Visit a Garden

Demonstration gardens are often located in public spaces, such as at a library or the Extension office. Extension Master Gardener demonstration gardens serve as outdoor classrooms, offering living examples of plant choices or modeling gardening methods. Master Gardeners offer educational events at their demonstration gardens, such as walks, tours, and workshops.

Need plant inspiration? Visit a UGA Extension Master Gardener Volunteer demonstration garden near you! Open to the public, these gardens are like an outdoor classroom offering a great source of information and ideas for your own garden.

Click the first image below to open the image gallery and navigate through the images of demonstration garden pictures labeled with county name and garden name. Then, read through details about each garden, including visitor information and address.

Athens-Clarke County

ACC Demonstration Garden: Where Knowledge and Inspiration Grow

The ACC Demonstration Garden is a creative, relaxing space, where the public can experience seasonal ornamentals plants as well as a thriving vegetable garden. Many of the flowers and plants are neatly labeled. The Master Gardeners who curate this space have provided examples and inspiration for any kind of gardener. From up-cycled trellises and birdhouses to a native pollinator palace and towering corn or okra, there are ideas and new experiences for everyone.
The garden is fully open to the public. We ask that visitors only visit during daylight hours and that they latch the deer fence behind them when they leave.
275 Cleveland Rd, Bogart, GA 30529

Oconee Plant A Row for the Hungry Garden

Oconee Plant A Row (PAR) is a 1/2 acre vegetable garden where Master Gardeners grow thousands of pounds of produce each year. This produce is donated to local organizations that feed those in need. The PAR garden serves as a way support the community and is a great training and experiential garden for the Master Gardeners that volunteer there.
The garden is located at Farm 441, which donates the land for the garden. Please be respectful to their business and stop in to look around. They have lots of great plants and other goodies, including peach ice cream!
Thomas Orchards, 6091 Macon Hwy, Bishop, GA 30621

Bartow County

The Grand Shakespeare Garden

This is a themed garden that cultivates plants mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.
Free and open to the public daily. Learn more here.
17 North Wall Street, Cartersville, GA 30120

Rose Lawn Museum Demonstration Garden

Rose Lawn is a Victorian mansion that was built in Cartersville, Georgia, in the early 1900s by Sam P. Jones, the "Billy Graham" of the late-nineteenth century. Jones’ wife, Laura, developed the 4-acre estate into a beautiful garden area that featured 225 rose bushes, thus the name Rose Lawn. The Rose Lawn Museum property is considered a historical demonstration garden providing community members with a perspective on the heritage of the roses and history of the site.
Gardens open to the public daily for free self-guided walking tour. Museum Tours 10 a.m.- 12 p.m. and 1-5 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Museum Admission: Adults $7, Students (12 & under) $5. Learn more here.
224 W Cherokee Ave, Cartersville, GA 30120

Carroll County

Buffalo Creek Garden

The Buffalo Creek Garden is designed, planted, and maintained by Carroll County Master Gardener Volunteers. Established in 1996, the garden is now the largest pleasure garden in Carroll County. Besides the lovely water feature, a gazebo, specimen trees, flowering shrubs, and perennials, the garden features sculptures and paintings by local artists as permanent features of the garden. It has become a favorite location for weddings, photographers, hikers, and those who just want to stop and smell the roses. The Buffalo Creek Garden can be accessed from the Carrollton Greenbelt through the Buffalo Creek Trail.
The garden is open from dawn till dusk. There is a small parking area right at the garden or you can park in a larger parking area in front of the 911 building. No admission fee. Dogs must be leashed.
900 Newnan Road, Carrollton, GA 30117 (Carroll County property next to the 911 building)

Chatham County

Pollinator Garden at the Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens

This garden features pollinator plant species, many of which are native to Coastal Georgia. Visitors can observe butterflies, bees, wasps, & other pollinators foraging the blooms from Spring through Fall. The garden also demonstrates other important features of pollinator gardens such as a water source, bare soil areas, and larval host plants.
The Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. and Sunday 12:00-4:00 p.m. There is ample parking and the garden is handicap accessible. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for youth. Free admission for certain special events such as the Pollinator Census and Native Plant Sale. No pets allowed.
2 Canebrake Road, Savannah, GA 31405

Cherokee County

Backyard Agriculture Education Station

The 0.2-acre garden focuses on backyard-scale fruit and vegetable gardening. It includes 10 raised beds, fruit orchard, berry plantings, trellises for vining fruits, and a native plant/pollinator habitat.
The space is utilized for classes, trainings, and events, but as of now does not have standard drop-in times. More information here.
7345 Cumming Hwy, Canton, GA 30115

