Georgia
Gardens
Atlanta Botanical
Garden: 1345 Piedmont Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30309
(404)876-5859.
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This remarkable Garden
showcases 15 acres of cultivated plants environmentally suited
to the southeastern United States. The exhibits are organized
into three collections: the Display Garden Collections
(an herb garden, vegetable garden/orchard, water gardens,
ornamental grasses/turf plots, perennial borders, fragrance
garden, vine arbor, southern bulb collection, rock garden,
drought-tolerant hillside, winter garden, hardy cacti and
succulents, iris garden, hardy palms, southern conifer
collection, carnivorous plant bog (watch your step!), Japanese
garden, a coastal plain garden and a children's garden),
The Upper Woodlands Collections (wildflower garden,
backyard wildlife habitat, fern glade, and camellia
collection), and the Storza Woods (being restored to a
Piedmont hardwood forest). The Fuqua Conservatory contains
over 2,000 orchids.
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Atlanta History
Center: 130 West Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, GA 30305-1366
(404)814-4000.
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The Museum features a
number of gardens: the Mary Howard Gilbert Memorial Quarry
Garden (trees, plants, and shrubs that predate European
settlement and are indigenous to Georgia's piedmont and
coastal plain regions), the Cherry Sims Asian American Garden
(Asian and American plants in a contemporary landscape
design), the Frank A. Smith Memorial Rhododendron Garden
(showcasing a new gardening style developed in Atlanta to
better address the topography and needs of the city's urban
forest), the Swan House (terraced front lawn and boxwood
garden), the Tullie Farm (plants used in the 1840s for
cooking, medicine, cosmetics and dye), and Swan Woods Trail
(through 10 acres of mature forests of oak, hickory, and pine
and an advanced secondary growth of pines with an understory
of shrubs and hardwoods).
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Callaway
Gardens: U.S. Hwy. 27, P.O. Box 2000, Pine Mountain, GA
31822-2000
(800)225-5292.
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A remarkable 2,500 acres
of cultivated plants including the world's largest display of
hollies, more than 700 varieties of azaleas and a seemingly
endless variety of wildflowers, can be viewed from walking
trails or a scenic drive. Other attractions include the Sibley
Horticultural Center (an indoor-outdoor garden/greenhouse
complex), the Day Butterfly Center (the largest glass-enclosed
tropical butterfly conservatory in North America), Mr. Cason's
Vegetable Garden (producing more than 400 varieties of
vegetables, fruits and herbs and is the Southern filming site
of the television show The Victory Garden, and the
Callaway Brothers Azalea Bowl (40 acres showcasing 4,000
hybrid and native azaleas as well as pond cypress, sweet bay
magnolia, ground cedar, Japanese iris, oak, pine, fern,
hemlock, grancy greybeard, camellia, holly, witch hazel, maple
and dogwood).
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The
[Jimmy] Carter Center: 453 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, GA
30307 (404)331-3900.
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The Carter Center includes
a 37 acre wooded park, that contains a formal garden,
wildflower meadow, cherry orchard and waterfalls tucked
between two small lakes. Visitors can stroll through the Rose
Garden, which is home to 400 plants and 80 varieties,
including the coral Rosalynn Carter Rose, or view the serene
Japanese Garden, designed by Master Gardener Kinsaku Nakane.
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Fernbank Science
Center: 156 Heaton Park Drive, NE, Atlanta, GA 30307
(404)378-4311.
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This educational center
includes Fernbank Forest (a 65-acre tract of relatively
undisturbed mature mixed hardwood forest with labeled plants
open for self-guided tours), two Victorian greenhouses (at
1256 Briarcliff Road) featuring tropical and succulent plants,
and the Robert L. Staton Rose Garden (at 767 Clifton Road)
with over 1,300 roses. Don't miss the Home Composting
Demonstration Site behind the main building, which includes a
vegetable garden, a butterfly garden and different species of
ornamental plants.
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Founders
Memorial Garden: 325 South Lumpkin Street, Athens, GA
30602 (Garden Club
of Georgia) (706)227-5369).
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America's first garden
club -- the Ladies Garden Club of Athens -- is memorialized by
these lovely gardens, including a formal boxwood garden, two
courtyards, a retrace, a perennial garden, and an arboretum.
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Fred
Hamilton Rhododendron Garden: Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds, US
Highway 76 W,
Hiawassee, GA 30546.
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Overlooking Lake Chatuge,
this extensive rhododendron garden displays over 400 varieties
and 2,000 plants.
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Georgia Golf Hall of Fame’s
Botanical Gardens: One Eleventh Street, Augusta, GA
30901 (706)724-4443.
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This 17 acre home of the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame features
8 acres of display gardens including a Rose Garden (with 800
varieties of miniature roses), a Formal Garden, an Asian
Garden, a Tropical Garden, a Pergola Garden, a Coastal Garden,
a Butterfly Garden, an
Azalea Garden, a Xeriscape Garden, a
Bulb Garden, a Grass Garden, and a Cottage Garden.
Larger than life bronze statues of golf greats provide
additional interest in this unique and
lovely
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Georgia Southern
Botanical Garden: 1505 Bland Avenue, Georgia Southern University,
P.O. Box 8039, Statesboro, GA 30460-8039 (912)871-1114.
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In keeping with the
Garden's mission to promote knowledge and appreciation of the
diversity and importance of the native plants, animals, and
ecology of Georgia, particularly those of the Coastal Plain,
the Garden contains an extensive collection of plants native
to Southeast Georgia.
