Specialty plant sale and lecture at UT Gardens, Nov. 15

The UT Gardens, Knoxville, is an American Conifer Society Reference Garden and it's collection includes numerous specimens of interest to local gardeners. Photo courtesy UTIA.

A Specialty Plant Sale & Lecture: Conifers for the Home Garden will be conducted at the University of Tennessee Gardens on Sunday, November 15. Experts will lecture about some of the most beautiful evergreen trees and shrubs available and how best to use them in your landscape. The event is indoors at the University of Tennessee Brehm Animal Science Arena, 2506 River Drive, on the UT agricultural campus. This is near the UT Gardens, Knoxville.

Visitors are invited to attend the free lecture by UT plant science faculty members Sue Hamilton and Andy Pulte from 1:30 - 3 p.m., to be followed by a conifer sale from 3 – 5 p.m.

Conifers are adaptable to a wide range of soil and site conditions and provide the perfect anchor and companion plant in any landscape and ideal for providing four-season interest. After the lecture, shop at the UT Gardens conifer sale for exclusive and hard-to-find selections and add to your low-maintenance landscape.

Limited quantities are available. The UT Gardens is an American Conifer Society Reference Garden and its staff has used their experience to search far and wide to choose selections that perform best in our mid-South region. More than 140 different conifer selections are being offered including pine (Pinus), Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria), arborvitae (Thuja), hemlock (Tsuga), yew (Taxus), Japanese plum yew (Cephalotaxus), juniper (Juniperus), cypress (Cupressus), cedar (Cedrus), false cypress (Chamaecyparis), and Dawn redwood (Metasequoia), bald cypress (Taxodium), spruce (Picea), Japanese elkhorn cypress (Thujopsis).

A complete list of all conifers to be sold along with prices can be found at: utgardens.tennessee.edu.

Published November 14, 2015