Troll Stroll Saturdays

Saturdays, April 12-May 17, 2025 10 am-2 pm

Join us each Saturday this spring for a Troll Stroll! Explore the Garden on foot or on our Troll Tram as spring comes to life in the Mid-South. Each week we’ll feature one of our friendly Troll visitors with an accompanying activity for children, plus enjoy food trucks and a cash bar to make the day of it at the Garden.

No registration is necessary. Free with Garden admission. Canceled if raining. 

Free with Garden admission. Canceled if raining.This program is inspired by Thomas Dambo’s TROLLS: Save the Humans Presented by International Paper. Learn more about this larger-than-life seasonal exhibition at membg.org/trolls.

Spring 2025 Schedule:

April 12: Rosa Sunfinger – Presented by Janet Misner

Children’s Activity: Meet Rosa Sunfinger and learn about the importance of flowers and plants in the environment and plant Seeds of Peace to take home.
Food Trucks: Cookies & Cream
Other: Spring Ephemerals Walk with Anna Vo at 10 am

Join us on a guided tour through the 4-acre Woodland to discover, identify, and appreciate nature’s ephemeral treasures at their peak! Experience the fleeting beauty of spring ephemerals, the first woodland wildflowers to bloom each spring. These delicate plants take advantage of the sunlight that reaches the forest floor before the canopy fills in, thriving for only a short period before they die back to their underground parts. Please dress comfortably for walking and appropriate for the weather. Children 10 years old and above are welcome but must be accompanied by an adult.

April 19: Sofus Lotus – Presented by Amanda and Nick Goetze
Children’s Activity: Meet Sofus Lotus and listen to the sounds of nature with Sofus Lotus and make a nature journal to take home.
Food Trucks: Hot-n-Heavy Dogs, Mister Softee

April 26: Ibbi Pip – Presented by FedEx
Children’s Activity: Join Ippi Pip and look for her bird friends through our take home binoculars that you can decorate and take home.
Food Trucks: Snowbirds Frozen Treats, Mexico in Memphis

May 3: Basse Buller – Presented by Thompson Machinery
Children’s Activity: Create a nature painting with Basse Buller.
Food Trucks: Rockin Rodney’s, Cookies & Cream, K&L

May 10: Kamma Can – Presented by HD Pallet
Children’s Activity: Join Kamma Can and make a recycled bracelet.
Food Trucks: Rockin Rodney’s, Hot-n-Heavy Dogs

May 17: Ronja Redeye – Presented by Speer Charitable Trust
Children’s Activity: Learn the Troll-phabet with Ronja Redeye and write your name in Troll.
Food Trucks: Rockin Rodney’s, Mister Softee