Join Board Member & former KBGA staff, Dan Steinhoff, on a special, extended tour of KBGA’s unique & historic tree collection. The group will stop to enjoy a bring your own picnic lunch at 11:30am, then continue on to see more of the remarkable trees across the property. Please bring water, a hat, and your picnic lunch!

Join us for our monthly version of Story Thyme! Our preschool program features engaging stories, nature exploration, hands-on gardening, crafts and other activities that nurture the youngest gardeners and their grownups.

Join Plant Curators for a hands-on class learning how to create a kokedama, using beautiful houseplants with unique foliage that thrive in your home year round. Participants will learn about kokedama maintenance and a bit about the Japanese art of kokedama. All materials will be provided and each participant will take home their own creation.

Support the gardens through the purchase of beautiful spring plants.

Support the gardens through the purchase of beautiful spring plants.

Join Board Member & Master Gardener Susan Kiss for an exploration of the garden landscape through the lens of pollination. Come learn about what makes a landscape prime for pollinators while you take a stroll through the gardens.

Learn the long-standing practice of pressing plants for both artistic and scientific purposes and find out about the work being done by the University of Tennessee Herbarium. Participants will gain hands-on experience pressing plant specimens, learn how to mount pressed plants on paper for preservation, and go home with a mini specimen to display.

Join us for our monthly version of Story Thyme! Our preschool program features engaging stories, nature exploration, hands-on gardening, crafts and other activities that nurture the youngest gardeners and their grownups.

Visit with friends, family and colleagues while sipping champagne and enjoying a seated lunch in our beautiful Dogwood Center. Hats in Bloom features milliner Patricia Frankum’s designer hats and lunch by Holly Hambright of Holly’s Gourmet’s Market.

Join the directors of the Museum of Infinite Outcomes in an exploration of spring ephemerals!

A guided tour of KBGA’s unique & historic tree collection for the spring.

Come learn how to make your own simple syrups with garden ingredients.

Join us to discover the wonders that lie hidden in the miniature world of mosses.

Our annual Fall Festival celebrates the end of the growing season with community dance and music performances, hands-on fall crafts and activities, and many local artists and nonprofits.

Let the sounds of the symphony guide you through the Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum as KSO musicians perform the music of Bach, Boccherini, and Pachelbel throughout the gardens. This fun, interactive concert is free and open to the public. No tickets are required. Lawn chairs, blankets, and walking shoes are encouraged.

Every year individuals and organizations across Knoxville plant sunflower seeds, to grow flowers to harvest on Labor Day. Led by local artist and friend of the gardens, Gerry Moll, growers and participants weave thousands of flowers on a chain link substrate to create a massive circle built of flowers. Each sunflower represents the harvest of an individual's effort while the circle of sunflowers represents the sum of all of our efforts over the past year. Artists and musicians aid in the festival celebration. We hope you will join us for this wonderful, annual community event.

Come explore our wildflower meadow through a short, guided sketching practice led by our friends at the Museum of Infinite Outcomes here in Parkridge.

Our Spring Plant Sale will be held on May 6th. We’re excited this year to have stock from several local and regional nurseries, including East Fork Nursery in Sevier County and Hoffman Nursery in North Carolina.