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The Atlanta Botanical Garden is a 30 acres (12 ha) botanical garden located adjacent to Piedmont Park in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Incorporated in 1976, the garden's mission is to "develop and maintain plant collections for the purposes of display, education, conservation, research and enjoyment."
This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Georgia is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Georgia [1] [2] [3] Name Image
The 343 Atlanta parks range in scope from formal gardens at Atlanta Botanical Garden to pocket parks in neighborhoods. Additionally, there are six miles of paved pedestrian and bike trails in the Atlanta Beltline as well as the PATH Foundation network of 150 miles of off road trails.
Also constructed for the fair were the Tropical gardens, now known as the Atlanta Botanical Garden, and Lake Clara Meer which was originally a pond but was expanded to 11.5 acres (47,000 m 2) for the event. [16] Today, the stone balustrades scattered around the park are the only part of the enormous main building. [16]
The botanical garden was first proposed in 1967 and construction began on the site three years later, in 1970. It was originally called the University of Georgia Botanical Garden. [1] In 1971, then Georgia governor Jimmy Carter with his wife Rosalynn Carter toured the garden's trails and later allocate $13,000 in state funds for a master plan ...
Gibbs Gardens is a 376 acres (152 ha) privately owned botanical garden located in Cherokee County, Georgia. It is open to the public except in the winter.