Stephen F. Austin State University

A wide variety of hard to find, “Texas Tough” plants will be available including an assortment of butterfly gingers, unusual ornamental grasses such as bamboo muhly, fiber optic grass, and bronze sedge. Gardeners will find colorful foliage plants like Joseph’s coat and a variety of coleus to provide sizzling, summer-long color. Other unusual plants include cool coneflowers such as the new orange ‘Sundown’ and fragrant yellow ‘Harvest Moon’, deer resistant salvias, a variety of rain lilies, and the must-have Chinese lanterns. As usual, shoppers will find a good assortment of natives, perennials, annuals, tropicals, and shrubs, trees, and vines.

Proceeds benefit the SFA Mast Arboretum, Pineywoods Native Plant Center, Ruby M. Mize Azalea Garden and their educational programs. All of the plants are produced at SFA by the staff, students and volunteers. The public is encouraged to arrive early and bring a wagon.

For more information and a list of plants for sale call 468-4404, or visit http://arboretum.sfasu.edu and click on “upcoming events.”