The State Botanical Garden of Tennessee, commonly known as the UT Gardens, welcomes visitors to its locations in Jackson, Crossville, and Knoxville. Each site showcases the latest research and education in horticulture and provides visitors with outstanding green spaces to learn, play, explore, and relax.
Horticultural experts with the UT Gardens evaluate some 4,000 annuals, perennials, herbs, tropical plants, trees, shrubs, vegetables, and ornamental grasses each year.
Plant of the Month
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Poppy: Spring’s Dancing Beauty
UT Gardens’ December Plant of the Month Submitted by Whitney Hale, education coordinator, UT Gardens, Knoxville For the past 6,000 years, humans have cultivated poppy flowers, including Papaver somniferum, which…
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