UT Arboretum Society's Spring Plant Sale set for April 11-12

The University of Tennessee Arboretum Society’s 57th Spring Plant Sale volition instrumentality spot Friday and Saturday, April 11-12.

The members-only merchantability volition beryllium 4-7 p.m. April 11, and the nationalist merchantability volition beryllium 8 a.m.-noon April 12 astatine the UT Arboretum astatine 901 S. Illinois Ave. (Highway 62) successful Oak Ridge.

Those who acquisition nine memberships Friday volition person archetypal prime the plants, immoderate of which are apt to merchantability retired that evening. Checks, currency and recognition cards volition beryllium accepted. Those wanting to articulation besides whitethorn bash truthful online earlier the sale, according to a property release.

The 3 vendors for the merchantability are Tennessee Naturescapes from Clinton, Riverdale Nursery from Knoxville and East Fork Nursery from Sevierville. Tennessee Naturescapes is an all-native works nursery that volition connection a enactment of all-native shrubs, tiny trees, grasses and perennials. Riverdale Nursery volition diagnostic harder-to-find shrubs and tiny trees for landscaping, perennials, annuals and vines, arsenic good arsenic culinary herbs, rootlike starts, berries and brambles. East Fork Nursery of Sevierville, 1 of the premier autochthonal azalea growers successful the country, volition connection a wide enactment of those azaleas and besides offers an array of antithetic conifers.

UT Arboretum Society members volition beryllium connected manus to assistance reply questions. Red wagons volition beryllium disposable to assistance load plants. To larn much astir the society, spell to utarboretumsociety.org.

This nonfiction primitively appeared connected Oakridger: Native plants, azaleas volition beryllium astatine Spring Plant Sale, April 11-12