MHS Green Space!
Looking for Garden Information? You’ve come to the right place!
The MHS Green Space is your 1 Stop Spot for all garden needs.
- We celebrate + publicize all outstanding garden + green resources in the MidSouth.
- We connect new + seasoned gardeners to useful garden + environmental resources, for the purpose of pleasure, education, and community involvement.
- We showcase garden clubs + plant societies, educational opportunities, event calendars, plant sales + swaps, volunteer opportunities, and so much more.
- This is an ever-growing list. Contact the MHS to add new garden resources +/or correct information.
- Click the link + go directly to the organization’s website or Facebook page (FB). There you can find contacts, event calendars, and other pertinent information.
BEEKEEPING:
- Memphis Area Beekeepers — classes, speakers, advice
- The Bartlett Bee Whisperer — bee removal, speaker
- Memphis Backyard Farmer blog — covers many areas, including beekeeping
BIRDING:
- Memphis Chapter TN Ornithological Society
- Seasonal Occurrences of Shelby County Birds
- Strawberry Plains Audubon Center — Holly Springs, Mississippi (annual Hummingbird Migration & Nature Celebration in September)
BUTTERFLIES:
- Butterflies of TN
- Butterflies + Moths of North America – TN Sightings
- Butterflies of TN by Rita Venable — a comprehensive resource book, with colorful pictures
- Butterfly Identification Chart
CALENDAR PLANTING GUIDE:
- Memphis Area Master Gardeners Kitchen Garden Planting Guide
- National Gardening Association Planting Guide
CANNING RESOURCES:
CHICKENS + COOPS:
- East Memphis Cluckers — (FB) group raising backyard chickens
- Midsouth Chickens and Gardening! — (FB)
COMMUNITY + LEARNING GARDENS
- Angelus Community Garden, 52 Angelus St., Memphis, TN 38104
- Beltline Garden, Midland Ave & Boston St., Memphis, TN 38111
- Cunningham Community Garden, 3773 Old Allen Rd., Memphis, TN 38128
- Lyndale Community Garden, 1470 Lyndale Ave, Memphis, TN 38107
- Memphis Center for Independent Living, 1633 Madison Ave., Memphis, TN 38104
- Memphis Urban Ministries – Vance Avenue Garden, 576 Vance Ave., Memphis, TN 38126
- Merton Garden – Binghampton, N. Merton St & McAdoo Ave., Memphis, TN 38112
- Midtown North Garden, 2558 Heard Ave., Memphis, TN 38108
- Orange Mound Garden, Douglass Ave & Hamilton St., Memphis, TN 38114
- Rhodes College Community Garden, 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112
- Savory Patches Garden, Kansas St & Silverage Ave., Memphis, TN 38109
- St. Augustine Garden, 1169 Kerr Ave., Memphis, TN 38106
- Uptown-BRIDGES Community Gardens, N. 4th St. & Sycamore Ave., Memphis, TN 38105
- The Kitchen Community — non-profit builds learning gardens in Memphis schools
COMPOSTING:
- The Compost Fairy — (FB)
Cooper Young
DIY GARDEN BUILD DIRECTIONS:
ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS:
- MidSouth Greenprint — connecting communities in the Mid-South
- Project Green Fork
- Sierra Club-Memphis — (FB)
- Tennessee Scenic Rivers Association — protecting clean water +
free flowing rivers - Livable Memphis
- Wolf River Conservancy
- Memphis Metropolitan Planning Office — promotes affordable regional transportation system
- Outdoors, Inc.
