of marsh marigolds or stop by the Grace B. Dayton Wildflower Garden to see a smaller selection in a different habitat!

Garden Highlights

Featured: May 2 - May 8

Tulip

Hyacinth Lilac

Siberian Bugloss

Shadblow Serviceberry

White Bleeding Heart

Hybrid Magnolia

Shantung Maple

Dwarf Pear

Dwarf Norway Spruce

Virginia Bluebells

Blue Phlox

Armenian Grape Hyacinth

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 2 - May 8

Tulip

Hyacinth Lilac

Siberian Bugloss

Shadblow Serviceberry

White Bleeding Heart

Hybrid Magnolia

Shantung Maple

Dwarf Pear

Dwarf Norway Spruce

Virginia Bluebells

Blue Phlox

Armenian Grape Hyacinth

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