While there are any number of greenhouses and garden centers in the Twin Cities, Bachman’s Garden Center is the hometown favorite. Whatever your family’s gardening interest, Bachman’s will have it in their catalog and offer advice for growing it — Fairy Gardens, Bonsai, flowers, vegetables. you can find it in their catalog. There are seven garden centers in the Twin Cities plus a downtown location and several Lunds & Byerly’s locations. Bachman’s gardeners work through the nights to install displays in the week leading up to the annual Floral Experience, which fills the common areas, windows and in-store displays of the Galleria Shopping Center. Landscape architect Bryan Kramer dreamed up the vision and design for the 20-plus unique Floral Experience gardens, featuring more than 100 species of trees, shrubs, plants, flowers and bulbs. Perfect for families, visitors can discover floral magic after a long winter as they meander through the mall. The event is free and open to the public for self-guided tours any time the shopping center is open. “Once people visit, they’ll want to return again with family members or friends to show them the secret surprises they’ve discovered.” — Wendy Eisenberg, General Manager, Galleria Edina Bachman’s offers gardening events and activities year round. Events geared toward kids have been so popular that we rarely list them on our calendar. If gardening with kids is your thing, we recommend checking early and often for kids programming or joining their purple rewards club so you’ll get heads up emails. Get More Ideas with our Family Fun Idea: Gardening with Kids. The Lyndale location traditionally develops an original Christmas play each season, with showtimes during their annual Christmas open house. Other highlights of the open house include: “Established in 1885, Bachman’s is a Minneapolis-based plant, flower, and landscaping company led by the fifth generation of its founding family. Bachman’s operates retail locations in the Twin Cities, including six full-service Floral, Gift, and Garden Centers, and floral departments within metro-area Lunds & Byerlys grocery stores. The company also operates indoor and outdoor landscaping divisions, a wedding/special events department, a nursery wholesale division, seven acres of greenhouses, a hardscapes center, and a 670-acre growing range near Lakeville, Minn., which produces many of the plants, flowers, and landscaping products sold by Bachman’s today. For more information visit Bachmans.com.” 
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