- Big River Crossing
- Bluff City Canoe Club
- Greater Memphis Greenline
- Memphis Green Drinks — (FB)
- Tennessee Scenic Rivers Association
- Nonconnah Creek Conservancy —
FARMERS’ MARKETS:
- Agricenter Farmer’s Market
- Arlington Farmer’s Market
- Bartlett Station Farmer’s Market
Cooper Young Farmer’s Market- Memphis Farmer’s Market – Downtown
- Millington Farmer’s Market
- South Memphis Farmer’s Market
- Tsunami Farmer’s Market –
Cooper Young
FLOWER + GARDEN SHOWS
- Antiques + Garden Show — Nashville, TN (Feb)
- Arkansas Flower + Garden Show — Little Rock, AR (Mar)
- Nashville Lawn + Garden Show — Nashville, TN (Mar)
FLOWER ARRANGING:
- Flower Show School Design Styles — National Garden Club
GARDEN APPS: iPhone/iPad/Android
- Armitage’s Greatest Garden Plants — extensive information on annuals and perennials
iScape — digital landscaping- Garden Compass — Plant + Disease Identifier
- GrowIt — gardening community
- Gardening Companion — basic gardening information
- BeeSmart Pollinator Gardener — select bee-friendly plants
GARDEN BLOGS: lots of great reading sites
- LOCAL
- Garden Musings from Memphis Area Master Gardeners
- Flora Memphis — Stephanie & Chris Cosby
- Memphis Organic Gardening — Greg
Travor
- NATIONAL — expand your garden reading for inspirational ideas
Bloomtown — Portland, OR- Danger Garden — Portland, OR
- Diana’s Designs — Austin, TX
- Digging — Austin
,TX - enclos*ure — vintage garden photographs
- Fine Foliage
- Form and Foliage
- Fred Gonsowski Garden Home — garden designer
- Garden Bloggers’ Fling — garden blogger meetups
- Garden Design Exposed — DIY garden design
- Garden Designers Roundtable — multiple garden designers talk specific topics
- Gardenista — gardening inspiration
- Harmony in the Garden — Northern CA
- Hayefield — Pennsylvania
- Not Another Gardening Blog — Calgary, Canada
- Paper Garden Workshop — Iowa, Lisa Orgler, landscape designer
- Pith + Vigor — gardening inspiration
- Serenity in the Garden — New York
- Site + Insight — Quebec
- Sunset Garden — Western USA
- Susan Cohan Gardens — New Jersey
- Tara Dillard — Georgia
- Thinking Outside the Boxwood — Ohio
GARDEN CLUBS: Click here for each club’s contact information
Some clubs are open to new members, while others are full, due to size constraints.
- Arawata Garden Club
- Arlington Garden Club — (FB)
- Arts and Garden Club
- Bartlett Garden Club
- Batesville Garden Club — (FB)
- Bells Garden Club
Blossomway Garden Club- Budding Green Thumb Plant Club
- Byhalia Garden Club
- Central Gardener’s Club
- Circle of Flowers Garden Club
- City View Garden Club
- Collierville Garden Club
Cooper Young Garden Club (website),Cooper Young Garden Club (FB)- Cordova Garden Club
- Covington Garden Club — (FB)
- Designing Women Study Group
- Desoto Civic Garden Club — (FB)
- Dyersburg Garden Club
- Evergreen Garden Club
- Faxon 4000 Garden Club
- Garden Club of Rosemark
- Grandview Garden Club
- Germantown Garden Club
- Greenlawn Garden Club
- Greentrees Garden Club
- Hedgemore Garden Club
- Hernando Civic Garden Club — (FB)
- Hurt Hobbyist Garden Club — (FB)
- Ikebana International-Memphis Bamboo Chapter
- Interpreters Study Group
- Jackson Evergreen Garden Club
- Judges Council, District 1
- Junior League Garden Club
- Kennedy View Garden Club
- Kimbrough Woods Home & Garden Club
- Lake Drive Garden Club
- Lakewood Hills Home & Garden Club
- Laurel Garden Club
- Laurelwood Garden Club
- Le Bonheur Garden Club
- Les Bons Amis Garden Club
- Little Garden Club of Memphis (website), Little Garden Club of Memphis (FB)
