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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Personality Hire with a Past: Heirloom Tomatoes
UT Gardens’ March Plant of the Month Submitted by Jennifer Northam, collections manager, UT Gardens, Knoxville The tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, which translates to comforting wolf peach, has a rather recent…
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