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

The University of Tennessee Arboretum Society’s 57th Spring Plant Sale will take place Friday and Saturday, April 11-12.

The members-only sale will be 4-7 p.m. April 11, and the public sale will be 8 a.m.-noon April 12 at the UT Arboretum at 901 S. Illinois Ave. (Highway 62) in Oak Ridge.

Those who purchase society memberships Friday will have first pick the plants, some of which are likely to sell out that evening. Checks, cash and credit cards will be accepted. Those wanting to join also may do so online before the sale, according to a press release.

The three vendors for the sale are Tennessee Naturescapes from Clinton, Riverdale Nursery from Knoxville and East Fork Nursery from Sevierville. Tennessee Naturescapes is an all-native plant nursery that will offer a selection of all-native shrubs, small trees, grasses and perennials. Riverdale Nursery will feature 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 of Sevierville, one of the premier native azalea growers in the country, will offer 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. To learn more about the society, go to utarboretumsociety.org.

This article originally appeared on Oakridger: Native plants, azaleas will be at Spring Plant Sale, April 11-12