SPRING PLANT SALE: APRIL 24 & 25Members-Only Preview Sale: April 23 (3-6 pm)
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We specialize in the rare and unusual! Choose from a wide selection of annuals, perennials, tropicals, herbs, and vegetable plants, as well as a select number of shrubs, trees, water plants, house plants, and cacti and succulents. All are available at our Spring 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.’ In 2009, look for several new hardy bananas, new elephant ears, and beautiful heirloom flowering vines.
This is the place to find big and bold tropical plants, including flamingo flower, angel’s trumpets, yellow shrimp plant, coleus, hardy bananas, and elephant ears of all colors, shapes and sizes. Beautiful tropical vines like bleeding heart vine, passionvine, and blue sky vine are always crowd pleasers.
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Red passionvine,
Passiflora vitifolia,
is a fast-growing
tropical vine.
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The zoo plant sale is also the perfect spot to find plants for your butterfly garden. We carry nectar plants such as lantana, porterweed, Mexican sunflowers, yellow coneflowers, and milkweed. Don’t forget caterpillar host plants like parsley, milkweed, spicebush, pawpaw, and pipevine. Stock your hummingbird garden with four-o-clocks, lobelia, ruellia, shrimp plant, and salvia. If you’re trying to plant more natives in your yard, we’ve made it easy for you to find them in 2009 by clearly marking all of our native plants. Check out our complete plant list for 2009.
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. We always sell out of some of our most popular items, and some of our most unusual plants are available in very small quantities, so we strongly recommend that you shop during the Members-Only Preview Sale for your best selection!
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. |
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NEW for 2009:
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| The double banana, Musa ‘Mahoi’, is considered a collector’s plant, and is hardy in the Memphis area. We’ll have 5 new hardy banana varieties this year. |
| The hardy blue passionflower, Passiflora caerulea, has fantastically beautiful blooms. It is also a host plant for gulf fritillary butterflies. |
| Milkweeds are both host and nectar plants for Monarch butterflies. We plan to offer a dozen new milkweed (Asclepias) species, in addition to our usual varieties. |
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Classic Plant Sale favorites:
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| Coral porterweed, Stachytarpheta, is an unusual hummingbird plant. Hummers love the purple ones, too! |
| The blooms of angel’s trumpet, Brugmansia, are large and exotic-looking. |
| The rarely seen Butterfly Pea Vine, Clitoria ternatea, has vibrantly blue flowers. |
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| Lantana is a “must-have” plant for any butterfly garden. |
| Dark-leaved ‘Tea Cup’ elephant ear, Colocasia ‘Tea Cup,’ collects water in its cupped leaves. |
| Exotic Love Vine, Ipomoea lobata, is an heirloom vine with tropical appeal. |
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| Chalice vine, Solandra maxima is a unique houseplant that blooms in January. |
| Succulents like this lifesaver plant, Huernia zebrina, are available in individual pots and in mixed container gardens. |
| Mexican sunflower, Tithonia, will attract butterflies, hummingbirds, and other beneficial pollinators to your garden. |
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MEMBERS-ONLY PREVIEW SALE
Zoo members get 15% off their Plant Sale purchases, and get to shop early on Thursday afternoon (April 23).
Remember, we sell out of some of our limited supply items by Friday afternoon or Saturday morning, so take advantage
of your zoo membership and
shop early for the best selection!
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Not a member yet? Click here to get in on the action!
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