ANNUAL ZOO PLANT SALE:  APRIL 24 - 26, 2009

Angel’s trumpets (Brugmansia) are one of our most popular plants each year.

Choose from a wide selection of annuals, perennials, tropicals, herbs, and vegetable plants, as well as unusual and hard-to-find shrubs and trees, and a select number of water plants, house plants, and cacti and succulents.  All are available at our Zoo Plant Sale, held annually in April.

We offer many beautiful and hard-to-find plants that are grown from seeds and cuttings of the specimens in our horticultural collection. Each year we also strive to offer some of the newest plant varieties on the market, such as 2008’s introduction, the specialty elephant ear, Colocasia esculenta ‘Tea Cup.’

Customer favorites each year include bamboo (Phyllostachys species), porterweed (Stachytarpheta), flamingo flower (Justicia carnea), yellow shrimp plant (Pachystachys lutea), tiny mice cuphea (Cuphea llavea), angel’s trumpets (Brugmansia), bleeding heart vine (Clerodendron thomsoniae), blue sky vine (Thunbergia grandiflora), moonvine (Ipomoea alba), hardy bananas (Musa basjoo), and elephant ears of all shapes and sizes. 

The Memphis Zoo horticulture staff and Master Gardeners are on hand during the sale to answer your gardening questions. The sale is located at the zoo’s service entrance, off of North Parkway. Admission to the sale is free. All proceeds from the sale directly benefit the Memphis Zoo, so shop with us and know that your plant dollars are benefiting the care and feeding of our zoo animals. 

The zoo’s spring Plant Sale is held each year in April. Zoo members always get to shop a day ahead of the general public, and receive a 15% discount on all Plant Sale purchases.  To get an idea of the plants offered, click here for the plant list from 2008. The 2009 plant list will be posted closer to the date of sale.

Join our Plant Sale mailing list!  We’ll send you a flyer reminding you of the Plant Sale dates, and listing some of our newest plant selections, a week or two before the sale each year. Email your name and mailing address to JMaybry@memphiszoo.org.

Chalice vine (Solandra maxima) is one of the unusual tropical plants vailable. We carry many plants that are hard to find anywhere else in the  Memphis area.                 The colorful tropicals above  are Alocasia ‘Amazon Mask’ and a red-leafed croton.               Colocasia ‘Tea Cup,’ a dark-leafed elephant ear that will collect and hold water in its cupped leaves, was offered for the first time at our plant sale in 2008.

Passionflowers have enchanting flowers, and are host plants for fritillary butterflies. Our varieties always sell out quickly.  From left, Passiflora ‘Betty Myles Young,’ Red Passionflower (Passiflora coccinea), and Passiflora ‘Inspiration.’ ‘Betty Myles Young’ and ‘Inspiration’ are both hardy in the Memphis area.

MEMBERS-ONLY PREVIEW SALE:  APRIL 23 Zoo members get 15% off their Plant Sale purchases, and get to shop a day early. We sell out of some of our limited supply items by Friday afternoon or Saturday morning, so take advantage of your zoo membership to shop early for the best selection! Not a member yet? Click here to get in on the action!