- Lucy Garden Club
- Memphis African Violet Society —(FB)
- Memphis Area Hemerocallis Society –(FB)
- Memphis Area Iris Society — (FB)
- Memphis Area Master Gardeners
- Memphis Garden Club
- River Oaks Garden Club — (FB)
- Memphis & Shelby County Council of Garden Clubs
- Mustard Seed Garden Club
- Morning Glory Garden Club
- New Neighbors Garden Group
- Oak & Elm Garden Club
- Oak Grove Home & Garden Club
- Our Home and Garden Club
- Paris Garden Club
- Parkdale Garden Club
- Pearl Hooper Garden Club
- Pleasant Acres Garden Club
- Poplar Estates Garden Club
- Red Acres Garden Club
- River Oaks Garden Club
- Scenic Hills Garden Club — (FB)
- Senatobia Home and Garden Club
- Shelby East Garden Club — (FB)
- Southwind Garden Club
- Suburban Garden Club of Germantown — (FB)
- TN Federation of Garden Clubs — offers garden schools, workshops, flower shows, “Volunteer Gardener Magazine” to local garden clubs that join
- Town and Country Garden Club
- Trenton Garden Club
- Twentieth Century Home & Garden Club
- Weeders and Seeders Garden Club
- Whitehaven Iris Garden Club
- Wildflower Society of Memphis
- Wood Grove Park Garden Club
- Wooddale Estates Garden Club
- 901 Garden Club
GARDEN EDUCATIONAL CLASSES: open to the public, free or nominal cost
- AIA Memphis — community lectures, bike rides
- Bartlett Gardening Classes — great speakers, come early to get a seat
- Brooks Museum — periodic lectures on landscaping, home decor
- Dixon Gallery + Gardens — weekly Munch & Learn, speakers, symposiums, workshops, tours
- Germantown Farm Park — classes, tours, workshops
- Germantown Library Events Calendar — often have garden speakers
- Memphis Public Library Main Branch — events calendar, often has garden classes
- Millington Farmer’s Market — garden seminars May-Oct
- Millstone Nursery — monthly classes on gardening, design, cooking
- TN Naturalist Program — 40 hrs instruction
- Shelby County Extension Office — classes,
hot line , seminars, lunch + learn - Shelby Farms Greenline Park — garden workshops, family healthy events
- Sustainable Shelby County Office – calendar of events
- Urban Earth Garden Center (website), Urban Earth (FB) — seasonal Saturday garden seminars
- Urban Forestry — Tree ID class
GARDEN FACEBOOK GROUPS IN MID-SOUTH: online garden groups
- Agriculture-Gardening in the Classroom-TN
- “All About the Blooming Garden” — exchange + swap group, ask to join
- Arkansas Master Gardener Program
- Crittenden County Master Gardeners — Marion, AR
- DeSoto County Master Gardeners-Mississippi State University Extension Service
- Dirt Buddies — ask to join
- Gardeners of the Midsouth
- Gardening in Memphis — ask to join
- Grow Memphis
- Grow Memphis Garden Network
- Memphis Area Landscapers
- Memphis Area Master Gardeners
- Memphis Garden Tool Collectors
- Memphis Gardeners Group
- Memphis Greens
- Memphis Tilth
- Mississippi Master Gardener’s Program
- Oleo Acres Greenhouse + Produce
- Tennessee Native Plant Society (website), TN Native Plant Society (FB)
- Tennessee Scenic Rivers Association
- Tipton County Master Gardeners
- Tipton County TN Garden Group
- UT Gardens Jackson
GARDEN FIELD TRIPS: short trips outside Memphis
- P. Allen Smith Home/Garden Tours — Little Rock, AR
- Strawberry Plains Audubon Center — Holly Springs, MS
- Swan Conservation Trust — Summertown, TN, hiking, speakers
- UT Gardens Jackson — Jackson, TN, West TN Research & Education Center
GARDEN GRANTS – Have garden idea for a school or neighborhood? Check out these grants.