Cherokee County Senior Services Demonstration Garden

This demonstration garden features a varied and beautiful selection of plants including individual gardens with themes like bogs, heirlooms, herbs and more.
Parking on site and open during daylight hours for self guided tours. MGEV workdays are first and third Thursdays of each month from 10-noon if you would like a guided tour.
1001 Univeter Rd. Canton, GA 30115

Coweta County

The Inspiration Garden

Master Gardener Extension Volunteers provide service to the Coweta County community by designing, maintaining, and propagating this garden year-round. The garden allows us to showcase native and pollinator plants, flowers, vegetables, herbs, and other plants that thrive in our area with minimal maintenance. Also, importantly, the garden is a place to appreciate beauty, find serenity, relax, and enjoy.
Hours: Monday - Saturday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm, Sunday 12:00 pm - 4:30 pm, Free to the Public
275 Pine Road, Newnan, GA 30263

Fayette County

Fayette Education Garden

The Fayette Education Garden is a project ran by the Fayette County Master Gardener Extension Volunteers. The garden is broken up into different theme gardens to include herbs, edibles, pollinator, native, bog, and keyhole. Volunteers use the space to provide hands on educational activities throughout the year to youth and adults participating in Extension programs.
Garden is open until dusk. Enter at your own risk and stay on the paths. We do have lots of wildlife in the garden
Heritage Parkway (Near the Fayette County Public Library, 1821 Heritage Pkwy, Fayetteville, GA 30214)

Fayette Plant-A-Row Garden

The educational focus of this garden is the use of Plasticulture. Plasticulture improves production in quantity and quality, using less pesticides, fertilizers, water and labor. Using this this process, this garden has produced 30-40 thousand pounds of produce for the last ten years. This food is all donated to shelters, food banks and needy families.
This garden is open to the public only during working hours with MGEVs. The work days are Mondays and Thursdays, 9am - 12pm, February through August. There is free parking and an electric fence is engaged outside of work hours.
551 New Hope Road, Fayetteville, GA 30214

Liberty Tech Charter School Garden

This is a school garden that has an extensive children gardening program. Visitors will be able to interact with students and facilitators on the various educational garden activities that the children participates in as well as see the work that has been accomplished in the garden. An excellent opportunity for the children to exhibit a "show and tell" of their accomplishments.
Visitors will be allowed to visit this site on June 1st, 9am-12pm only. Even though school will be closed for the summer; faculty, parents and children will be available to interact with visitors. Parking is available, no after hours access.
The garden is physically located at the back on the school's property. (119 Price Road, Brooks, GA 30205)

Floyd County

The Major Ridge Demonstration Garden at Chieftains Museum

The Chieftains Museum Major Ridge Demonstration Garden was created through the vision of the Chieftains Museum Landscape Advisory Board as a way to demonstrate on a smaller scale the wide variety of plants and crops that were grown on Major Ridge’s plantation. Documentation from the time period when Ridge lived on the farm provided direction for the selection of historically accurate plants. The demonstration garden brings to life the living history of Major Ridge’s large agriculture operation, which included food gardens, vast crop land, acres of orchards, and medicinal gardens.
Admission to the garden is free and open to visitors during the museum hours of operation: Wednesday through Saturday 8 am until 5 pm. There is ample parking, which can accommodate up to three tour buses.
501 Riverside Pkwy NE, Rome, GA 30161

Forsyth County

The Poetry Garden

At this garden, learn about edibles, natives, and shade tolerant plants. Find many lively garden visitors every day.
5010 Post Road Cumming, GA 30040

Pollinator Garden at Hampton Park Library

This garden was started as part of the Etowah Watershed project. It is a propagator and pollinators delight, and you can see many native pollinators here. In addition, there is a seed library inside the library.
5345 Settingdown Road Cumming, GA 30041

Fulton County

Archibald Smith Plantation Woodland Native Garden

The horticultural emphasis of the project at Archibald Smith Plantation is the restoration and preservation of native woodland plants toward earning the Gold Native Plant Habitat Award from the Georgia Native Plant Society.
Admission to the park and museum is free and pets on a leash are welcome on the grounds. Visitors can enjoy walking on the trails and tour the historic buildings preserved on the grounds. This project is an active forest restoration site and so visitors should be careful to remain on the marked trails as excessive foot traffic off the trail can damage the habitat.
935 Alpharetta Street Roswell, GA 30075

GROWL Garden

The GROWL Garden is a multi-use garden. The garden includes raised beds rented by community gardeners that grow seasonal fruits, vegetables, and flowers. The site also serves as an outdoor classroom for Master Gardener-led educational programs. Visitors can see edible plant options and observe a variety of pollinators in the garden.
The garden is open during daylight hours. Parking is available at the dining hall building.
4300 Herschel Road College Park, GA 30337

