Plan to spend as little as an hour or as much as a day exploring the
Atlanta Botanical Garden. Each change of season brings new colors,
fragrances and sounds for you to experience and enjoy.
Exploring a botanical garden is not the same as strolling through a
public park. Here you will find collectios of plants - roses, herbs,
summer bulbs, ornamental grasses, conifers, and much more. New
cultivars, unusual plant groupings, color and texture mixtures are all
used to stimulate the imagination and spark ideas that can come to life
in your own garden.
Plan to spend as little as an hour or as much as a day exploring the
Atlanta Botanical Garden. Each change of season brings new colors,
fragrances and sounds for you to experience and enjoy.
A highlight of any trip to the Garden is a tour through the Dorothy Chapman Fuqua Conservatory. Inside are collections of exotic tropical plants such as palms, cycads, ferns, orhids and epiphytes (air plants).
The adjacent Desert House showcases Old World succulents including botanical rarities like lithops (living stones) and welwitschia, a bizarre plant with no living relatives. Children will enjoy touching and learning about plants that eat insects (carnivores) and those that shelter them (ant plants).
The Atlanta Botanical Garden is yours to explore. Plus, there are classes, social events, plant sales, festivals, demonstrations and plant shows. There's even a 24-hour "Plant Hotline" that anyone may call for free with a plant question (888-GROW), a research library and a museum shop offering live plants and imaginative gifts with a "botanical flair."
All of this is waiting for you at the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
HOURS: The Garden is open Tuesday to Sunday 9 AM to 7 PM April - October, 9 AM to 6 PM November to March. The Conservatory and Museum Shop open at 10 AM. Closed Mondays and Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day.
ADMISSION: $6 for adults, $5 for seniors, $3 for students and free for members and children under 6.
DIRECTIONS: From downtown, take I-20 east to the Piedmont exit. Turn north on Piedmont. The Garden is located in the northwest corner of Piedmont Park on the right past 14th St.