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Apple Valley

  • Minnesota Zoo
    13000 Zoo Boulevard, Apple Valley, MN 55124
    "The Minnesota Zoo displays its collection of over 1300 orchids throughout the Tropics Building all year long." Admission.

Bloomington

  • Japanese Garden
    9700 France Avenue South, Bloomington, MN 55431
    At Normandale Community College: "Designed by Mr. Takao Watanabe, Garden Architect from Tokyo, Japan."

Brainerd

  • Northland Arboretum
    Brainerd, MN 56401
    "Over 500 acres in the heart of Brainerd/Baxter, Minnesota."

Chaska

Collegeville

  • Saint John's Arboretum
    Collegeville, MN 56321
    "Encompasses over 2500 acres settled by Benedictine monks in 1864."

Duluth

  • Glensheen -
    3300 London Road, Duluth, MN 55804
    The Historic Congdon Estate - English style house and gardens. Admission.

Edina

  • Edinborough Park
    7700 York Ave. S., Edina, MN 55435
    "With more than 6,000 plants, trees and flowers, Edinborough Park is Minnesota's most unique indoor public park."

Minneapolis

  • Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary
    Theodore Wirth Pky. and Glenwood Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55422
    "The oldest public wildflower garden in the nation." Open April l - October 15. Free admission.

  • Florence Bakken Medicinal Garden
    3537 Zenith Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55416
    "The Florence Bakken Medicinal Garden was created by integrating medicinal plants that thrive in Minnesota's robust climate with a pre-existing English landscape-style perennial garden." Admission.

  • Lakewood Cemetery
    3600 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55408
    This large urban cemetery includes greenhouse and several gardens. Free admission.

  • Loring Park Garden of the Seasons
    1382 Willow St., Minneapolis, MN 55403
    Recently constructed garden near Loring Pond. Free Admission.

  • Lyndale Park Gardens
    1500 E. Lake Harriet Parkway, Minneapolis, MN 55409
    "Lyndale Park Gardens encompasses four distinctive gardens; the Rose Garden, the Perennial Garden, Peace (Rock) Garden and the Perennial Trial Garden. Immediately adjacent to the Peace Garden is the Thomas Sadler Roberts Bird Sanctuary." Free admission.

  • Lyndale Park Rose Garden
    4125 E. Lake Harriet Parkway, Minneapolis, MN 55409
    The second oldest public rose gardens in the U.S. Northern most AARS (All America Rose Selections) test rose garden. Free admission.

  • Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
    726 Vineland Place, Minneapolis, MN 55403
    Quirky sculpture garden located across from the Walker Art Center and Guthrie Theater. Free Admission.

  • Minnehaha Falls Pergola Garden
    4801 Minnehaha Ave S., Minneapolis, MN 55417
    "Perennial garden features native wildflowers and grasses." Free admission.

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St. Paul

  • Como Park Zoo and Conservatory
    1225 Estabrook Drive , St. Paul, MN 55103

  • Gibbs Museum
    2097 West Larpenteur Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55113
    Dakotah Medicine Teaching Garden, native prairie, and pioneer garden. Admission.

St. Peter

  • Linnaeus Arboretum
    800 West College Avenue, St. Peter, MN 56082
    At Gustavus Adolphus College: "The three major natural ecosystems found in Minnesota are represented in the arboretum: the conifer forest in the north, the prairie in the south and west, and the deciduous forest in between."

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