Botanical garden to host tree sale

The Hart County Botanical Garden is having its first Fall Pre-Sale Tree Sale this fall with online ordering.
From Sept. 7-28, people will be able to go on to the botanical gardens website, hartcogardens.com, and place orders for trees. The trees will then be available for pickup at the gardens in late October.
“This is a great way for tree lovers to enhance their landscape while also supporting the garden,” Hart County Botanical Garden President Lorin Clark said.
The trees are grown by two local nurseries, Transplant, Inc. and Shearouse Japanese Maple Seedling Farm.
The  selection from  Transplant includes Autumn Sunset Maple, Bartlett and Ornamental Pears, Pink Lady Apples, Kousa Dogwood, Profusion Crabapple, Pink Diamond and Phantom Hydrangeas, River Birch, Green Giant and Cedar Radican. They will offer nine to 15 of each tree in five or seven gallon containers.
There will also be 20 Shearouse Japanese Maple seedlings for sale – one each of 20 different varieties. The trees are 5 years old and are  7-gallon size.
“To have access to these two growers with their extraordinary plant stock is a rare blessing. The trees we have selected for our tree sale were skillfully grown just miles from our garden - that is a benefit many gardeners don’t enjoy,” co-director Gretchen Torrence said. “These trees will display an uncommon vigor associated with our soils and climate; that is especially important when planting a tree.”
Descriptions, sizes and prices of the trees are now on the website at hartcogardens.com in the Tree Sale online catalog. Orders will be accepted from Sept. 7-28, or until the trees are all sold. Because quantities are limited, sales will be on a first-come, first-serve basis with payments due at the time of the order. The orders will be submitted by email through a unique tree sale email address. When an order is received a garden volunteer will send a confirmation and payment request.
The tree sale will be a fundraiser for the Hart County Botanical Garden.
“We are an all-volunteer nonprofit,” Clark said. “Since our main annual fundraiser, the spring plant sale, was canceled due to the pandemic, we were excited when Gretchen proposed the Fall Pre-Sale Tree Sale.”