The University of Tennessee Arboretum Society’s 57th Spring Plant Sale will take place on Friday and Saturday, April 11-12. The public sale will be held on Saturday, April 12, from 8 a.m.
to noon at the UT Arboretum (901 S. Illinois Ave. (Highway 62), Oak Ridge).
The Society’s “Members Only” sale will be on Friday, April 11, from 4-7 p.m. Society memberships or membership renewals may be purchased on Friday evening for this “early bird” shopping opportunity.
By joining UTAS on Friday night, people can enjoy the membership benefit of having the first pick of our beautiful selection of plants, some of which sell out that evening. Checks, cash and credit cards will be accepted. You may also join UTAS online before the sale.
The three vendors for the sale are: • Tennessee Naturescapes from Clinton, an all-native plant nursery and will be offering a varied selection of all native shrubs, small trees, grasses and perennials. • Riverdale Nursery from Knoxville will feature a variety of harder to find shrubs and small trees for landscaping, perennials, annuals and vines as well as culinary herbs, vegetable starts, berries and brambles. • East Fork Nursery from Sevierville, one of the premier native azalea growers in the country, will be bringing a wide selection of those azaleas and also offers an array of unusual conifers.
UT Arboretum Society members will be on hand to help answer questions. Red wagons will be available to help load plants. The UT Arboretum Societ.