Science and Horticulture

Atlanta History Center is thrilled to highlight Goizueta Gardens and associated offerings May 7–16, 2021, in support of Go Public Gardens.

Explore Seeking Eden which bring awareness and appreciation to Georgia’s rich garden history.

Explore the new Entrance Gardens designed by Atlanta History Center’s Vice President of Living Collections, Sarah Roberts.

Take a closer look at the remarkable gems of the Cherokee Garden Library.

Learn about the farm’s history with a particular emphasis on the enslaved people’s garden, the kitchen garden, and the crops at Smith Farm.

Explore a rich tapestry of flowering and foliage plants selected for color, fragrance, texture, and an English garden aesthetic.

The Mary Howard Gilbert Memorial Quarry Garden brims with Georgia’s native flora due to the careful consideration of Mr. Cline.

Founded by the Cherokee Garden Club of Atlanta in 1975, the Cherokee Garden Library is named for the state floral emblem of Georgia, the Cherokee rose (Rosa laevigata) and is one of the special collection libraries of the Kenan Research Center.

This tree that was so much a part of the American landscape for an estimated 40 million years, was made functionally extinct in forty.

Building housing the plant and botany exhibitions at the 1895 Cotton States Exposition in Piedmont Park.

A woman poses with a microscope used for determining tuberculosis test results at a health fair sponsored by the Atlanta Lung Association.

A husband and wife team were instrumental at a critical time in the roots of Georgia’s environmental struggles and inspired many to continue to protect Georgia’s valuable wilderness.

The National Park Service recognizes Atlanta as the most heavily forested urban area in the nation.

Through photographs, postcards, landscape plans, and manuscripts, Seeking Eden highlights the importance of historic gardens in Georgia.