The Sunken Garden offers beautiful floral shows, updated seasonally. This ever-changing display is as artful as it is fragrant. Perfect for a romantic walk or a curious exploration.
Enjoy amazing azaleas and festive poinsettias in winter, multicolored tulips in spring, prized roses and geraniums in summer and cheery chrysanthemums in autumn.
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Flower Shows
Winter Flower Show
January 15 through March 20, 2022
The 2022 Winter Flower Show will feature a stunning display of flowering trees and shrubs. Highlights will include purple azaleas, pink lilies, and camellias. Cyclamen, cineraria, veltheimia, and amaryllis will add beautiful pink and red accents throughout the show.
Spring Flower Show
March 26 through May 1, 2022
The 2022 Spring Flower Show will feature a primary color scheme of red, blue and yellow with white/silver accents. Red and yellow bulbs will dominate the show with blue hydrangeas adding contrast.
Summer Flower Show
May 7 through October 2, 2022
The Summer Flower Show is the longest of the five flower shows. Summer sunsets inspire this year’s summer flower show. Tropical annuals and a glowing color palette of warm season annuals will fill the Sunken Garden. Hibiscus ‘Imperial Dragon’, dark red verbena, orange begonias, red salvia, tangerine impatiens, striped tiki torch petunias, and canna are among the many flowers featured in the longest running flower show of the year.
Fall Flower Show
October 8, 2022 through November 27, 2022
Sunken Garden will be closed for mid-show change October 31 – November 4
While many Minnesota gardens are winding down for the winter season, the Sunken Garden at the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory will be in full bloom! White, pink, lime green and purple chrysanthemums will be on display for the first half of the fall flower show. The second half of the fall flower show will feature white, yellow, lime green, bronze, red and orange colored chrysanthemum blooms. Ornamental grasses and pepper plants will accent the fall flower show displays.
Holiday Flower Show
December 3, 2022 through January 8, 2023
The Holiday Flower Show tradition began in 1925 and continues to be the most anticipated and visited flower attraction at the Conservatory today. This year’s poinsettia display will sparkle with warmth and light. The flower show will feature an elegant white poinsettia accented with plants selected for fragrance and texture.
Winter Flower Show
January 14 through March 19, 2023
Spring Flower Show
March 25 through April 30, 2023
Summer Flower Show
May 6 through October 1, 2023
