Summer Blossom 2019

Take a virtual tour of the winning gardens. Thank you for making Brooklyn Park beautiful!

Water streaming down rocks behind a garden

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. -William Blake

About Summer Blossom

The Summer Blossom Awards Program highlights attractive gardens and landscaping in Brooklyn Park. Started in 1999, this competitive program annually recognizes and rewards residents and businesses that strive to improve the City’s landscape.

A garden in front of City Hall
A garden in front of City Hall

About Brooklyn Park

With a population of more than 80,000 people, Brooklyn Park is the sixth-largest city in Minnesota and the fourth largest in the metropolitan area. We are a community that believes our residents are our strongest asset and the key to making Brooklyn Park thrive and prosper.


Choosing the winners

Each year the city reviews the gardens and selects the winners in four categories: single family (in one of four districts), town homeneighborhood, and commercial. Anyone can nominate you including neighbors, contractors, and, of course, you!

🌼🌷 Summer Blossom 2019 winners 🌷🌼

Grand prize winners receive:

  • a $250 gift card
  • an engraved garden paver stone
  • formal recognition by the Brooklyn Park City Council

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And now, without further ado, here are your 2019 Summer Blossom winning gardens!


Carmen and her husband in their garden

Single Family Gardens

A pink flower in full bloom

Grand Prize District 3

Carmen Teisanu

1709 89th Avenue N

A statue of a child with wings


Carmen and her husband in their garden

Single Family Gardens

A garden gnome next to a pond

First Place District 1

Myrna Dahl

6657 Hillsboro Avenue N

A pink and white flower


Myrna in her garden with her dog

Single Family Gardens

A garden gnome with a welcome sign

First Place District 2

Michael and Kathy Goetz

8431 Queen Avenue N

A bee visiting a pink flower


Single Family Gardens

A yellow and purple flower

First Place District 4

Stanley Walton

9702 Linden Avenue N

A cluster of red, pink, and yellow flowers


Jorge posing in his garden

Town Home Gardens

An insect on a bright pink flower

Grand Town Home

Jorge Adamson

Strawberry Commons

7236 72nd Lane and 7190 72nd Lane (Imelda Eicher)

Imelda posing with her dog


Jorge posing in his garden

Neighborhood Gardens

A butterfly visiting a flower

Grand Neighborhood

Pat and Tony Bianco

3711 Ladyslipper Lane N

The winning neighborhood garden


Pat and Tony in their garden
The Realife team posing with their garden

Commercial Gardens

Two white flowers with purple insides

Grand Commercial

Realife Cooperative Gardeners

3100 95th Avenue N

The grand commercial garden along a curb


The Realife team posing with their garden
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