- American Community Gardening Association
- GardenABCs
- Fruit Tree Planting Foundation Grant
- Fiskars Project Orange Thumb Community Garden Grant Program
GARDEN PODCASTS: audio gardening shows
- A Way to Garden — Margaret Roach
- Cultivate Simple — Suzy + Brian Chiots
- Gardens Illustrated
- Gestalt Gardener — Felder Rushing
- Joe Gardener — Joe Lamp’l
- Plantrama — Ellen Zachos + C.L. Fornari
- Radio Garden
- Real Dirt — Ken Druse
- SodShow — John Bevan
- Still Growing — Jennifer Ebeling
- We Dig Plants
- You Bet Your Garden — Mike McGrath
GARDEN MAGAZINES + NEWSLETTERS — expand your garden knowledge
- LOCAL — more great reading online
- Dan West online newsletters — extensive list of garden articles through 2015
- Edible Memphis quarterly magazine, Edible Memphis (FB)
- Garden articles
written by Dr. Chris Cooper — Master Gardener Program UT Extension Agent - Memphis Botanic Garden “Vine Line” — monthly newsletter
- STATE, NATIONAL + INTERNATIONAL — great for quick ideas
- List of World Gardening magazine content available free
- Amateur Garden Magazine — (FB), British
- BBC Gardeners World Magazine — (FB), British
- Birds and Blooms Magazine —(FB)
- Country Gardens Magazine — (FB)
- The English Garden Magazine — (FB), British
- Fine Gardening Magazine — (FB)
- Garden Culture Magazine — (FB)
- Garden Design Magazine — (FB)
- Garden Gate Magazine — (FB)
- Gardening Australia Magazine — (FB)
- Gardens Illustrated Magazine — (FB)
- The Herb Quarterly Magazine — (FB)
- Hobby Farms Magazine — (FB)
- Horticulture Magazine — (FB)
LandScape Magazine — (FB)- Mein
Schoner Garten Magazine — (FB), German - Mother Earth News — (FB)
- Nashville House and Garden Magazine — (FB)
- Rodale’s Organic Life Magazine — (FB)
- SA Garden + Home Magazine — (FB)
- Sunset Magazine — (FB)
- TN Federation of Garden Clubs -Volunteer Gardener
- Tennessee Gardener Magazine — (FB)
- TN Home and Farm Magazine
- Vegetable Gardener — (FB)
GARDEN RADIO PROGRAMS:
- In the Garden — Sat. 6-8am, WREC 600AM, Kenneth Mabry and Vader Vance answer questions and offer gardening tips
- At the Garden — Sat. 10-11am, KWAM 990AM, Mike Allen and Lauren Squires Ready discuss the programs and activities at the Memphis Botanic Garden
GARDEN RECYCLING + BEAUTIFICATION:
- Clean Memphis — sustain a cleaner Memphis
- Memphis-Shelby County Recycling Locations and Resources
-
Lichterman Nature Center — drop off your plastic garden pots + they will re-use for plant sale
- Memphis-Shelby Office of Sustainability — Christmas Tree & Greenery Recycling
- City of Germantown Solid Waste and Recycling Guide
GARDEN SPEAKERS:
- Memphis Area Master Gardeners Speakers’ Bureau – list of topics, contact Memphis Area Master Gardeners
GARDEN VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: share your talents, learn gardening skills
- Chelsea Greenline — spruce up the line
- Dixon Gallery & Gardens —
weeding , potting, docent, garden tour guide - Lichterman Nature Center – potting, greenhouse, plant sales, privet pull
- Memphis Botanic Garden –
weeding , propagating plants, plant sales
GARDEN TOURS /WALKS: visit Memphis Gardens, get inspired!
Cooper Young Garden Walk — (3rd weekend in May) one of largest, most eclectic in the South- Through our Garden Gates — (June) Memphis Area Master Gardeners
- Mid-South Hydrangea Society — (June)
HYDROPONICS:
Mid TN Hydroponics & Gardening — Murfreesboro
INVASIVE PLANTS:
MUSHROOMS:
NATIVE PLANTS:
NATURE HIKES:
- Midsouth Permaculture Group — (FB)
PICK YOUR OWN ORCHARDS:
- Agricenter — Memphis, TN, pick your own strawberries
- Anderson Orchard — Burlison, TN, pick your own apples, raspberries, plums, pumpkins, chestnuts
- Cedar Hill Farm — Hernando, MS, pick your own blackberries. Pumpkin/gourd patches in fall.
- Harris Farms — Millington, pick your own blueberries. They also grow peas, squash.
