Atlanta Botanic Gardens pics

[thez_yo]

I just dropped by the gardens yesterday - it was a bit cloudy/rainy so some aren't the best, but it was still beautiful. Enjoy!! (oh, and the sarr and vft pots are in a special back room for propagating wild plants to return back to their original habitats once they get going)

The outdoor Sarr bog...not so pretty this time a year, but they did have it labeled according to location (the 'Georgia bog' and the 'Alabama bog' etc.)

Some sculpture out front

And they had a nice train set out front of a meeting center I think.

The tropical plant buildling!

In the lobby...

In the front jungly room..

The room between the highland conservatory with neps and things and that other tropical room, and the orchid conservatory is to the right. That's a tree made out of poinsettias!

The highland house with neps & helis, lots of tillies and other pretty plants..

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[thez_yo]

The secret back room with native Sarrs being propagated for replacement back in the wild. Notice that tallllll big white leuco...

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[thez_yo]

This is that big tall leuco - my picture does it no justice.

I assume those are some sort of carnivorous bromeliads at the top of the hill with the Helis...we're back in the highland house again.

and some pretty purple flower out with that poinsettia tree again..

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[thez_yo]

this is the orchid room

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[Taliesin-DS]

Amazing pics, especially the moss, ferns, neps, orchids, heli's etc
It looks so nice and wild
I wish we had something like that near here :O
(icps place doesnt count, thats a 2hr drive and i dont even have a car )

 

[thez_yo]

cornu-cervi

ambionensis

gigantea

lowii

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[Taliesin-DS]

i want my room to look like that...

 

[thez_yo]

it's so blue...

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[Taliesin-DS]

How big is that place? ? :O
Any idea what that big striped bromeliad is ?
i think i got one like that and havent been able to id it.

 

[thez_yo]

gigantea has been in bloom before...

their TC lab

some cute atrium with hanging nep pots - raffs and truncs and maximas and stuff out here.

And back out front on my way out, some more frog

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How big is that place? ? :O
Any idea what that big striped bromeliad is ?
i think i got one like that and havent been able to id it.

Pretty huge - there's a sort of highland area that has intermediate/highland nepenthes and those helis, there's the room that has all the sarrs/vft's some dews and those two ceph pots. There's also the orchid house that has all those massive amounts of catts and phals and paphs and stuff, and those nep ampullarias and truncatas and stuff, and there's also other tropical rooms and desert areas and stuff.

Amazing pics, especially the moss, ferns, neps, orchids, heli's etc
It looks so nice and wild
I wish we had something like that near here :O
(icps place doesnt count, thats a 2hr drive and i dont even have a car )

Thanks I took pics of staghorn ferns for you too
It's actually halfway cross country for me no matter where I am, but you know if I'm already on vacation I might as well spend a day to fly down and go see it. I'm glad I went for sure.

i want my room to look like that...

I do too. I'm going to string up a hammock from the gazebos in the orchid house

 

[Devon]

 

[Cain]

Excelent pictures, Thanks for sharing.
I hope one day can visit a place like that.

 

[larry]

Cool, they have a Chihuly sculpture in the garden!

 

[Adam]

Zu, I am VERY jealous!!!!
Next time I'm in Charlotte, I guess I should go there, 4 hour drive.
Where are you vacationing anyways, Zu?

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

 

[MH1]

:O Wow... very cool! Hmmm, if I had the money, I would build one of these, and just live in the thick of it A sofa over there - a bookcase over here - a bed behind that tree fern it would be awesome

 

[aaddaam]

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

 

[amphirion]

@aaddaam: planning a little mischief?

 

[aaddaam]

@aaddaam: planning a little mischief?

As I buy my plane ticket to Atlanta.

 

[Exo]

OMG.....it's like a plant lover's Disney land!

 

[Dexenthes]

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!