University of Delaware Botanic Gardens

Showing off our beautiful spring blooms around the gardens!

Color in landscape design shapes mood and movement, and in “My Coloring Book,” Joe Henderson, horticulturist at Chanticleer Garden, invites us to embrace both intentional choices and spontaneous combinations to create expressive, personal gardens. Join us at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 19 in Townsend Hall for our spring lecture. More info and tickets can be found here:
https://events.udel.edu/event/my-coloring-book-lecture-at-ud-botanic-gardens?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=University+of+Delaware

Rhododendron 'George Tabor' as described by our Collections Manager: This Rhododendron is not commonly found in the trade, but it should be! It boasts some of the largest flowers for an azalea and produces many flowers per plant as well. Pink-salmon flowers with a speckled throat make for a worthwhile time to stick your schnozz up close and personal and see what the bees see!

Help us build a vibrant garden entry that welcomes and connects our students and community. The Townsend East Lawn and Garden project is almost entirely donor-funded, and we’re close to reaching our goal. As part of that effort, we’re participating in I Heart UD Day—if you’d like to help bring this project to completion, please visit this link: https://givingday.udel.edu/giving-day/112282/department/119111?_hsenc=p2ANqtz--U51ektWEAvkyyK8yoCL6NhZ1RjEzFhvBDC6n9wFQkCAdtKhnylNSXV1Gww-ZGz1SpB7WA7gwgRLLZ_JcfiYxKpPfftQ&_hsmi=416184624.
Thank you!

A few moments from our Patron Night on Wednesday! Thank you to everyone who came and showed their support!
Join us for our Annual Spring Benefit Plant Sale today, Friday, April 24 from 3 - 6 p.m. and Saturday, April 25 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
PLEASE NOTE: parking for Friday evening is in the field behind our nursery. A map can be found on the spring sale event page.

Beautiful blooms and colors in the gardens this spring!

Two weeks from today we welcome the whole community to our Annual Spring Benefit Plant Sale! We hope you can join us on Friday, April 24 from 3 - 6 p.m. and Saturday, April 25 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. PLEASE NOTE: parking for Friday evening is in the field behind our nursery. Here is a map: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yeTP8iKNMYbTt5dCOIqEaKVokMDVdabK/view?usp=drivesdk

The gardens are waking up for the season. Enjoy a few highlights!

Member shopping is now live in our online store through April 1. Enjoy a snapshot of what’s blooming in the nursery this week. If you’re a member and did not receive your store access email, please let us know. Interested in becoming a member? Visit our website to learn more: https://canr.udel.edu/udbg/join-us/memberships-giving/become-a-member/

In-person shopping will be open to the public on April 24 and 25.

Happy first day of spring, fellow gardeners! Here to help us celebrate is our beautiful creeping phlox, just starting to bloom in our nursery and ready to thrive in your garden.

Our Magnolia biondii, aptly nicknamed Hope for Spring, burst into bloom earlier this week. Our specimen was grown from wild-collected seed in northern China in 1998. As the earliest-blooming magnolia in our collection, its beautiful, fragrant white flowers often last only a few days before frost claims them. This year, instead of frost, we were greeted with snow… which feels about right for the kind of season we’ve been having.