Memphis Botanic Garden
— a koi pond in the middle of West Tennessee.
Not only on a wall.
Memphis Botanic Garden, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“Ninety-six acres of gardens at the edge of Audubon Park, with more than thirty specialty plantings worked through. The Japanese Garden of Tranquility is the place most regulars name first, but the rose garden in June and the ginkgo allée in November carry equal weight. The summer concert series fills the Radians Amphitheater into the dark.
The place, in three passes.
The Memphis Botanic Garden occupies ninety-six acres at 750 Cherry Road in East Memphis, just inside the Audubon Park neighborhood. Founded in 1953 by the Memphis Park Commission, the gardens now hold more than thirty specialty plantings, including the Sigmund Munster Rose Garden, the Sensory Garden, and the Cecil C. Humphreys Heritage Garden. The Japanese Garden of Tranquility, designed in 1964 and opened in 1965, was built with stones and an arched bridge gifted by Memphis's Japanese sister city of Shirakawa. The site borders the Dixon Gallery and Gardens on the south side of Park Avenue.
The garden's calendar runs from the first daffodils in late February through the chrysanthemum show in October. The Sigmund Munster Rose Garden peaks in mid-May and again in October, with more than 1,500 bushes across roughly two hundred varieties. The Live at the Garden concert series fills four Friday or Saturday nights in summer at the Radians Amphitheater, drawing crowds of about 6,000. November turns the ginkgo allée a clean cadmium yellow that drops nearly all at once, often within a single forty-eight-hour window after the first hard frost arrives.
The garden is open seven days a week, generally 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in summer and 9 to 4:30 in winter, with admission free to members and a modest fee for non-members. Parking sits along Cherry Road with overflow lots used during the Live at the Garden series. The Big Backyard, a three-acre children's section opened in 2009, draws families on weekends. The gift shop and seasonal café operate from the Hardin Hall visitor center, with last entry usually an hour before closing.
