Chasing Wildflowers Tea

Zenith Bookstore is delighted to invite you to our Chasing Wildflowers Tea at the beautiful Tasting Room (313 N Central Ave, Duluth) on Saturday, May 17th 1-3pm. All flower lovers are welcome! We will be celebrating the newly released book Chasing Wildflowers: An Adventurous Guide to Finding Minnesota’s Native Flowers in Their Unique Habitats by author Phyllis Root and photographer Kelly Povo. This is a ticketed event. Space is limited. Perfect gift for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, a birthday, or even your garden or book club!

About the Chasing Wildflowers Tea: Tickets are available online and in the store for $30 (tea only). Included in the ticket price is the Chasing Wildflowers presentation with author Phyllis Root and photographer Kelly Povo, author/photographer meet and greet, tea bar, and tea finger foods catered by MidCoast Catering. Or you may purchase a tea ticket and pre-order the book Chasing Wildflowers for $55. No other discounts apply. Pre-ordered books will be available for pick-up at the event. Please let us know when purchasing your ticket if you’d like to request gluten-free or vegan food or email us at events@zenithbookstore.com. If you purchase your ticket online, we will have a will-call area at the event. Tickets are non-refundable but you may transfer them. Please note: Last day to purchase tickets is Monday, May 12th at noon.

About the Book: In the years since Searching for Minnesota’s Native Wildflowers (2018) was published, it won’t surprise readers that Phyllis Root and Kelly Povo have just kept exploring. The response to their first flower book collaboration was so great that it led to their own kind of “flower chasers” identity, including the growing season audio postcards they’ve done since 2019 with Minnesota Public Radio and their Flower Chasers blog. For some time, they have been considering a follow-up book, and now we have one with Chasing Wildflowers: An Adventurous Guide to Finding Minnesota’s Native Flowers in Their Unique Habitats. In this new book, Root and Povo focus on exploring those smaller habitats beyond the main biomes of prairie, north woods, big woods—exploring patterned fens, forested swamps, the rocky north shore, dry hill prairies, even the natural afterlife of an open pit mine, all in search of those less-common wildflowers. This tighter focus on habitat focus allows for some truly rich writing on the places they explore, and the flowers they find (including all forty-four seeable orchids and thirteen milkweeds).