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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."
Atlanta Botanical Garden: Atlanta: Waddell Barnes Botanical Gardens: Middle Georgia State University: Macon: Callaway Gardens: Pine Mountain: Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens: University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service: Savannah: Coastal Plain Research Arboretum: Tifton: Fernbank Science Center: Atlanta: Augusta Botanical Gardens ...
The American Public Gardens Association, formerly the American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta, is an association of public-garden institutions and professionals primarily in the United States and Canada. Over the last six decades, the American Public Gardens Association has emerged as the premiere association for public gardens ...
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]
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 ...
Pages in category "Botanical gardens in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
Staff members from Zoo Atlanta and the Atlanta Botanical Garden have established captive assurance colonies of Panamanian frogs threatened by the spread of chytrid fungus. (Chytrid is the cause of the infectious amphibian disease chytridiomycosis.) [ 20 ]