Atlanta Botanical Garden

This guide to Atlanta Botanical Garden follows horticulturist Derek Pinson, who caught a rotting smell drifting through the Fuqua Conservatory one August morning in twenty twenty-four and traced it to Aristolochia goldieana, a rare African vine that has been recorded blooming only a handful of times in the last century. You'll hear how the plant had sat quietly in its pot since twenty eighteen, planted by a colleague who never got to see it flower, and how the garden itself grew from a handful of Atlantans who spent years pestering the city for land beside Piedmont Park. Keep an eye on the Fuqua Orchid Center nearby, home to the country's largest permanent display of species orchids.