Terrace Horticultural Books

Congratulations America on this 4th of July Holiday 2024. Best wishes to all of our loyal customers. Everyone is invited to the Minnesota Antiquarian Bookfair July 12 and 13 at Hamline University. Full details are available at https://minnesotaantiquarianbookfair.wordpress.com/
Previously held at St. Thomas University and the State Fairgrounds, approximately 40 dealers from around the country gather to offer their best of Antiquarian and useful books and related material. Terrace Horticultural Books will have lots of new to the market rare material on display including many manuscripts, and our great stock of gardening, botany and natural history. Added this year will be interesting new acquisitions in physics, medicine, sciences and mathematics. Sometimes great and interesting material comes to us, such as this print we are bringing In honor of this July 4th. We will have available a framed 1941 color print of the classic Freedom Flag. Please be in touch at [email protected] and 612-963-1666 with any questions. Happy to bring requested items from stock at 503 St. Clair in St. Paul where we continue to upgrade our stock including our rare book room.

Dear Friends of Terrace Horticultural Books
I have pasted in the home page text announcement from our website outlining our new sale at terracehorticulturalbooks.com
Please check out the possibilities offered for your winter reading and information search. We have nearly 30,000 items to choose from of which 88% of items are priced below $25.00 and are discounted with this significant new sale. Glad to help with questions [email protected]

First Ever Shelf Clearance Sale
35% Discount with Minimum order of $25.00

Now through Feb. 4th All Stock! All Topics! All Prices!

Plus Shipping with Maximum Discount of $200.00. If you don't reach

the minimum order of $25.00 for the discount we will contact you to verify.

Please Note

1) Non-Domestic Orders will be payment processed at PayPal with quoted shipping

2) Local orders that wish to pick up the order at 503 St.Clair to save shipping please advise

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Dear Friends of Terrace Horticultural Books

We are thankful for your continued support ! Hoping your holiday was festive and as wild a turkey day as you wish.
A day filled with family and friends and a joyful Thanksgiving with blessings of the day. We will be away from the shop for
Thursday and Friday, but open on Saturday Noon to 5pm at 503 St. Clair Ave. St. Paul. We will be keeping regular hours
through to the end of the year M-F. Noon to 5pm. We are happy to accommodate an appointment outside of regular hours.

All stock is reduced 10% for your holiday buying. We have good winter reads, how to garden books, and
rare and collectible books for gardeners and nature lovers; Books on pollinators and wild flowers. New, used, collectible
books, journals, old catalogs, garden artifacts and everything for all interests.,

Our website at terracehorticulturalbooks.com does not have the discount, but we do offer free domestic shipping for
any order totaling more than $20.00 of books.

Thank you, Kent Petterson
Terrace Horticultural Books
503 St. Clair Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55414
651-222-5536
[email protected]

https://twincitiesbookfestival.com/in-person-festival/2023-exhibitors/

Posting our review of Welby Smith's new book Ferns and Lycophytes of Minnesota available now.

Book Review: Ferns and Lycophytes Of Minnesota

A new flora for Minnesota from State Botanist, Welby Smith, has been added to his impressive list of work on plants in Minnesota. Ferns and Lycophytes of Minnesota is the first new field guide on ferns, (more on Lycophytes a bit later) in over 40 years. The book is published by the University of Minnesota (ISBN978-1-5179-1466-0) @ $39.95. Editors have repeated the format of Smith’s 2018 Sedges and Rushes of Minnesota, for this updated flora that incorporates rapidly advancing DNA understandings of these plants.

A previous flora, Ferns of Minnesota by Rolla Tryon was last updated in 1980. An aborted attempt at an update by Warren Wagner of the University of Michigan in partnership with Smith ended in 2000 with the death of Wagner.

With this new flora, Welby Smith has not gone alone with this addition to the Minnesota Biological Survey. Support from the Minnesota DNR, specimen photography by Richard Haug, and also help from a long list of contributors produced this fine addition to our flora. A new complete field guide of appropriate size and heft to species identification. Two pages for each species showing a distribution map, in several cases color illustrations by Smith that are actually photos that look like water color paintings, and color specimen ID photos by Haug for 80 fern species, plus 8 orders of 20 Lycophyte species.

Per Welby Smith, “At the beginning of each chapter is a page showing a collage, then the chapter is broken up into genera. At the start of each genus “subchapter” is a page showing 2-dimensional images of a leaf of each species. All the images on the order and genus pages are photographs that I took. Using photo editing software I placed the images side-by-side to show the differences - in typical field-guide style. Every image in the book is a photograph. For each species in the book, there is a page of field photos. That is, photos of the species in their natural habitat. Rick Haug took maybe 90 percent of these field photos (He’s the best field photographer I have ever seen.) A number of other people including myself took the rest of the photos.”

What about these Lycophytes? They are the club mosses, firm mosses, and ground cedars found in damp and wet areas. This reviewer once grew a miniature plant I knew as Lycopodium, Lycopodium clavatum L. or common Club Moss ID’d thanks to information in the book. I used this low growing plant for my miniature window box display. It looked like a small shrub or tree.

