Clayton County Plant Sale
2024 Plant Sale
Q. When can I pre-order my plants?
Pre-order sales will be accepted from Thursday, August 1st until Friday, September 27th, 2024. Pre-ordering streamlines payment and secures your order.
Q. How do I know how much each plant costs?
All plants and their associated prices can be found on this 2024 Plant Sale Price List.
Q. When do I pick up my plants? What if I am not available?
All orders will be available for pick up on Friday, October 18th, 2024, 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. at the UGA Clayton County Extension Office located at 1262 Government Circle in Jonesboro. Please plan ahead and ask a friend or family member to pick up your order if you are not able to come on pick up day. Any orders not picked up will be donated to local restoration efforts. We are unable to offer refunds for unclaimed orders. If you have any questions, please feel free to call us at (770) 473-3945 or email us at ClaytonExtension@uga.edu.
Q. What if I need to cancel or alter my order?
We understand that plans change from time to time. After October 4th, no refunds will be offered. No alterations to the order will be made after October 4th, please contact our office at (770) 473-3945 or ClaytonExtension@uga.edu to request changes before October 4th.
Q. How will pick-up work?
We have organized the day for an easy, quick process for pick-up. When you arrive, you will follow signage in the parking lot of the Extension Office and get in the line of cars. You will be asked your name or order number. We will pull your order and load them into your car. You will not need to exit your vehicle. However, if you need to organize the plants in your car, we will provide a safe place for you to do so. Staff and volunteers will be on site to guide you through the process.
Q. What if my plants won’t fit in my vehicle?
Please plan ahead and assess the number of vehicles needed for your order. You may need multiple cars depending on the size of your order. For very large orders, you may find a pickup truck bed or similar is easier.
Q. What if I'm new to gardening?
The UGA Clayton County Extension is here to help! When you arrive to pick up your plants, you will also receive a packet of information specific to your order. The packet will include detailed information about all of your purchases. In addition, we will have Master Gardeners on site to answer questions you may have. Finally, as always, you can reach out to your UGA Clayton County Extension office for all of your gardening and landscaping questions.
Q. Is the pick-up date subject to change?
Unfortunately, yes. We will do our very best to honor the set date for pickup. However, emergency situations can sometimes delay our receipt of the plants from the nurseries. If we have to change the pickup day, we will notify you by email as soon as possible. As long as we have the plants from the nurseries, the pick-up day will happen rain or shine!
Fruits
Apple
Gala
While apples need some care such as yearly pruning and fertilizing, a well cared for tree will produce abundant fruit for years to come. Plant at least two trees to ensure a bountiful harvest as apple trees need a companion tree in order to cross pollinate.
Gala: Excellent quality apple. Good for fresh eating or salads. Ripens early August. (20-25 ft tall)
Blackberry
Arapaho
Easy to grow and free of thorns, blackberries can make a fun and delicious addition to your garden.
Arapaho: Early- to mid-season thornless blackberry with prolific medium size fruit (4-6 ft tall)
Blueberry
Blueberries are relatively pest free and require little care once established. Plant at least two bushes, each of a different variety, for cross-pollination.
Pink Lemonade: Pink berries, medium berry size, early season ripening (4-8 ft tall)
Blueberry
Blueberries are relatively pest free and require little care once established. Plant at least two bushes, each of a different variety, for cross-pollination.
Vernon: Large berry size, early season ripening (6-8 ft tall)
Nectarine
Ripens early in May with large, yellow clingstone fleshed fruits. Self-fertile and hardy, this tree will provide you with an abundance of fruit for years to come.
(12-18 ft tall)
Plum
Prolific and self-fertile, this plum is small (10-12 ft tall) and easy to grow. The red fleshed fruit is ready to harvest in July.
Raspberry
Delicious and rewarding, these easy plants will produce numerous brilliant red fruits year after year.
Nova: Thornless, fruits early in the season, and hardy. (3-4 ft tall)
Apple
Granny Smith
While apples need some care such as yearly pruning and fertilizing, a well cared for tree will produce abundant fruit for years to come. Plant at least two trees to ensure a bountiful harvest as apple trees need a companion tree in order to cross pollinate.
