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Plan a beautiful event or meeting surrounded by lush gardens and impress your guests with a memorable setting for any occasion.

Day Hall
Rose Garden
Edible Garden Outdoor Kitchen
Sourwood Terrace & Canopy Walk
Cascades Garden
Mershon Hall
Hardin Visitor Center and Conference Room
Trustees Garden
Robinson Gazebo
Alston Overlook
Fragrance Garden
Japanese Garden
GardenHouse Workshop & Classroom
Georgia Pacific Classroom
Fuqua Orchid Center

Day Hall

Day Hall has recently undergone a beautiful transformation with a completely updated décor. The largest event space in the Garden, it is available for diverse needs from conferences and lectures to parties and receptions. This airy hall features elegant soft blue walls, gorgeous cork flooring, contemporary organic lighting and floor-to-ceiling windows. West doors open into the Mediterranean influenced Cox Courtyard while east doors lead onto Lanier Terrace, just steps away from the Levy Parterre.

Capacity

300 seated, 500 standing

Rose Garden

Fragrance, color and memories of days past enhance the Rose Garden. The favorite flower of many, roses included in this Rose Garden are pest and disease-resistant varieties particularly suited to the Atlanta area, with its heavy clay soil and high humidity. Heirloom varieties include favorites such as Souvenir de la Malmaison and Rêve d'Or. Don't miss the rose arbor with 21 varieties of climbing roses growing on chain swags framed against the Midtown skyline.

Capacity

200 seated

Edible Garden Outdoor Kitchen

Host a fresh experience surrounded by delicious vegetables, fruits and herbs. The Outdoor Kitchen provides a warm and inviting atmosphere for any event.

Capacity & Availability

70 seated dinner style, 100 standing
January - March, 6 p.m. - midnight
April - October, 8 p.m. - midnight

Sourwood Terrace & Canopy Walk

Plan an event in the treetops on the spectacular 600 foot long Canopy Walk. Sourwood Terrace serves as the woodland landing for seated dinners or cocktail parties. Guests may stroll the Canopy Walk for wonderful views of Storza Woods.

Capacity & Availability

40 seated dinner style, 100 standing
January - March, 6 p.m. - midnight
April - October, 8 p.m. - midnight

Cascades Garden

Let lush tropical plants and the tranquil sounds of falling water be the backdrop for your event. Guests can mingle alongside the water and relax under a gorgeous arbor.

Capacity & Availability

50 seated dinner style, 100 standing
January - March, 6 p.m. - midnight
April - October, 8 p.m. - midnight

Mershon Hall

Mershon Hall is a beautiful, classical building with elegant lighting, bamboo floors, modern craftsman interior design and double Palladian doors leading outside. The main room is adjacent to a catering kitchen. An elevator or stairs takes guests to marble restrooms. West doors lead onto the award-winning Levy Parterre, winner of the Urban Design Commission 2003 Award for Landscape Design, filled with colorful flowers 12 months a year.

Capacity

70 seated dinner style, 90 standing

Hardin Visitor Center and Conference Room

The Allen and Gail Hardin Visitor Center provides a beautiful new entry experience for visitors, just steps away from the SAGE Parking Facility. This dramatic transparent structure filled with natural daylight is a lovely starting point for a visit. The well-appointed Conference Rooms provides an impressive setting for a small group meeting.

Capacity

Visitor Center - 100 seated dinner, 300 standing
Conference Room - 8 seated

Trustees Garden

Accessible via the Flower Bridge, the Trustees Garden is a walled secret garden defined by four classical pavilions at the corners, with formal dwarf boxwood edging to the flower beds. A beautiful balustrade winds up to the entrance, providing a gorgeous vista over the Cascades Garden.

Capacity

90 seated

Robinson Gazebo

Robinson Gazebo is a covered outdoor space off the Fuqua Orchid Center. Enjoy a view of the Aquatic Plant Pond as well as spectacular views of Piedmont Park and the Atlanta skyline.

Capacity

50 seated, 75 standing

Alston Overlook

Alston Overlook delivers a breathtaking panorama. Across the colorful beds of the Levy Parterre, the Fuqua Conservatory is framed by the Midtown skyline. Further in the distance, the Downtown skyline hovers above the treetops of Piedmont Park.

Capacity

60 seated, 75 standing

Fragrance Garden

The Fragrance Garden is a quiet garden tucked between the Fuqua Conservatory and Orchid Center. Fragrant herbs, brilliant flowers and a reflecting pond create an ideal gathering space for small ceremonies.

Capacity

20 standing ceremony only

Japanese Garden

Small but exquisite, the Japanese Garden is one of the oldest areas of the Garden, begun in Piedmont Park in the 1960s before the Atlanta Botanical Garden was chartered. Irises and azaleas bloom in spring, maples change color and drop their leaves in the fall, but most plants in the Japanese Garden are evergreen; color is used sparingly to highlight seasonal change since reverence of nature is the guiding philosophy in a Japanese garden.

Capacity

10 standing ceremony only

GardenHouse Workshop & Classroom

GardenHouse contains two spaces ideal for meetings, classes, or lectures. Both the Workshop and Classroom are accessed via stairs or elevator off the Mediterranean inspired Cox Courtyard. The Workshop is ideal for medium to large meetings and the Classroom is perfect for a small group.

Capacity

GardenHouse Workshop - 50 seated classroom style
GardenHouse Classroom - 16 seated classroom style

Georgia Pacific Classroom

The Georgia-Pacific Classroom is filled with natural light. The space is flanked by the Garden Art Gallery and adjacent to the Fuqua Orchid Center. A nearby warming kitchen makes the room perfect for working lunches or cocktail parties. (925 sq. ft.)

Capacity

50 seated classroom style
60 seated dinner style
80 standing

Fuqua Orchid Center

The Fuqua Orchid Center provides an exciting opportunity for visitors to see the Atlanta Botanical Garden's distinguished orchid collection. Unique in the United States, its mission is the display and conservation of orchids and the education of visitors about orchids.

The glasshouse complex showcases the Atlanta Botanical Garden's existing tropical orchid collection and provides specialized facilities for a new collection of montane orchids that grow at high elevations.

Availability and capacity subject to seasonal displays and exhibitions.

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