My friend Ron Weinhold, a wonderful naturalist from West Central Minnesota, once gave a talk on early plants. He described Equisetum as a Dinosaur’s breakfast. We have 9 of the 10 Equisetales species in America right here in Minnesota. Most of us know of these plants as horsetails or scouring rushes. I didn’t know, but they are in a fern order.

You will learn a lot about these plants and find ID help for sure in this clear and well written book. There is no doubt, Welby Smith is a giant in his field. His flora work with books on Orchids, Trees & Shrubs, Grasses and Sedges, and now Ferns and Lycophytes, together represent 40 years of field work and research. This book is a must have for any plant enthusiast.

Kent Petterson
Terrace Horticultural Books
terracehorticulturalbooks.com
651-222-5536

Day four of our Brasel family fund raiser with 20% discount on all purchases at the shop 503 St. Clair Ave. St. Paul. Hours M-F, noon to 5pm. Here are some recent aquisitions that may be of interest. Kent Petterson, Call 651-222-5536 with questions.

Dear Friends of Terrace Horticultural Books

Did you know THB has the largest North American stock of Books, journals and ephemera on gardening and natural history. Much of our stock is on shelves for your choosing or searchable at terracehorticulturalbooks.com This is our first event since the pandemic at the bookstore. It has started today,

Monday Sept 11-16, noon to 5pm. We are open for regular business M-F, noon to 5pm for hours.

This special event with storewide in store 20% discount with random prizes each day. Our Sale is designated to raise funds for the family of Michael Brasel - Hilary, Oliver, and Miles, please come Sept 11-16 Monday to Saturday noon to 5pm at 503 St. Clair Ave. Gardening and Natural History Books, Ephemera and Journals. Rose Room for Rare books and ephemera by appointment. Call or email if you have questions.
651-222-5536 and [email protected]
Free shipping at terracehorticulturalbooks.com

Friends, Terrace Horticultural Books will be selling at the Minnesota Antiquarian Book Fair July 7 and 8 and the Arena at . the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. We are returning along with 40 other dealers from around the country.
From our large stock at 503 St. Clair Ave. St.Paul we have selected a wide range of books rare and usable in the areas of our specialty gardening, plus natural history, birds, travel and exploration (including polar) and a special selection of Minnesota history and Mississippi River related. Thee store will not be open during the fair run, but if you drive by 503, the boulevard pollinator garden at that time will be spectacular with bloom for you and our insect friends. We are grateful for your support and all proceeds of sales during the fair will go to the family of our son-in-law MICHAEL BRASEL who was murdered here in St. Paul May 6th. For more details on the fair and directions go to minnesotabookfair.com Thank you, Kent Petterson

Dear Friends and Customers , Our hearts are heavy as we try to cope and help and comprehend the senseless murder of Michael Brasel our daughter Hilary's husband and father of Oliver and Miles. With regret THB is closed for a time to grieve. A gathering for MIchael will be held at O'Halloran and Murphy on Snelling Ave. in St. Paul on Thursday at 4pm, more details of a celebration of life will be available as soon as arrangements can be determined. The huge response of giving and concern is so much appreciated. Kent Petterson

Dear Friends of Terrace Horticultural Books Saturday Oct 15 from 10-5pm we will be exhibiting books at the Rain Taxi Book Festival. Join the fun of this book event and stop by our booth on the North wall middle area of the Progress Building, State Fair Grounds. Thanks, Kent Petterson

Holiday Season has arrived. Are you thinking of a gift for your favorite gardener or yourself? We have loads of quality gifts to choose from. Our Annual Fall Open House at Terrace Horticultural Books will be held November 16-23. Orders placed on our website terracehorticulturalbooks.com or when visiting our bookshop at 503 St. Clair Ave., St. Paul, MN USA will receive a first ever offered 30% discount on all merchandise listed or in stock. There is no discount on shipping.

Our store open hours are M-F noon to 5pm and Saturday 9-5pm, closed Sunday.

Website orders placed Nov. 16-23 will receive the 30% discount. All listings are subject to stock availability. Our current stock of new, used and collectible listings number over 27,000 books, journals, popular magazines, and ephemera in the areas of gardening and natural history. In many cases, we have equal or better books in back up stock. We will fill orders placed first in first out.

Please contact Kent Petterson at [email protected] or 651-222-5536 for answers to questions and information. Thank you!

New Years Resolutions to get fit can be achieved in the garden!

Open House Continues today until Saturday. Thousands of books on gardening and related natural history. Stop by until 5pm. Kent

Warren Banks to receive the 2018 Terrace Award on Nov. 10th.
Our friend Warren Banks has worked and volunteered to help home gardeners and anyone interested in horticulture be more successful in their efforts to beautify their homes, businesses and public gardens. For thirty five years Warren has been a Dakota County / University of Minnesota Master Gardener. Warren has also served as a Tree Care Advisor for twenty five years.
Warren wants everyone to know how much he appreciates the mentoring and encouragement he received along the way.
As a retired executive with Control Data, Warren has been able to apply skills learned to further the goals of the Master Gardener program. In particular he played a significant leadership role at the University of Minnesota site that is now call U-More Park.