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The Guido
Gardens: 600 North Lewis Street, US Highway 121 North,
Metter, GA 30439.
(912)685-2222.
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Home to a television
production studio, Guido Gardens features ornamental plantings
among waterfalls, fountains, koi and goldfish ponds, a stream,
arbors and gazebos, a teahouse, and a Prayer Chapel.
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Isaiah
Davenport House Museum: 324 East State Street, Savannah, GA
31401-3411
(912)236-8097.
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A garden graces this 1815
Federal-style brick house whose preservation became the
founding of the Historic Savannah Foundation. Now a museum, it
is furnished to reflect the life of its first occupants.
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Lockerly
Arboretum: 1534 Irwinton Road off Highway 441 South,
Milledgeville, GA 31061 USA (912)452-2112.
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This 45 acre arboretum
offers, in addition to nature trails showcasing shrubs and
trees, an herb garden, iris, daylily beds, a rhododendron
garden, a vineyard, bulb and perennial gardens, a butterfly
garden and a tropical and desert greenhouse.
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Meadow
Garden: 1320 Independence Drive, Augusta, GA 30901
(706)724-4174.
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The grounds of this former
home of a signer of the Declaration of Independence are
landscaped in plants and herbs of the period.
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Meadowlark
Gardens:
2617
Newnan Road, Griffin, GA 30223 (770)228-0974.
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These beautiful southern gardens
are home to hundreds of rare trees and plants, a beautiful
collection of deciduous magnolias, and thousands of both
English and American boxwoods. Dozens of pathways and allees
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Massee
Lane Gardens: American Camellia Society, One Massee Lane, Fort
Valley, GA
31030 (912)967-2358.
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Headquarters of the
American Camellia Society, the nine-acres of Gardens display a
world renowned collection of camellias. As a lovely bonus,
visitors will discover the Abendroth Japanese Garden, the
Scheibert Rose Garden, and beautiful plantings of daffodils,
daylilies, chrysanthemums, azaleas, flowering trees, annuals
and perennials.
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Oak Hill and The Martha
Berry Museum: Veterans Memorial Highway (GA Loop 1) and
Martha
Berry Highway (U.S. 27), P.O. Box 490189, Mt. Berry, GA 30149
(706)291-1883 or
(800)220-5504.
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The museum grounds offer
elegant gardens and nature trails including the Formal Garden,
the Goldfish Garden, the Bridal Walk, the Sundial Garden, the
Sunken Garden, the Fernery Nature Trail, the Catfish Pond, and
functioning greenhouses.
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Polk County Historical Society Museum and Gardens: 311 N.
College Street, P.O. Box
203,
Cedartown, GA 30125 (770)748-0073.
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Local artifacts, films,
art festivals are housed the 1921 former Hawke's Childrens'
Library.
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State Botanical Garden
of Georgia: University of Georgia, 2450 S. Milledge Avenue, Athens, GA 30605 (706)542-1244.
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This marvelous 313 acre
collection of gardens includes an International Garden (11
gardens depicting the geographic origin of plants, the plant
hunters who sought them, and the forces that drove the plant
hunters), Shade Garden, Rose Garden, Native Flora Garden,
Annual/Perennial Garden, Dahlia Garden, Trial Garden,
Rhododendron Collection, Groundcover Collection and Native
Azalea Collection and more. Five miles of nature trails
meander through the gardens.
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Taylor-Grady
House:
634 Prince Avenue, Athens, GA 30601(706)549-8688.
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A Greek Revival mansion
built in the 1840 is a National Historic Landmark. The
thirteen elegant columns represent the 13 colonies. A recent
grant will allow more restoration of the garden. Watch for the
small holes in the kitchen walls for pigeons to come in -- and
wind up as dinner.
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University
of Georgia Greenhouse: Botany Department,
Athens, GA 30602-7271 (706)542-3732.
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22,000 square feet of
greenhouses showcase collections of ferns and fern allies,
cycads, unique gymnosperms, arid plants, tropical plants, and
carnivorous plants.
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Vines Botanical Gardens : 3500 Oak Grove Road,
Loganville, GA 30239 (770)466-7532.
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The 18,000 square foot
manor house is embellished by 25 acres of garden, including
Native Azaleas, the V-Bed Area, the Winter Garden, the
Memorial Garden, the Reflection Pool and Border, the Whimsical
Garden (exhibiting "yard art"), the Ornamental Grass Garden,
Pappy's Garden, the Woodland Walk, the Brook Garden (with
waterfalls), the Hardy Tropical Garden, the Southscape, the
Water Garden, the Arbor/Patio Cabana, the Culinary Garden, the
Asian Garden, Lakeside, the Island Garden, the White Garden
(with a Wedding Gazebo), the Mermaid Fountain, the Rose Garden
and the Rose Compass. Antique European statuary graces the
gardens.
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Waddell
Barnes Botanical Garden:
Macon
State College, 100 College Station Drive, Macon, GA
31206-5144 (912)471-2780.
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The College is in the
early stages of making the entire campus into a recognized
botanical garden. The web site tracks the progress of this
laudable project.
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Zoo
Atlanta: Grant Park, 800 Cherokee Avenue Southeast,
Atlanta, GA 30315
(404)624-5620.
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This 110 year old 40 acre
zoo offers over 1,000 animals, representing 250 species of
animals from all over the world. The Zoo believes in providing
excellent natural environments for its creatures and extends
that commitment to its visitors as well by providing beautiful
grounds, winding paths, lush plants and trees.
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