SFA to host fall plant sale

The annual Fabulous Fall Festival plant sale at Stephen F. Austin State University ’s Mast Arboretum will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at the intramural field on Wilson Drive.

“As usual, a great selection of rare, unusual, and Texas-tough trees, shrubs, vines, herbaceous perennials, and grasses will be available,” said Dawn Stover, Mast Arboretum research associate. Staples of the fall sale include asters, garden mums, and sages, as well as several outstanding varieties of ornamental grasses.

Greg Grant, Pineywoods Native Plant Center research associate, will have a wide range of native trees available including oaks, pines, red maple, and black walnut, with fall being the best time to establish trees according to Stover.

“There will be a number of hard to find items including native and hybrid coral bean, crinum lilies, the rare Brazoria sabal palm, the new hybrid coneflowers, variegated sky vine, giant Farfugium, and the rare Hibiscus hamabo. We will also offer a line of drought resistant plants like snake herb, wooly stemodia, bamboo muhly grass and heliotrope. ” Stover said.

Proceeds from the plant sale help support the SFA Mast Arboretum, the Ruby Mize Azalea Garden, the Pineywoods Native Plant Center, and educational programs.

For more information, call (936) 468-4404 or visit the Web site at: http://arboretum.sfasu.edu/


Photo by Bruce Partain.