Our Black Friday and Holiday Promotion is Green!
We recycle & promote Books about the Green Garden, and Save you some of Green with our discount
We are open Black Friday from noon until 5 pm and
9-5pm tomorrow for Small Business Saturday.
25% off all our stock
if you miss us this weekend, just mention this offer
through Dec. 23 and you will get the discount at
TerraceHorticulturalbooks.com or at our shop
503 St. Clair Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55102
M-F noon to 5 pm, 651-222-5536
Thank you, Kent Petterson

Open House starts tomorrow morning

Our Fall Open House continues through Saturday Nov. 19. Last Saturday was a special day for us as we honored the Minnesota State Horticultural Society staff for their collective contributions to horticulture in Minnesota. Pictured are from left to right Vicky Vogels, CEO Rose Eggert holding the plaque, Diane Duvall and myself. Our 25% discount from our already mostly inexpensive books continues, but will end on Saturday. Hope to see you! Call us at 651-222-5536 with questions.

The garden gate will be open for you at our Annual Fall Open House starting this Saturday Nov. 12 9-5pm
and resuming Monday through Friday noon to 5pm, ending Nov. 19. 25% discount on all books, ephemera,
catalogs, old seed packets and artifacts of the garden. Join us! Questions, 651-222-5536

The garden gate will be open at our Annual Fall Open House for you starting this Saturday Nov. 12 9-5pm and resuming Monday through Friday noon to 5pm, ending Nov. 19. Join us!

Terrace Horticultural Books is 25 years old this year and our annual fall open house week is coming up Saturday Nov. 12 to Saturday the 19th except sunday. Hours are 9-5pm on Saturdays and noon to 5pm weekdays. We are offering our special 25% discount on all books, ephemera and garden artifacts each day. On the first Saturday the 12th at 1pm we will be honoring the Minnesota State Horticultural Society staff with our Terrace Award in recognition of their 150 years of contributions to horticulture in Minnesota. Join us!

Twin Cities Antiquarian & Rare Book Fair

https://www.facebook.com/TwinCitiesAntiquarianBookFair

A book fair for collectors of all kinds. June 28th and 29th, 2019. See our page for hours and location.

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Our guests Jerry and Lee Shannon as they received our Terrace Award on Saturday. The Open House continues M-F, 12-5pm and next Saturday 9-5pm. Join us for 25% discount on purchases.

Dear Friends
Please join us for our annual Fall Open House Week beginning on Saturday Nov. 14th 9am- 5pm. We have new and used, collectible books about gardening and natural history. Join us at our showrooms, 503 St. Clair Ave., St. Paul and meet gardening friends, and take advantage of our 25%discount on everything in stock. Do your holiday shopping for your favorite gardener with us! The open house extends through Nov. 22 except for Sunday. Both Saturday’s 9-5pm, M-F 12-5pm.

We will be giving our annual Terrace Award for Outstanding Service to Horticulture in Minnesota that day. This year our co-recipients are gardeners and husband and wife team Jerry and Lee Shannon of St. Paul. We will open Nov. 14th at 9am, with the presentation at 1pm in our Showrooms. I have attached a brief review of the Shannon’s FYI and we are honored to have them with us. Please come by to join with us in thanking them for their garden and what they have taught us about what is possible in our Minnesota gardens.

Refreshments will be available as well as the 25% discount on all of our books, ephemera, seed catalogs and interesting artifacts of the garden. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you, Kent Petterson
Terrace Horticultural Books
503 St. Clair Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55102
651-222-5536

Terrace Horticultural Books is hosting it's Annual Fall Open House with 25% discount on all our books, ephemera and garden artifacts starting on Saturday morning 9-5pm and continuing the following Monday 12-5pm and the following Saturday 9-5pm again. We have new and used, yes collectible stuff and gifts for your favorite gardener or lover of nature. Join us! Questions call 651-222-5536

My favorite small fruiting tree in all it's fall glory. Amelianchier x grandiflor Autumn Splendor is showing off at the bookstore, 503 St. Clair Ave.

From novices to know-it-alls

Terrace Horticultural Books will be hosting our Fall Open House starting on Saturday Nov. 14th. At 1pm we will be honoring our friends Jerry and Lee Shannon as recipients of our 8th Annual Terrace Award given for service to horticulture in Minnesota. It is our effort to say thanks to the great contributors to gardening in our midst. Please join us for this kick off event to our open house week each day through the 21st. Generous discounts and refreshments.
Thanks, Kent Petterson
http://www.startribune.com/from-novices-to-know-it-alls/137980723/

startribune.com The Shannons of St. Paul scaled a steep learning curve to create their "collector's garden," which features specimens from around the world.

Twin Cities Antiquarian & Rare Book Fair

http://twincitiesbookfair.com
Terrace Horticultural Books will be exhibiting at the Twin Cities Antiquarian & Rare Book Fair starting on Friday. If you mention seeing this Facebook post you can receive a 25% discount on a single book purchase up to a maximum of $20. If you search our database at www.terracehorticulturalbooks.com and find an item you would like to purchase, let me know the night before at 612-963-1666 and I will bring it to the show the next day to receive your discount.

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