Minnesota State Horticultural Society

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MSHS Front Door Decorating Contest

Even the best gardeners love fresh flowers from FTD!

MSHS Presents Lynn Steiner: Prairie-Style Gardens Presentation & Book Signing
Thursday, December 2, 2010 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Refreshments will be served.
Lynn's new book Prairie-Style Gardens shows you how to use prairie plants in a wide variety of situations, from including a few prairie plants in an existing landscape to creating a full-fledged habitat garden. Join us for a presentation based on Prairie-Style Gardens, with a book signing to follow.Learn More

$5 Off Gifts

$5 Off Gift Memberships and Subscriptions

Give your gift of membership online just deduct $5 from the original price in the payment area ($55 or $29) mail your payment, or call us at 651-643-3601 / 800-676-6747.

Gardening Gals Get-Together

Girls night out with wine and cheese sampling

Take a break from the hectic hustle and bustle of the holidays, grab a couple friends, and enjoy a relaxed, fun night out with the gals! MSHS Gardening Gals' Get-Together includes:

Classes, including: Creating Easy Herbal Dishes for Entertaining at 6 p.m. & Decorating a Wreath to Take Home at 7 p.m.
Demos: holiday flower arranging & plants for holiday color

Help MSHS Meet Our Goal

Support the Minnesota State Horticultural Society

Membership and subscription dues account for about 50% of our yearly budget, so individual donations provide vital support for MSHS to serve our gardening community. Our contribution goal for the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2011 is $150,000. If youve already given this fiscal year, thank you! If not, make a gift today, in any amount, to help MSHS reach our goal.

Prairie-Style Gardens 01 Presentation & Book Signing
$5 Off Gifts 02 $5 Off Gift Memberships and Subscriptions
Gardening Gals Get-Together 03 Girls night out with wine and cheese sampling
Help MSHS Meet Our Goal 04 Support the Minnesota State Horticultural Society

Welcome to the Minnesota State Horticultural Society

The MSHS is a not-for-profit membership organization, and is one of the largest horticultural societies in the United States. Since 1866, we have served the gardening community through programs for individuals of all ages:

Northern Gardener, the only magazine edited exclusively for cold climate gardening

Member discounts at over 150 garden centers, nurseries & landscaping services

Volunteer opportunities to meet other gardening enthusiasts at MSHS events.

A network of affiliated garden clubs

An extensive lending library of horticultural and gardening books

A retail bookstore and gardening gift shop

MN Green: a program that supplies donated plant material to community gardens

Garden in a Box: a low-cost raised bed enclosure that can be used almost anywhere

At the MSHS, we connect plants and people. Join today and discover the best gardening tool you will ever use.

We have extended the dates for submitting photos and voting.
The deadline for submitting your photos is December 15th.
Vote by December 31st.
Join creative MSHS members across the state in a front door decorating contest. Its a statewide competition to get in the Christmas spirit. Participants are encouraged to use botanical product like greens, berries, dried grasses, etc. Decorate your whole front entrance and inspire your neighbors to do the same.
The front door displays that have the most votes will receive prizes from MSHS. We will display the photos of the winning doors and homeowners on our website and on our Facebook page.

Have Gardening Questions?
Want to talk to a master gardener, or just browse resources?

Escape the cold and snow this winter and rejuvenate your senses by joining C. Colston Burrell and Robin Fox on a trip to Costa Rica.
January 10th-24th, 2011
This loaded, all-inclusive tour combines gardens, birding and soft adventure into a memorable travel journey. Costa Rica is a botanically-rich environment with more than twenty-five percent of its land protected as national parks and preserves. In the gardens and forests of this eco-paradise are an unbelievable array of orchids, flowers, animals and birds.

MSHS Seeks High Resolution Pictures

2011 Minnesota Gardening Calendar

Published by the University of Minnesota Extension
Featuring beautiful full-color photos, timely gardening tips, frost free & hardiness zone maps, and an edible landscape feature.

Holiday merchandise is here: Ornaments, candles, statuettes, holiday home accents, and more! Don't forget to print the coupon from the November Enewsletter before stopping in.

Saturday, Dec 4, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
MSHS, 2705 Lincoln Drive, Roseville
Celebrate the holidays with MSHS at our holiday open house. We will have holiday decorating demos, vendors with holiday merchandise for sale, in-store specials, and a used garden book sale. Plus, enjoy complimentary coffee, cookies and hot apple cider while you shop and enjoy the holiday fun.

Our new Garden-in-a-Box will be available for purchase at the St. Paul Home and Patio Show February 17 to 20, 2011 and the Minneapols Home and Garden Show March 2 to 6, 2011. Please visit our booth there for more information.