Catch beautiful spring flowers in the arboretum while the last time

Something particularly glorious at the Arboretum landscape of the University of Minnesota in Chaska is currently happening.

Tulp time is always nice. It is a joyful announcement that spring has come.

But thanks to the early rain and the fast explosion of this week, tulips are not the only spring beauty that pops. It seems like everything is blooming at once! This includes daffodils, tulips, apple and pear trees, crabs and even purple!

Daffodils are typically faded when the lilac blooms, and when you see this confluence of flowers, the heads turn. Employees who have been working here for decades keep in their mark to take photos of all flowers. There is beauty on every corner and curve.

Arboretum Horticulturist Duane Otto and Senior Gardener Aimee Thuen say that a number of things come together to bloom tulips. You need numerous weeks cold – something that is usually not a problem in our winter climate in Minnesota. Then tulips are waiting for the right combination of warmth, sun and rain to pop.

This year the Arboretum planted more than 100 varieties of over 7,000 square foot, and what they see could surprise them. Tulips are now available in numerous forms, including lily shapes with pointed petals, double or peony shapes that you can cause to think that you see a peony in an unlikely bright color tones, fringed shapes with spring -on -wearing flower leaf tips, strongly rounded and overridden parrots and of course the classic traditional tulip.

Each variety has a sign that identifies it and makes it easy to get inspiration and information for your own garden.

A short tip for gardeners: In the event that you wonder why your tulips don't come back year after year, most tulips are not perennials. They were bred to prefer shape, shape and color in more and more creative combinations. Thuen recommends looking for Darwin -Hybriden to find tulips that reliably return. (And as always they guard against rabbits.)

In the Arboretum it takes a whole year that the Tulip display is brought to life. In July, Otto begins to design the gardens for the following spring. He orders the light bulbs of wholesale dealers who get their light bulbs from the Netherlands. Every autumn, employees and volunteers prepare the gardens for plants and then spend more than 500 hours of planting the light bulbs. They mulch the light bulbs with straw and bring up deer fences and bring out an organic spray repellent to keep the animals away from the delicate light bulbs and new flowers.

And then they hope for the best everywhere like gardeners. Nature is inevitably responsible for what happens next.

And like in every garden, the arboretum has its season and its rhythms. As soon as the tulips are finished, employees and volunteers change the ground and immediately start planting summer flowers.

Another must at the moment are the crabs that drive over the hills in front of three miles. The Arboretum collection contains almost 400 trees and more than 100 varieties. It is fun to see how painters put their season here, and the people who are dressed in their best for photos.

The purple collection is in full bloom and this fragrant fragrance blows over the arboretum.

Around 100,000 people come to the Arboretum at this time of year. Many come to Mark Mother's Day and bring generations of their families together to see the flowers, to drive the tram and a picnic.

It is the perfect moment to make memories and create perfect pictures. These moments of spring are so fleeting. Make sure you now capture you when so many plants bloom.

It is recommended to receive tickets in advance.

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Note from the publisher: Lynette Kalsnes is the Public Relations Strategist at the Arboretum landscape of the University of Minnesota. She has exactly in mind when the 40,000 tulips in the Arboretum bloom and plans to spend her weekend what she can do to prepare her gardens without disturbing pollinators.

The column of Kalsnes on events in the Arboretum will regularly appear on the Eden Prairie Local News website. Contact them at Arbpr@umn.edu.