Meet the Arb Glass Pumpkin Patch Artists
Learn more about the 10 talented artists who have hand blown more than 2,000 glass pumpkins for sale and display this weekend at the Arboretum.
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Fleeting Blooms, Water Bugs, and Turtleheads
Several non-native plants are thriving along the trail, including velvet leaf, sowthistle, and flower-of-an-hour (so named because each flower blooms for only a few hours on a single sunny day).
Summer Color
Goldenrods are abuzz with bees, flies and wasps. They pay no attention to me as they travel from floret to floret to store the sweet nectar.
Meet the Arb Glass Pumpkin Patch Artists
Learn more about the 10 talented artists who have hand blown more than 2,000 glass pumpkins for sale and display this weekend at the Arboretum.
Ferns, Fruit and Fog
Artist and Minnesota Master Naturalist Greg Lecker shares the inspiration he found during a recent trip to the Arboretum.
Arb Links, vol. 51
Catch up on Arboretum news.
Growing with John Mazzarella
Meet the gardener who keeps the Arboretum AppleHouse stocked with fresh apples.
Refreshing Rains
The fern-like foliage always delights me. For most of the summer and persisting into the autumn, red berries nod above the foliage. If you find similar white berries with a small black dot, you’ve found white baneberry – also called “doll’s eye”. Neither the red nor the white berries are edible!
20 Things to do in September 2021
See the harvest moon, enjoy live music at Farm at the Arb, bite into fall flavors at the AppleHouse and more this month at the Arboretum.
Recharge Mental Energy
When our mental energy is too low, we experience ‘mental fatigue’ and that is when we need a Nature Fix.
Dry Effect
Duckweed and watermeal crowd a small pond. These are Minnesota native plants and other than blocking sunlight, do no harm to a pond. In this magnified photo the (mostly) two-leaved duckweeds are larger.
