Annual spring gardening symposium with a speaker lineup and plant sale at the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
The Spring Gardening Symposium & Plant Sale returns to the Atlanta Botanical Garden on Saturday, January 23, 2027. It's an annual event that brings together two things that usually happen at different times of the year: a full day of gardening expertise and a plant sale to get your garden started. If you've been thinking about what to plant this spring, this is a good place to figure it out and buy the plants in the same trip.
The symposium side of the day is built around a lineup of speakers who talk through the practical side of gardening. It's not just a single presentation; there's a series of them throughout the day, so you can pick and choose the sessions that actually matter for your yard. Between the talks, the plant sale is running, with vendors selling on-site. If you're planning to take part in the symposium, there's also registration for those who want to sign up for the full program.
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It's a long day, running from 8 AM to 4 PM, which gives you plenty of time to move between the talks and the sale without feeling rushed. The whole thing is at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, 1345 Piedmont Ave NE, in the heart of the city. If you're coming from outside the immediate neighborhood, it's right there on Piedmont, so it's easy to find. The symposium and the sale run together, so you can listen to a speaker and then head over to the vendors to pick up whatever you've just heard about.
