If you've visited public gardens in Memphis or within a day's drive, please let Chris know, (e-mail address) so she can post them.

Memphis Botanic Garden, 750 Cherry Rd. in Audubon Park, 901-685-1566, is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 11 am. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Winter hours, effective from Nov. 1 to April 2, are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday.

Admission is $5 for adults; $4 for seniors 62 and over; $4 for children 3 to 12; free for children under 2 and members of the Memphis Botanic Garden.

Areas of interest include the Municipal Rose Garden, Tennessee Bicentennial Iris Garden, Little Garden Club Sensory Garden, the Japanese Garden of Tranquility, herb garden, daylily garden, hydrangea and hosta trail, woodland and native plant garden and Daffodil Hill. The botanic garden is home to many plant societies and garden clubs.

Its annual "Spring's Best Plant Sale" is just that - the biggest and best plant sale in the city featuring plants grown in its volunteer greenhouse as well as many provided by local nurseries. For more information go to MemphisBotanicGarden.com

Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 4339 Park, (901-761-5250) is open Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. It is closed on Monday.

Admission is $5 for adults; $4 for seniors over 60; students and children are free. Members of the Dixon Gallery and Garden are also admitted free.

Formal and informal gardens are included in the 17-acre site once occupied by Hugo and Margaret Dixon. Mature oak and hickory trees offer shade for the extensive collection of azaleas, dogwoods, boxwoods, hydrangeas and woodland wildflowers.

The Memphis Garden Club Cutting Garden is the source of flowers used in the arrangements in the gallery. Members of the garden club change the arrangements twice a week all year long. Diane Reed, manager of horticulture, and her staff organize a wildflower sale every spring and present gardening programs all year. For more information go to Dixon.org

Lichterman Nature Center 5992 Quince Road, Memphis, TN 38119, 901-767-7322

The first accredited nature center in the United States, is an urban nature center set amid 65 acres of lake, meadows and forest and is home to a wide variety of plants. Its annual spring native plant sale features plants, some of them rarely available commercially, propagated by volunteers. It is a certified arboretum.

Admission: $6, adults; $5.50 for seniors 60 and up; $4.50 for children 3 to 12; children under 3 are free. Go to memphismuseums.org/nature.htm

Outside the Memphis area:

Garvan Woodland Gardens in Hot Springs, Ark. garvangardens.org