Garden News and Events
See also : Contact Us : About the UT Gardens
This is where you can get the latest information on the UT Gardens or find upcoming events. We offer a variety of tours, lectures, workshops and special events suitable for all ages throughout the year.
The UT Gardens was named a Conifer Reference Garden by the American Conifer Society. Read about this accomplishment at http://www.conifersociety.org/cs/
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Events
Holiday Express 2009 is Just Around the Bend
Holiday Express at the UT Gardens is a 4,000 square-foot garden railway display nestled in the beauty of the fall and winter UT Gardens. Featuring garden-scale model trains running through a perfectly proportioned miniature landscape, complete with rivers and waterfalls and decorated for the holiday season, the Holiday Express depicts the railroad history of the East Tennessee area over the period of the 1930's to present day. Visitors of all ages will be mesmerized.
Hours and Rates

Click here for an informational brochure about the Holiday Express
Books and Blooms has ended for 2009. It will resume in May, 2010 so stay tuned here for updates.
If you would like to be put on an email list to receive a weekly reminder about Books and Blooms when it resumes in 2010, please email Beth Willis at: ewillis2@utk.edu

Noon and Twilight Tours have ended for 2009. Watch this page for our next year's events!
The 2009 Friends Board of Directors:
President:
Mary Spengler
Secretary: Harriette Spiegel
Treasurer: Dennis Superczynski
Board Members:
Sam Adams
Mitzi Rouse
P.J. Snodgrass
Terumi Watson
Contact The UT Gardens
UT Gardens
Department of Plant Sciences
252 Ellington Plant Sciences Bldg
2431 Joe Johnson Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Phone: (865) 974-8265
Fax: (865) 974-1947
Email: utgardens@utk.edu

