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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." [1] Indoor view
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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 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.
Members of the American Public Gardens Association celebrated National Public Gardens Day beginning in 2009 with activities that varied by garden. The Atlanta Botanical Garden invited visitors to bring flowers so that they could be put into arrangements for patients and their families at Children's Hospital [2] The Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona, asked visitors to pledge to ...
The Georgia General Assembly designated the garden as The State Botanical Garden of Georgia in February 1984 in an act that allowed the garden to receive more state funding. [1] [2] An additional 19.3 acres were added to the garden property in 1990 and it totals 323 acres as of 2024. [1] [3] In 1994, the Day Chapel was completed. [1]
The Plant Collections Network (PCN) (formerly the North American Plant Collections Consortium) is a group of North American botanical gardens and arboreta that coordinates a continent-wide approach to plant germplasm preservation, and promotes excellence in plant collections management. [1]
Noel Turner, a former Hamilton Gardens board member described the condition of the gardens in 2016: "The lack of structural integrity was such that the (125' Rosebay) bridge could have collapsed at any time. Georgia Mountain Fair, TVA and Towns County were exposed to potential liabilities. The Paris Pavilion restrooms were grossly neglected.