This is a a sculpture by North Carolina artist Patrick Dougherty made of 6000 pounds of spring prunings at the University of Minnesota's Landscape Arboretum in Chaska, MN. We took the kids out here for a family outing on Labor Day. The Arboretum is pretty pricey at $9 per grown up (free for kids 15 years and younger) but we spent 3 hours there and only saw a fraction of the gardens. There are incredible walkways and a massive hedge maze for adults and a smaller one for kids. There is also a "elvin" woodland playground for children and a three-mile hike/walk through all manner of trees and shrubs and prairieland. Fancy formal gardens including Japanese styles with waterfalls and rock outcroppings and English herb gardens enclosed with hedges like in the Secret Garden. So so beautiful. If the mosquitoes hadn't been so thick and our kids didn't need to go home for naps we could have happily stayed the rest of the day.