Lyndale Park Gardens
Another place we visited during the Minneapolis Fling was the Lyndale Park Gardens. This is a Minneapolis public park with multiple gardens that collectively include quite a few diversions for people who love plants.
There are mixed borders full of bulbs, annuals, and perennials.
There’s a trial garden for new plant varieties, a joint project of the University of Minnesota and the Minneapolis Parks.
Color themed borders in yellow.
Not to mention blue.
More Lilies, with a stimulating mix of perennials.
The first of the gardens at Lyndale Park, I believe was a rose garden. It was started in the early 1900s to demonstrate that roses could be grown even in Minnesota.
Apparently they can be.
We enjoyed peeking into this hut of woven stems.
There are also a couple of fountains, also going back to around 1900.
Cute turtles.
More to come on the Minneapolis Fling.
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Darn! I have been to MN twice or thrice and never bothered to check out this park. Thank you for putting this up here in your blog. Seems like a beautiful park.
Hmm…never thought that MN is too cold to grow rose. My roses survive here in 1-2 feet of snow, and thus thought roses can grow everywhere.
Well, some roses are much hardier than others. Perhaps at the time this garden was made, garden roses were much more tender.
I like the colorful gardens. That giant bee skep is cool. I wonder how long it will last up there in the colder weathers.
It that what it’s called – a skep? I never heard of that before.
Nice gardens. I could use a crew of those guys in the blue shirts around here.
Ditto.
So much to admire! The rose, the hut, the fountain with spouting turtles. Very nice on a bleak November Tuesday one week after the election.
Yes, isn’t it?
Do you have any idea where the hut’s woven stems came from or what the inspiration was for the hut? It’s definitely different. It’s a beautiful garden. I followed the 2016 Garden Fling in a few other blogs so I look forward to seeing other gardens that I *think* you probably photographed.
You think correctly, though the photographs were taken mostly by Judy. Interesting questions about the hut, but I have no idea.
I quite enjoyed the beds that showcased a variety of plants in a particular colour grouping – you don’t often see that in public gardens.
It’s an old idea but not one you see in practice much nowadays.
That blue border is lovely. I’m very taken with the woven hut!!!xxx
It’s nice, isn’t it?
Those turtles took me by surprise! And are those Aliums in the first photo? Loveliness throughout your post. 🙂
I think they are chives, which I guess is a kind of Allium, I guess.
That looks like a great place to wander in. I love the turtle fountain and the woven hut.
Definitely a garden worth visiting.
Like others here, I’m charmed by the turtle fountain 🙂
Turtles are cute, they just are.
Always fun to get all the different perspectives after a Fling…next best thing to being there.
It’s certainly part of the fun.
The gardens look wonderful, everything looks so green and lush. Does Minneapolis have a harsh winter? (I’m thinking it does)…I guess many plants don’t mind winter if they have plenty of water/rain during the year.
Yes, Minneapolis has a very harsh winter. Here in Chicago we are USDA zone 5, on the border of 6. In Minneapolis they are in zone 4, not far from zone 3. Normally they have a fair amount of rain but there have been a lot of dry years recently.
What beautiful gardens! I like that woven stick hut, too.
It’s different in a good way.