After Hours with the Flowers

Make a night of it with your special someone or best friends and enjoy the Spring Flower Show after hours during this fun experience with live music, games, lectures and entertainment.

Rockabilly and Water

Mill City Trio

The trio of Dick Danaher (accordion, sax, clarinet), Will Danaher (trombone) and Nick Jordan (guitar, foot percussion) play and sing swing, zydeco, old-time country, rockabilly and jug-band music, plus the odd tango, polka, cumbia and gaucho. Dick and Will are father and son, and they intertwine musically in a most beguiling fashion.

10 Things You Didn’t Know about Plants and Water

Plants need water just like us—and they have extraordinary ways of collecting, storing and moving it to thrive across the world. Enjoy a fun, fast-paced hour as Laura Vogel unleashes her unbridled enthusiasm for plants.

Laura is the Adult Education Manager at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. She has a bachelor’s and master’s in horticulture, and has worked in the field over 20 years across seven states. Her favorite plants to grow are natives, edibles and of course aquatic!