Granny Smith: Matures late October to early November. Yellow-green apple of excellent quality. Good all-purpose variety. (12-20 ft tall)
Blackberry
Prime Ark Freedom
Easy to grow and free of thorns, blackberries can make a fun and delicious addition to your garden.
Prime Ark Freedom: Upright canes can produce two crops of large berries a year. Early ripening and self-pollinating. (4-5 ft tall)
Blueberry
Blueberries are relatively pest free and require little care once established. Plant at least two bushes, each of a different variety, for cross-pollination.
Powderblue: Medium to large sized berries, mid-Late season ripening (6-10 ft tall)
Fig
Figs are very tasty and can be eaten fresh, preserved, or used for baking and making desserts. Figs will do well in most parts of Georgia. Figs are self-fertile and do not need a second plant in order to produce fruit.
Celeste: Small, brow to purple fruit that is fantastic for both eating fresh and preserving (7-10 ft tall)
Peach
Ready to harvest at the end of May, this delicious peach can provide countless fruits for many years to come. A fantastic yellow clingstone peach. Plant two or more to ensure cross pollination and fruit development.
(15-20 ft tall)
Pomegranate
A unique and adaptable plant that can easily be grown both in the garden and in a patio container. This stunning fruit will have all that see it captivated. Tolerant and hardy, these pomegranates are self fertile. (5-10 ft tall)
Asian Pear
Chojuro
This novel tree produces delicious, crisp and juicy pears in late summer to early fall. The fruit store very well, lasting up to 5 months. Plant at least two of this heavy producing tree to ensure cross pollination. (10-12 ft tall)
Blueberry
Brightwell
Blueberries are relatively pest free and require little care once established. Plant at least two bushes, each of a different variety, for cross-pollination.
Brightwell: Medium berry size, prolific producer, mid season ripening (8-10 ft tall)
Blueberry
Blueberries are relatively pest free and require little care once established. Plant at least two bushes, each of a different variety, for cross-pollination.
Tifblue: Larger berry size, Late season ripening (6-8 ft tall)
Fig
Figs are very tasty and can be eaten fresh, preserved, or used for baking and making desserts. Figs will do well in most parts of Georgia. Figs are self-fertile and do not need a second plant in order to produce fruit.
Chicago Hardy: Medium size, purple-brown fruits that are great for both eating fresh and preserving (10-15 ft tall)
Pear
A unique and delicious small to medium size fruit that grows on a relatively small tree (10-15 ft tall). The fruit has a sweet and slightly tangy flavor and can be used for everything from cooking to preserves to eating fresh. Plant two to ensure cross pollination.
Raspberry
Delicious and rewarding, these easy plants will produce numerous brilliant red fruits year after year.
Caroline: Fruits in the fall, very productive. (3-4 ft tall)
Perrenials
Azalea
Delaware Valley
A dazzling display of lightly fragranced white bell-shaped flowers and dark green, evergreen leaves. Bouquets of flowers are formed in tight clusters at the ends of each branch. The striking, scented flowers attract butterflies to your garden. A bush that can reach 3-4 ft. high and wide.
Sunlight needed: Full to Partial Shade
Bloom Season: Spring
Flowers: White
Azalea
Tallula Sunrise
Growing 6 to 8 feet in height and 5 to 6 feet wide, the Tallulah Sunrise Native Azalea is ideal for use in woodland gardens and shady flowering shrub borders. The flowers produce a honeysuckle-like fragrance. Very lustrous dark green leaves turn orange-bronze in fall.
Sunlight needed: Shade or Partial Shade
Bloom Season: Early Spring
Flowers: Bright Orange
Camellia
Single, brilliant light pink blooms centered with bright yellow stamens make an elegant statement in the winter garden. The glossy, dark green foliage creates a handsome natural hedge or foundation shrub. Medium in size (8-10 ft ) and a mid-season evergreen bloomer.
