Atlanta Botanic Gardens pics

[Grey Moss]

Awesome, I wish the gardens around here looked like that.

 

[lizasaur]

Plant lovers Disney World...I like that.
I looked at it like dis:



INEEDTOGOTHERE.

Great pics Zu! Thanks for sharing.
Any chance you or anyone know what this is:

So pretty<3

 

[ellisonk001]

Great pictures; thanks for sharing these with us!!

 

[thez_yo]

Also, did they have a gift shop with Neps, Sarrs, Cephs, Etc.?

Actually, all they had was some crappy looking vft's and some sensitive plant seeds with starter kits...I was very disappointed They did have a few orchids for sale though (couple phals, a paph) but I was hoping for a better variety. I was hoping it would be like the botanic buildling in Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Michigan that has all of like 2-3 neps on display in the gardens, but is pretty huge and very nice to wander though and out front has a gigantic sale table with tillies and vft's and sundews and sarrs and other non-cp foliage plants.

That is wild! Awesome place. I would love to go there. There's so many orchids!

What's even more amazing is that you had the patience/time to upload all those pictures!

It was heaven. The orchid conservatory (I think it's the Fuqua Conservatory, after a lady that was in a painting wearing an almost blasphemous amount of pearls) when entered has the most heavenly scent that smells like the most lovely perfume you could imagine

And indeed...it was long, but I know you guys always want pics from my fieldtrips

Plant lovers Disney World...I like that.
I looked at it like dis:



INEEDTOGOTHERE.

Great pics Zu! Thanks for sharing.
Any chance you or anyone know what this is:

So pretty<3

Thanks! I think it's alata actually. I love that pitcher shape, from that kind of alata and mindanaoensis has it too...copelandii too

Great pictures; thanks for sharing these with us!!

Thanks!! My pleasure - so that if you guys should happen to be in the area, you'll know that it's worth the trip to drop by! Actually, just now I figured out the Aquarium in 'lanta is amazing and one of the best, so maybe next time I'll have to figure in more time to go there. Everyone says the Baltimore aquarium is awesome too with a greenhouse on top. So many aquariums/botanic gardens, so little time O-:

 

[Adam]

Aww
Maybe they would have a better selection in the summer?
I remember when our Local Botanical gardens had a hanging basket full of brown-pitchered Alatas, gorgeous. There were at least 500 leaves in these baskets, but it was too expensive.
Yeah, the aquarium's nice too.
I really want to go to Atlanta. Maybe next year when we go to Charlotte, since it's only 4 hours away.

 

[SDCPs]

Awesome place. I saw every single pic!

 

[rapidan]

Awesome photos, must have been a great trip!

 

[eou812]

Yah i live in Atlanta, Ga and it is only a hour drive there for me no need to buy a PLANE TICKET! Also i bet in the spring they will have more stuff in the gift shop.

 

[vraev]

Amazing pics TheZ. ABG has probably the best neps that I have seen in pics of any botanical garden. They actually even grow the trickier species like rajah, villosa and not just teh garden store variety miranda that you can see in Canada's botanical gardens.

 

[quogue]

Awesome, I wish the gardens around here looked like that.

Not nearly as good but there are some nice Neps at Plainview Planting Fields Arberetum.

And though the CP collection is so very sad, the rest of NYBG in the Bronx is incredible!

Brooklyn BG is pretty cool too and supposedly there is a decent outdoor bog garden in the Summer.

But yeah, not nearly as nice for CP's as Atlanta BG...

 

[Adam]

I am going to Atlanta for a single day in July, money permitting. I really can't wait to see the plants!

 

[Capensis]

Atlanta Botanical Gardens, cool place.

I wish to visit it again when it's actually summer and not winter.

And lucky you, I was able able to go into the secret backroom where all the Sarracenias and VFTs were. Unless the door was closed and I was able to enter it if I wanted to. Oops.

 

[Pyro]

Great pics Thez-yo.

I miss my second home

I wonder if they ever get plants stolen from them. Beautiful pics.

@aaddaam: planning a little mischief?

Yes, they have in the past, though the cameras in place now generally deter that from happening any more. Plus, people there (and not just employees/volunteers but patrons as well) tend to be pretty quick to jump on people who do that kind of thing. I saw a number of people get detained/busted by patrons. And one time, Ron Gagliardo and I were "busted" when he was trimming a spike off of a Nep for me so I could use the pollen

And lucky you, I was able able to go into the secret backroom where all the Sarracenias and VFTs were. Unless the door was closed and I was able to enter it if I wanted to. Oops.

The door to the conservation greenhouse is locked. You either need to know someone there or be escorted to gain entry.