Special Events

2007 SPRING SYMPOSIUM Click here to see pictures from the Symposium Saturday, February 3, 2007 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Come Home to Your Garden A Perennial Plant Symposium and Silent Auction Presented by The Atlanta Botanical Garden and The Georgia Perennial Plant Association Held in Day Hall of the Atlanta Botanical Garden Registration fee $67(ABG/GPPA members $57) - Boxed lunch $10 To register by phone, call the Atlanta Botanical Garden at 404-876-5859 ext. 2558. Featured Speakers Make Your Garden Your Own: Tools and Techniques to Create Your Garden Home Dan Benarcik, horticulturist of Chanticleer Gardens in Pennsylvania, creates many of the features that make this garden a national treasure. Shaded Spaces: Intimate Seats and Horticultural Treats Cole Burrell is a garden designer, photographer and award winning author. Most recently he is co-author of “Hellebores: A Comprehensive Guide”. Pint Sized Perennials: Small Treasures for the Front of the Border Stephanie Cohen is a popular speaker and co-author of the best-selling “The Perennial Gardener’s Design Primer”. Portable Gardens: Containers for Every Space Mildred Pinnell Fockele is Director of Horticulture, Atlanta Botanical Garden. Vertical Attraction: Climbers and How to Use Them Paula Refi  is a garden designer, popular lecturer and editor of the Georgia Perennial Plant Association newsletter “Perennial Notes”. For more information, e-mail Anne Sheldon, GPPA symposium chair at absheldon@bellsouth.net. Click here for a printable flyer in PDF format.