- Jones Orchard — Millington, pick your own strawberries, plums, blackberries, peaches, nectarines, pears, and apples or buy pre-picked,
- Nesbit Blueberry Farm — Nesbit, MS
- Priddy Farms — Germantown, Christmas trees, hay rides, train rides, pumpkin patch
- Windmere Farms + Apiaries, certified
organic grown vegetables, strawberries, fruit, herbs, + bittersweet, Windmere Farms + Apiaries (FB)
PLANT IDENTIFICATION:
- Identify Plants by Seedlings — great pictures
PLANT SALES:
- Bartlett City Plant Sale — April
- Bobby Lanier Farm Park Fruit Tree Sale — Germantown, (March)
- Fayette Cares Plant Sale: (April), Oakland
- Grow Memphis Edible Plant Sale (April)
- Lichterman Nature Center Plant Sale – (April)
- Mid-South Hosta Society Plant Sale — (May)
- Memphis Botanic Gardens Plant Sale (April) + (Oct)
- Tipton County Master Gardeners Plant Sale (March)
- Zonta Club of Memphis– annual plant sale (April)
PLANT SHOWS:
- Annual Daffodil Show — Dixon Gallery & Gardens (Apr)
PLANT SOCIETIES: groups devoted to specific plants
- Ikebana Int’l Memphis Bamboo Chapter, (Japanese Art of Flower Arranging)
- Memphis + Dixie Rose Society — (FB)
- Memphis African Violet Society — (FB)
- Memphis Area Daylily Society — (FB)
- Memphis Area Iris Society — (FB)
- Memphis Bonsai Society — (FB)
- Memphis Cactus + Succulent Society — (FB)
- Memphis Fern Society
- Memphis Herb Society — (FB)
- Memphis Horticultural Society — (FB)
- Memphis Orchid Society — (FB), Memphis Orchid Society (website), 4th Sunday month, 2-4pm, MBG
- Mid-South Daffodil Society
- Mid-South Hosta Society (FB), Midsouth Hosta Society calendar
- Mid-South Hydrangea Society (website), Mid-South Hydrangea Society — (FB)
- Volunteer State African Violet Society
- West Tennessee Iris Society — (FB)
PLANT SWAPS:
- West TN Gardeners Swap Group — (FB)
- Lichterman Nature Center Annual Seed Swap + Sale — (Jan)
- 2nd Annual “That Hippie Seed Swap” in Memphis — (Feb)
- Grow Memphis Seed Swap — (Jan)
PLANT TAXONOMY: plant names, pronunciation, plant families
- Plant Latin Dictionary
- Illustrated Guide to Botanical Terms
- Botanical Latin Pronunciation Guide
- Fine Gardening-Pronunciation Guide with audio
- Virginia Tech-Meanings of Latin Names — click on name for picture + more information
- Plant Families
PUBLIC PARKS + PRIVATE GARDENS + RELAXING SPACES
- List of Parks in Shelby County
- Big River Crossing — Downtown
- Butler Park — Downtown on the Bluff
- Dixon Gallery & Gardens — East Memphis
- Elmwood Cemetery — Downtown
- Lichterman Nature Center — East Memphis
- Memphis Botanic Gardens — East Memphis
- Brooks Museum of Art — Midtown Memphis
- Memphis Zoo —Midtown Memphis
- Mississippi Greenbelt Park — Downtown along River
- Mud Island River Park — Downtown Mud Island
- Ornamental Metal Museum — Downtown
- Oaklawn Garden — Germantown
- Overton Park-Old Forest State Natural Area — (FB) Midtown Memphis
- Shelby Farms Park — East Memphis
- Tom Lee Park — Downtown
- Wolf River Greenway — East Memphis
RAISING RABBITS:
- Memphis Backyard Farmer blog — raising rabbits
SEEDS:
- Home Garden Seed Association — promotes gardening from seed
- Memphis Public Library Seed Library — Main Branch, 3rd floor, free
TOOLS:
TREES:
- TN Urban Forestry Council
- Urban Forestry Center of Excellence-Memphis
- “Under the Oaks” monthly newsletter on Trees
- Useful website on all things Trees-Memphis
TV GARDEN SHOWS + ONLINE GARDEN VIDEOS:
- The Family Plot – Gardening in the MidSouth — TV show, Dr. Chris Cooper
- Nature of Conservation Show, Judith Rutschman — schedule
- Volunteer Gardener — TV show, past episodes available online
- In the Garden with Bryce Lane — TV show, past episodes available online
- Designing Women: The Work of Ellen Shipman and Beatrix Farrand
Floratube — TV shows/videos from England and around the world- Good Gardening Videos — extensive collection
- Growing a Greener World — TV show, past episodes available online
- Central Texas Gardener — many great videos applicable to Memphis
- Garden Answer — succulents, containers, and much more
- The Victory Garden Series
- My Garden School
- Gardening Australia
- Around the Farmer’s Table — Wisconsin show-gardening, farming, cooking
- Curb Appeal
- Yard Crashers
- YouTube has an extensive list of garden videos — check out these people/shows:
WEEDS:
- Identify Weeds by Seedlings — great pictures
WORM RAISING (VERMICULTURE):
YOUTH GARDEN CLUBS + ORGANIZATIONS: