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Upcoming Events for Tennessee
To submit your gardening event to our staff, submit it using our contact form or send an email to calendar@statebystategardening.com.
February 10-12
Memphis
Green your Home Winter Plant Sale
Memphis Botanic Garden
Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Sunday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Keep your home green through the winter months. Choose from a beautiful selection of houseplants, custom potting by Rick Pudwell (your pot or ours), and specialty garden gift items. Garden staff and Master Gardeners available to assist with plant care tips and purchases.
Free to the Public.
For information call 901-636-4100
www.memphisbotanicgarden.com
February 11
Knoxville
Winter Bonsai Display
Knoxville Botanical Garden
10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.
The Knoxville Bonsai Society will hold its third annual Winter Bonsai Display in the Garden Club Room at the Knoxville Botanical Garden. Displaying in winter allows for the viewer to see the delicate structure of deciduous bonsai such as Japanese maples and American hornbeams, which can be much more impressive than with all the leaves in place. Please come and enjoy some of the nicest bonsai in the region free of charge.
865-862-8717
www.knoxgarden.org
February 18
Memphis
The Dream Team Steps Up to Curb Appeal Seminar
Memphis Botanic Garden
Sponsored by The Memphis-Area Master Gardeners. Speakers Patty Rainey, Tommie Criswell-Jones, Mary Iberg and Rick Pudwell will address various topics all aimed at helping homeowners increase the curb appeal of their property. 9 a.m. to Noon in Hardin Hall of Memphis Botanic Garden. The cost is $3 for Botanic Garden members and $8 for non-members. For further information, please visit www.memphisareamastergardeners.org or contact Caroline Forster at 901-384-8979.
February 22
Memphis
Munch and Learn: Winter-Flowering Plants with Dale Skaggs
Dixon Gallery & Gardens
12:00 p.m.
The winter landscape, normally thought of as bleak and dreary, will come alive for you as Dale describes the many winter-blooming plants that can grace your garden.
901-761-5250
www.dixon.org
February 25
Chattanooga
Community Garden Workshop
Crabtree Farms
8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Are you interested in starting a community garden, but don’t quite know how to begin? Have you ever been part of a community garden, and would like to learn some new strategies to make the garden more successful in the future?
If you are a beginning gardener or a seasoned grower, everybody can learn something new at the Crabtree Farms’ Community Garden Workshop. Building on the success of our three previous Community Garden Workshops, we hope to provide an intensive program that will help you gain the knowledge you need to start and maintain a successful, productive and community-building garden. Come network with other aspiring community gardeners, hear interesting and informative advice from the staff at Crabtree Farms, and leave renewed, excited and prepared to get your project going!
To register for the workshop by the February 17 deadline, see crabtreefarms.org/events/community-garden-workshop.
1000 East 30th St.
423-493-9155
March 1-4
Nashville
23rd Annual Nashville Lawn & Garden Show
The Horticultural Association of Tennessee will present the 23rd Annual Nashville Lawn & Garden Show on Thursday, March 1 through Sunday, March 4, 2012 at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds. Tennessee's premier horticultural event, the Nashville Lawn & Garden Show attracts more than 22,000 people annually and is one of the largest gardening shows in the South. http://www.nashvillelawnandgardenshow.com/
March 2-4
Cookeville
Upper Cumberland Home & Garden Show
Hyder Burks Pavilion
Event hours are Friday 4-8 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. – 8 p.m. and Sunday 12-4 p.m. Presented by the Home Builders Association of the Upper Cumberland, 931-528-7472, www.uchba.com.
March 23 and 24
Memphis
Spring Fling
Memphis Agri-Center
The annual Spring Fling presented by the Memphis-Area Master Gardeners offers free gardening seminars and a vendor area featuring plants and garden-related products. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. For more information on the event, please visit www.memphisareamastergardeners.org or contact Linda Taylor at 901-483-4851.
March 30 – April 1
Chattanooga
Marie Humphreys Spring Wildflower Festival and Native Plant Sale
Chattanooga Arboretum and Nature Center
Time: During regular operating hours
We’ll have educational events during the plant sale including demonstrations, workshops, canoe trips, and guided wildflower walks and hikes.
423-821-1160
www.reflectionriding.org
March 31 – April 1
Nashville
Photo courtesy of Connie Cottingham
Daffodil Show
Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art
Come and explore the magical world of daffodils at the annual Daffodil Show sponsored by the Middle Tennessee Daffodil Society (www.daffodiltn.org) in Botanic Hall. Anyone who has a fabulous specimen of a daffodil is more then welcome to enter the show. Please have your entry at Cheekwood by 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 31. Saturday – 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
unday – 11:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. For more information contact show chair Ann McKinney at 615-377-6848 or annmckinney1@aol.com.
March 31
Nashville
Native Plant Sale
Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art
10:00 a.m. till all plants are sold!
Early bird catches the worm at this annual springtime plant sale. Arrive early for the best selection of native plants to add to your garden. Choose from spring-blooming wildflowers such as trillium and celandine poppies or summer-blooming ones such as black-eyed Susans and summer phlox. Do not miss our great selection of shrubs, vines and small trees. There is something for everyone’s garden at the sale. Sponsored by the Garden Club of Nashville. 615-356-8000, info@cheekwood.org, www.cheekwood.org.
April 13-15
Franklin
Bloom ‘n’ Garden Lawn and Garden Show
Ag Expo Center
Tennessee’s largest plant sale, the Green Academy, show gardens, vendor booths, plant diagnostics center and much, much more! Speakers and educational workshops are scheduled throughout the three-day event. Friday and Saturday: 9 a.m. – 7 p.m., Sunday: 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Adults $8,
hildren under 12 free,
-day pass $10.
ickets are available at the door. 4215 Long Lane, off I-65 at Exit 61 – Peytonsville Road. For more information, call 615-973-2112 or email info@bloomngarden.com.
April 14
Brighton
Tipton County Lawn and Garden Expo
Brighton Middle School
Dynamic speakers have been engaged, plus much more. It’s FREE. Attendees will have an opportunity to visit many vendors, garden displays, and demonstrations on composting, plant propagation, making rain barrels, herb/vegetable gardening, etc. In addition, there will be a children’s workshop. 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. 7785 Hwy 51 South (west at traffic light). www.tiptoncountymastergardeners.com, 901-476-0231
April 21-22
Chattanooga
12th Annual Spring Plant Sale & Festival
Crabtree Farms
Saturday
8 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Sunday
11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Join us for the 12th Annual Spring Plant Sale & Festival at Crabtree Farms! With workshops, crafts, beautiful garden plants and food, it’s a day of fun for the whole family. Admission and parking are free. Don’t miss your chance to get the healthiest fruit and veggie plants for your spring and summer garden!
1000 East 30th St.
423-493-9155
crabtreefarms.org
April 28
Knoxville
10th Annual Spring Plant Sale
Ijams Nature Center
9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
The Spring Plant Sale features eight local nurseries selling wildflowers, shrubs and trees. Garden flowers, vegetables, outdoor crafts, pottery, birdhouses, metal works and decorations will also be available. Proceeds benefit Ijams Nature Center’s natural areas and trails.
Free Wildlife Walks: Throughout the day we’ll be conducting free wildlife walks on the trails at Ijams. Sponsored by the Island Home Community Partnership.
Admission: Free
Contact: Ed Yost 865-577 4717 ext. 29 or eyost@ijams.org
www.ijams.org
June 2
Shelby County
Through Our Garden Gates Garden Tour
Northwest Quadrant of Shelby County
The Memphis-Area Master Gardeners are sponsoring the 3rd Annual Through Our Garden Gates Garden Tour, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. A series of private gardens in the northwest quadrant of Shelby County will be featured on the tour. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/pages/Through-Our-Garden-Gates-Garden-Tour/162513183805758 or contact Anne Krekelberg at 901-833-0416.
State-by-State Gardening assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of listed events. It is recommended that you verify the date, time and location of any event you plan to attend.
