Join us outside May 10–19 for Go Public Gardens, an initiative of the American Public Gardens Association.
Go Public Gardens is an evergreen American Public Gardens Association initiative that encourages the public to visit, value, and volunteer at public gardens in their communities. Go Public Gardens brings national attention to this campaign for one week during the summer; and Atlanta History Center is thrilled to highlight our Goizueta Gardens and associated offerings in support of this effort.
Our gardens include both paved and unpaved paths, and admission is included with a general Atlanta History Center ticket. Receive $5 off with code 5OFFGARDENS from May 10–19.
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On May 16 at 1pm, you are invited to attend a special behind-the-scenes tour throughout our gardens led by Sarah Carter, Vice President of Goizueta Gardens and Living Collections. The tour is included in cost of admission, but registration is required.
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Goizueta Gardens is a 33-acre landscape encompassing nine distinct gardens—including preserved woodland, diverse plant collections, and heritage-breed animals.
Our Gardens
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Honoring the life of Goizueta Gardens namesake Olga “Olguita” C. de Goizueta, this ornamental garden is designed for the enjoyment of flowering and fragrant plants—a place of beauty for quiet reflection amid the hectic pace of city life.
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This native garden contains herbal medicinal plants, the mysterious lost camellia, quiet waterfalls, and what is Georgia’s largest native plant collection in one place—25 feet down.
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Explore a variety of heirloom plants, flowers, and animal breeds at Smith Farm.
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Gardens of the spectacular Inman estate was designed by Philip Trammell Shutze from 1926-1928, the latter years of the Country Place Era.
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An abundance of rhododendrons, small flowering trees, and eclectic ground covers.
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East meets West in the plant world at the Sims Asian Garden.
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Meander robust forest surrounding the Swan Woods Trail and consider yourself free to explore around the cabin.
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Within steps of the Atlanta History Center Museum, reflect on the men and women who have served—and continue to serve—the United States of America.
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The Entrance Gardens and 60-foot Tree Table are the newest additions to our campus and span eight acres, welcoming guests all year long.
Featured Offerings
Garden and social historian Advolly Richmond (of Gardener’s World) unravels the surprising histories of 60 flowers that shape our gardens.
Purchase TicketsJoin us every Saturday for the unique experience of seeing one of our heritage breed sheep or goats on their weekly stroll across campus. Our Manager of Animal Collections can usually be found with a sheep by his side at the tree table in the Entrance Gardens between 2–2:30pm weather permitting.
Cherokee Garden Library collects and preserves works in gardening, landscape design, garden history, horticulture, floral design, botanical art, plant ecology, natural landscapes, and cultural landscapes, including historic sites, designed landscapes, vernacular landscapes, and ethnographic landscapes.
Explore nowThrough photographs, postcards, landscape plans, and manuscripts, this onsite exhibition highlights the importance of historic gardens in Georgia’s past as well as their value and meaning within the state’s 21st-century communities.
Learn moreRelated Stories
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In 1971, Betty Byrom and John Sanford’s interracial love faced Georgia’s outdated anti-miscegenation laws — despite their unconstitutionality. Refusing to back down, they enlisted the U.S. Justice Department, leading to legal intervention that helped force Georgia’s compliance with federal law. Their story reshaped state policy and redefined what love and courage could achieve.
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Camellias are a remarkable flowering plant–not only for their beauty and endless flower variations–but also because they draw us into the detailed and diverse world of camellia cultivators.
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Last fall we had the unique opportunity to bolster a plant collection that performs extremely well in Atlanta, Epimedium. When Karen Perkins decided to close Garden Vision, her nursery which specialized in this unique genus, we reached out to discuss building our collection.
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Goizueta Gardens at Atlanta History Center have a substantial collection of Trillium as part of our Georgia Native Plant Collection. We have populations that occur naturally in the woods on the campus and species that have been planted as part of our living collections.
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Weighing animals is a good practice to keep abreast of their health and well-being. Turkeys have a very predictable pattern of weight gain and loss – but how do we keep track?
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Spring is in full spring here in Atlanta, and we’re covered in enough pollen to prove it! Here is a helpful checklist of tasks for what you should pay attention to, look out for, and keep up with in your own gardens as we move into the warmer summer months.
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Goizueta Gardens staff collaborated on an exciting conservation effort this past spring to relocate wild and rare orchids to our gardens for preservation.
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Weather permitting, every Saturday afternoon between 2 and 3 it’s time for sheep to stroll and goats to promenade. That’s when Brett Bannor, Manager of Animal Collections, walks animals from the Smith Farm flock around the campus, giving visitors a chance to meet and learn about our heritage breed livestock.
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Related Talks
Cherokee Garden Library of Atlanta History Center hosted the showing of a new film, Landscapes of Exclusion, produced by the Library of American Landscape History (LALH). The short documentary by Forster Films illuminates the seldom-discussed history of segregated state parks in the Jim Crow era.
Watch NowRolf Diamant is a landscape architect, adjunct associate professor of historic preservation at the University of Vermont, and former superintendent of four national parks, including Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site.
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Grateful appreciation
is extended to
The Goizueta Foundation
for their ongoing support.