Mission Garden Plant Sale

Saturday September 25, 8am-noon, FREE with $5 suggested donation at the Gate.

Fall is a great time of year to plant fruit trees, native plants, and a variety of vegetables that grow well in our climate in the winter/spring. Come get advice about fall planting and pick up some great plants!

Plants that will be available include:

Fruit trees: Heritage fig trees, white pomegranate, apricot, peach, quince, Mexican sweet lime and mission grape.

Vegetable and herb starts include borage, dill, cilantro, fennel, celery, arugula, mizuna, kale, spinach, collards, romaine lettuce, salad bowl lettuce, acelgas (chard), cabbage, gai lan, beets, cardoon, artichoke, fava beans, peas, and I'itoi's onions.

Native landscape and pollinator plants include passionvine, dicliptera, fragrant beebrush, physicnut, velvet mesquite, screwbean mesquite, desert willow, elderberry, and netleaf hackberry.

Come to the garden to enjoy our beautiful, historic and educational setting, and go home with some plants or trees that are a part of that history, and which grow well in our area. There is a $5 suggested donation at the entrance to the garden.

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Want to learn more about the Heritage Fruit at Mission Garden?

In this short video, Friends of Tucson’s Birthplace Board Member Fe Tom provides us with some cultural context and benefits of Loquat fruit trees.