With indoor and outdoor gardens as well as special exhibits and events, the Atlanta Botanical Garden offers endless opportunities for exploration and discovery. Dining and shopping is available in the Blossom Garden Café and Snack Shop the Garden Gift Shop.
Indoor Collections
Fuqua Orchid Center
Within the Botanical Garden’s Fuqua Orchid Center is the High Elevation House, featuring plants found in the Cloud Forest of the Andes Mountains in South America. The focal point of the High Elevation House is a wonderful waterfall constructed of Georgia granite boulders and dotted with flowered Andean orchids such as Odontoglossum, Masdevallia and Phragmipedium. Neotropical blueberries bearing bright clusters of tubular flowers and exotic bromeliads are also featured in the High Elevation House. Additionally, the Fuqua Orchid Center houses the Orchid Display House, with all the elements of a formal garden: geometrically shaped beds, a symmetrical design and architectural accents.
Fuqua Conservatory
The Fuqua Conservatory is teeming with plant and animal life. Enter through the Lobby and watch poison arrow frogs in a naturalistic setting. In the Tropical Rotunda, you will come across hundreds of species from the equatorial regions of the world. The Atlanta Botanical Garden’s Desert House features succulent collections native to Madagascar and Southern Africa. See, touch and smell some the plants that are important in our daily lives in the Orangerie, home to a wide range of tropical and sub-tropical species of high economic and medicinal importance. Be sure to look out for the many animals that live in Fuqua Conservatory, from the South American yellow saffron finches flying about the canopy to the tropical wood turtles and tortoises openly bask in their terrestrial habitat.
Outdoor Collections
Edible Garden
The Atlanta Botanical Garden’s Edible Garden, is not your ordinary backyard vegetable patch, but a feast for the eyes. The garden demonstrates that fruits and vegetables can make beautiful landscape plants.
Rose Garden
The Rose Garden features a representative collection of old-fashioned and landscape roses, interplanted with perennials. When the Rose Garden is in bloom in May and June, the stunning color and fragrance of the roses, combined with perennials make the Rose Garden a popular spot among visitors.
Hydrangea
The Atlanta Botanical Garden boasts one of the finest Hydrangea Collections in the Southeast. The garden is comprised of over 160 cultivars of Hydrangea macrophylla, Hydrangea serrata cultivars and Native Hydrangea. When in bloom during late May and throughout June, the garden is filled with soft shades of pink, blue and white.
Water Plants
Water plants can be found in various ponds throughout the Botanical Garden and bloom from May until the first few frosts of the year. Among the water plants are hardy and non-hardy water lilies, water lotus and other aquatic plants. In the summer, the huge 5-foot wide pads of the Victoria water lily come to life.
Japanese Garden
The Japanese Garden is designed on a small-scale and is a hybrid of Asian styles, offering inspiration for urban gardeners. Its sheltered tea house and small waterfall and pond provide a quiet spot to contemplate the beauty of the garden. Bermed areas of the garden are filled with bamboo, dwarf Japanese maples and dwarf conifers.
Dining at the Blossom Garden Café and Snack Shop
Enjoy a quick bite or light lunch at the Blossom Garden Café and Snack Shop. The Café’s menu features salads, sandwiches and snacks as well as a variety of beverages.
Shop the Garden Gift Shop
Shop the Garden Gift Shop. Gifts and keepsakes unique to the Atlanta Botanical Garden including apparel and accessories, toys, books, and arts and crafts made by local artists and artisan are available to purchase.
- The Atlanta Botanical Garden is ADA compliant. Wheelchairs are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Do not forget your camera. Photography for personal, non-commercial use is permitted throughout the Atlanta Botanical Garden.