Sunlight needed: Partial Shade
Bloom Season: Fall to Winter
Flowers: Light pink
Rose of Sharon
This plant blooms a striking deep blue color that is especially prominent when the plant is in bud. This long-blooming, reliable, easy care plant will bloom all summer long. These stellar shrubs grow 8-12 feet tall and 6-8 feet wide.
Sunlight needed: Full Sun
Bloom Season: Summer to Fall
Flowers: Blue, purple
Knockout Rose
Smothered in stunning lightly-scented orange flowers from late spring to mid fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has attractive dark green deciduous foliage which emerges coppery-bronze in spring. This stunning shrub grows 5 ft tall and wide.
Sunlight needed: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Bloom Season: Spring to Fall
Flowers: Orange, coral
Azalea
Girard Rose
A stunning low growing shrub with large, showy, and fragrant flowers. They perform well in shaded gardens. The fragrant flowers can attract bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and other beneficial insects. A small evergreen bush that gets 2 ft tall and wide.
Sunlight needed: Full to Partial Shade
Bloom Season: Spring
Flowers: Pink
Sweetshrub
Aphrodite
With deep red, magnolia like flowers, this plant is a true show stopper. A large shrub, growing 5-8 feet tall and 5-6 feet wide. During summer they are a lustrous, dark green, and then turn golden-yellow before falling in autumn.
Sunlight needs: Sun to Partial Shade
Bloom Season: Late Spring to early Summer
Flowers: Dark red
Flowering Quince
A deciduous shrub with abundant clusters of light orange to orange flowers. This quince grows to 4-5 feet tall and wide.
Sunlight needed: Full to Partial Shade
Bloom Season: Spring
Flowers: Light orange to coral
Hydrangea
Bigleaf hydrangea, showy pink to blue blooms (depending on soil ph in your garden). Compact rounded habit, reliable bloomer. Mature size is 3-6 feet tall and 6-10 feet wide.
Sunlight needed: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Bloom Season: Late Summer to Early Fall
Flowers: Pink to Blue
Knockout Rose
A compact shrub rose that typically grows to 3-4’ tall and as wide. It features single to semi-double, lightly fragrant, blushing pink roses to 3.5” diameter that bloom in clusters (occasionally solitary) from May to frost. Flowers fade to shell pink as they age. Flowers are followed by orange-red hips.
Sunlight needed: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Bloom Season: Spring to Fall
Flowers: Light pink
Azalea
Hershey Red
A relatively small azalea that explodes in vibrant red blooms each spring. Showy, single flowers appear all over the shrub. The red blooms amass on a low-growing plant with small green leaves. The semi-evergreen shrub keeps its leaves in winter and drops the old leaves just as it forms new ones.
Sunlight needed: Partial Shade, Partial Shade
Bloom Season: Early Spring
Flowers: Red
Camellia
Greensboro Red
Compact shrub with an upright growing habit and smooth grey branches that hold dark green, oval-shaped, glossy foliage. Foliage is present all year with beautiful flowers showing from late winter to early spring.
Sunlight needed: Partial Shade
Bloom season: Late Winter to early Spring
Flowers: Red
Fern
Young stems are vibrant yellow-orange which turn a vibrant light green as they age. This deciduous fern should get 18-24 inches tall.
Sunlight needed: Full Shade to Partial Shade
Leaves: Green, yellow-orange
Crape Myrtle
A small flowering tree, growing 10-15 ft tall and wide, has long-lasting dark purple flowers that appear in the late summer. With bronze-colored new leaves in the spring, its brilliant orange-red fall color, coupled with its interesting smooth bark makes for great year-round interest.
Sunlight needed: Full Sun
Bloom Season: Late Summer
Flowers: Purple
Chaste Tree
A fantastic small tree that blooms in dense terminal clusters of fragrant violet flowers over an extended season. Shrubby habit develops into a small tree over time with a wide open canopy and aromatic gray-green foliage. Thrives in heat. Gets to 10-15 feet tall and wide and grows quickly.
Sunlight needed: Full Sun
Bloom Season: Spring to Fall
Flowers: Purple