Gardens & Bird Sanctuaries

Community Gardens

Neighborhood parks citywide offer more than 200 plots for Minneapolis residents to grow food or flowers

Loring Park Garden of the Seasons

Tapestry of Green and Wheel of Color beds surround a Woodlands Circle of plants native to Minnesota

Annual-Perennial Garden

Butterfly and Hummingbird & Perennial and Border Gardens

Peace Garden

Roberts Bird Sanctuary

Thirty-one acres of wetlands and woodlands north of Lake Harriet, established in 1936

Rose Garden

Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

Low-walled “rooms,” a meadow landscape and other spaces feature dozens of works from the Walker Art Center collection

Longfellow Gardens

Formal garden on 13 acres, designed around a central arbor and downtown skyline view

Minnehaha Falls Pergola Garden

Native wildflowers, grasses and their cultivars, south of Minnehaha Falls

Song of Hiawatha Garden

Stone seat wall encircling the garden features excerpts from the namesake Longfellow poem

Nokomis Naturescape Garden

Four-acre native-plant garden near Lake Nokomis, cared for by volunteers since 1998

Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary

(April – October)

Stellar native Minnesota plant collections at the oldest public wildflower garden in the U.S.

JD Rivers’ Children’s Garden

(April – October)

One-acre produce garden with youth staff, a seasonal market, day camps and programs for all ages