Give to AHL Donate to the Andersen Horticultural Library at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum

The Andersen Horticultural Library relies on the generosity of the community to help fund its operations.  Your funds to help us get books, seed and nursery catalogs, and journals unique to our collection. Benefactors ensure our library's ability to educate and inspire.

Make a gift

Gifts to the Andersen Horticultural Library can be designated for the following areas:

  • General needs (no minimum):  Gifts to this fund will be used to purchase books, journals, seed and nursery catalogs, and for general needs of the Andersen Horticultural Library. 
  • Library endowment (minimum $100):  Gifts to this fund will support the Andersen Horticultural Library into the future.
  • Rare and special materials (minimum $500):  Gifts to this fund will be used to purchase rare books and other materials of special importance to AHL's collections.  These materials will be housed in AHL's secure climate-controlled room to preserve them for future generations.

For questions about making a donation, please call the library at 612-301-1239 or email HortLib@umn.edu.

Make a secure online gift via credit card, or make your check payable to Andersen Horticultural Library and send it to:


Andersen Horticultural Library
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
3675 Arboretum Drive
Chaska, MN 55318

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Friends of the Andersen Horticultural Library

Become a Friend

Attend interesting talks on a variety of subjects in person or via Zoom, special events, gain early access to the Book Sale, and meet others interested in supporting this very special place by becoming a Friend of the Andersen Horticultural Library!  All interested members of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum are eligible to join.

Annual dues for the Friends of the Andersen Horticultural Library (FAHL) are $15 for a household. Please print out, complete, and mail the registration form (PDF).

Member benefits

  • Bi-Annual Friends of AHL Newsletter sent via email 
  • Early-access to the annual Friends of AHL Book Sale on the Thursday before the event.  
  • Quarterly meetings featuring educational speakers. Held on the fourth Monday of January, April, July, and October both in-person and via Zoom. Topics are related to natural history, horticulture, or the Arboretum and/or library.

Upcoming events

Friends events are open to members and their guests unless otherwise specified.

Quarterly Meeting
Monday, April 22, 1 p.m.
Snyder Auditorium and Zoom
Speakers: Karen and Jerry Zierdt, American Dahlia Society
Jerry & Karen Zierdt have grown & exhibited dahlias for over 40 yrs and have been members of the MN Dahlia Society and the American Dahlia Society (ADS) since 1980.  They are ADS-accredited Senior judges. Together they are responsible for the judging of the Society’s local shows and the North Central Trial Garden at the Arboretum, where un-disseminated 3-yr old seedlings are entered by hybridizers throughout the country and evaluated for their worthiness for commercial introduction. They have presented seminars on dahlias at the State Fair, Home & Garden Show and various garden clubs throughout the state.
Topic: Knowing and Growing Dahlias: Learn about the colors, forms, types, characteristics  of dahlias, along with the cultural aspects of growing and storing them.

 

Annual Meeting
Monday, July 22, 1 p.m.
Snyder Auditorium and Zoom
Speaker: Christine Hoffman, Twin Cities Flower Exchange
Christine Hoffman is a local flower advocate striving to form a strong community of sustainable flower farmers, small business owners, and folks who care about supporting these mindful endeavors. Her floral business, Foxglove, opened in 2013 and was the impetus for working with local farms and flowers. This led to the development of a local flower wholesale hub, Twin Cities Flower Exchange, founded by Christine in 2017. By providing local, sustainable options to traditional flower sourcing, she hopes to help foster change in the floral industry.
Topic: Local, sustainable, environmentally friendly flower growing and sales
Over 80% of the cut flowers we buy in the U.S. are grown overseas, but cut flowers are once again on the rise as a value-added specialty crop for small American farms. Twin Cities Flower Exchange was developed as a hub for selling cut flowers to wholesale buyers. As the first and only 100% local and chemical-free wholesale market in the country, The Exchange is creating a new model for the wholesale floral industry and fostering a vibrant local floral economy.

 

Book sale

Book donations for the 2024 Book Sale are now being accepted through August 15th.

We accept books from ALL genres that are in new or good used condition! Please drop donations off during open hours, or call in advance to schedule time if you are donating a large number of items. 

*New This Year: We are no longer accepting CDs. We also do not accept textbooks, magazines, or outdated reference items. 

If you are unsure if an item will be accepted, please contact us at hortlib@umn.edu.

 

 

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