Join us Saturday, April 11, at UT Gardens, Knoxville
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Fill your garden with exceptional plants from the University of Tennessee Gardens Spectacular Spring Plant Sale. Thousands of thoughtfully curated plants will be available for purchase on Saturday, April 11, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Whether you are building a new garden, adding to an established landscape or enhancing your indoor plant collection, there will be something for everyone. The sale will include a wide array of edible plants, shade-loving plants, native perennial flowers, woody shrubs, tropicals and more.
Several selections will be highlighted at the featured plant tent this year including an annual herb, an incredible selection of heirloom tomatoes, a flowering shrub and a unique herbaceous perennial.
- Herb and flower lovers alike will delight in six different varieties of gomphrena. The cheerfully colored spherical flowers on this warm-season herb can be grown simply for beauty or saved as a dried flower to add a light floral flavor and an attractive tint to herbal tea blends. Choose from plants that bloom true red, deep pink, light pink, two-tone pink and white, orange or pure white.
- Heirloom tomato fans take note: more than 25 distinct strains of tomatoes including many with historical ties to Tennessee, will be on sale.
- The featured flowering shrub is called deutzia. This small, easy-to-grow, mounding shrub grows to about 4 feet tall and wide and boasts an amazing display of spring blooms. Take your pick from ‘Yuki Kabuki’ with pink flowers or ‘Snowflake’ with white flowers, and enjoy the handsome glossy foliage on both.
- The final specially presented plant will be a cultivar of the regionally native Carolina phlox known as Phlox carolina ‘Kim’. This gorgeous, pink, early summer bloomer is renowned for its sturdy, handsome appearance and excellent resistance to powdery mildew.
As always, professional horticulture staff and Tennessee Master Gardeners will be available to answer questions and provide design advice.
A preview sale will be held on Friday, April 10, from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. for all UT Gardens’ members, Gardens’ volunteers and UT employees. Garden members receive a 10% discount on all purchases. Memberships can be purchased at the sale with an immediate discount on plants.
The UT Gardens, Knoxville, is located on the UT Institute of Agriculture campus at Neyland and Jacob Drives. For a listing and prices of the huge selection of plants on sale or to a become a member, visit utgardens.tennessee.edu/locations/Knoxville.
The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture is comprised of the Herbert College of Agriculture, UT College of Veterinary Medicine, UT AgResearch and UT Extension. Through its land-grant mission of teaching, research and outreach, the Institute touches lives and provides Real. Life. Solutions. to Tennesseans and beyond. utia.tennessee.edu.