The Annual Friends of the Wildflower Garden Guest Lecture will be Wednesday, October 14, 2025 at 7PM in the Fireside Room, Eddie Manderville Chalet, Theodore Wirth Regional Park (parking at the Golf Course lot).

Phyllis Root will speak on Chasing Wildflowers.

Presenting her adventures of chasing wildflowers throughout their unique Minnesota habitats. Venturing farther afield than their first book Searching for Native Wildflowers, Phyllis Root and Kelly Povo set out to explore smaller, less-traveled habitats throughout the state and find these hidden gems of nature. Chasing Wildflowers brings us along on their pursuit of Minnesota’s native wildflowers.

Phyllis is author of 50 children’s books including the Big Belching Bog, Plant a Pocket of Prairie, and The Lost Forest. She has won awards for her books such as Big Momma Makes the World, which won a Boston Globe Horn Book Award, Aunt Nancy and Old Man Trouble which won a Minnesota Book Award, Plant a Pocket of Prairie which won a John Burroughs Riverby Award, as did One North Star two years later, along with a Northeast Minnesota Book Award. 

Big Hill Books in Bryn Mawr will be selling Root's books at the event.

Can't make it to the meeting in person?

The meeting will be available
via Zoom at this link.

Meeting ID: 811 8416 6046
Passcode: 431086