Fun fact: here’s a spring beauty mining bee that gathers the pink pollen. A similar flower, Carolina spring beauty, grows within 30 miles of Lake Superior, but the Minnesota Department of ...

One of the most exciting parts of flower gardening is watching what emerges from the soil in the spring. It's like opening Christmas presents when each perennial peaks its head up from the winter nap.

Minnesota’s wild blueberries are ripe for the picking. Here’s where to find them. In the North Woods, people give up the location of their favorite patches as willingly as hot fishing spots.

Mankato, MN (56001) Today. Partly cloudy. Windy. Low 52F. WNW winds at 20 to 30 mph ... For trees, elms and maples are flowering right now and, as for spring wildflowers, ...