Lost Corner Preserve Cottage Garden

The garden includes ornamental plants under the shade of a century old oak. The preserve includes a one-mile trail through the forest, a community garden, and a greenhouse. Visitors can explore a site being restored with native plants.
7300 Brandon Mill Road, Sandy Springs, GA 30328

Native Gardens at Island Ford

The horticultural emphasis of the Native Gardens at Island Ford is to showcase the diversity of native plants found along the Chattahoochee River and provide enhanced habitat for pollinators.
The Chattahoochee National Recreation Area is headquartered at the Island Ford Unit and the park visitor center is located at this site. The parking fee is $5 for a day pass or $40 for an annual pass. The park is managed by the National Park Service and includes opportunities for hiking, fishing, and wildlife viewing along the Chattahoochee River. The Native Gardens are located on either side of the entrance to the park.
Entrance to the park at 8850 Roberts Drive Sandy Springs, GA 30350

Native Perennial Garden at the Teaching Museum North Greenhouse

The horticultural emphasis of the Native Perennial Garden is to showcase “Our Favorite Native Perennials” suitable for a sunny location.
This garden includes 45 varieties of perennials and is in its third year which is when these plants should begin to thrive. The garden is located adjacent to the Teaching Museum North and Independence High School. There is parking available but no public restrooms available.
793 Mimosa Boulevard Roswell, GA 30075

Summerour House Garden at Autrey Mill Preserve

The horticultural emphasis of the garden at Summerour House is to showcase heritage plants matching the restored home’s period.
Autrey Mill Nature Preserve has three miles of wooded walking trails, a butterfly garden, a farm museum, and farm animals on exhibit. Admission to the grounds is free. Dogs on a leash are welcome at the park. The buildings are available for visitors to explore the exteriors and a cell phone tour is available.
9770 Autrey Mill Road Johns Creek, GA 30022

Gilmer County

The DIG (Discover, Inspire, Grow)

The DIG is the Gilmer County Master Gardener Extension Volunteer teaching and demonstration garden. Built and first planted in spring 2014, the garden is designed to showcase best gardening techniques as recommended by the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, to test new plants and growing ideas, and to provide a space for relaxation and enjoyment. The garden is also a certified Monarch Waystation. It is funded by community and Master Gardener donations and maintained by MGEVs who invite you to stop by anytime to enjoy the space and learn more about gardening.
The garden is located at the Gilmer County Public Library and is open-access to the public. Visiting during library operational hours is preferred.
Gilmer County Public Library (268 Calvin Jackson Dr, Ellijay, GA 30540)

Glynn County

Madge Merritt 4-H Teaching Garden

Here, the Master Gardener Volunteers and 4-H students work together to demonstrate different methods for growing vegetables and fruit that are in season. They also have a native/pollinator plant garden. These focus areas help to demonstrate gardening techniques that you can implement at your own coastal home!
Free entry. We ask that you tour during business hours: Monday-Friday 8:00AM-5:00PM. Please schedule by emailing uge3127@uga.edu. We also have open garden days with the Master Gardener Volunteers on the first Saturday of each month from 9:00-11:00AM.
325 Old Jesup Rd, Brunswick, GA 31520

Gwinnett County

Slow Pour Brewery Demo Garden

The garden interplants vegetables, pollinator plants and plants used to produce beer (hops, barley etc.). There is signage detailing pollinator facts, information about vegetable gardening and factoids about the plants used to make beer. Events like Arbor Day (ArPour Day) feature Forest Service employees, nursery representatives, and brewery tours of the facility so people can see how the plants make it into the brew. Gwinnett MGEVs host a Great Georgia Pollinator Census count here every year and encourage customers to become citizen scientists. There are many children that come along with their parents to hang out and socialize, all age groups are reached at this garden.
During the day Slow Pour is a coffee house, and at night a brewery. There is trivia, cornhole, and food trucks. The garden is open outside of business hours. People are encouraged to stop and 'smell the flowers' at all times.
407 N Clayton St, Lawrenceville, GA 30046

Henry County

The Gardens at Nolan House

The Historic and Woodland Gardens each have unique features for learning through reading information about the historic home on the property, reading floral signage and brochures, and hopeful experiencing relaxation and contemplation through the serenity of the sounds and sights of nature.
The Heritage Park, in which the Nolan House and gardens are located, is open all days with the hours of the park being 8:00 am - 11:00 pm. The best visiting hours are 8:00 am to dusk as the garden does not have lighted pathways. Parking is easily accessible, and pets are welcomed but with supervision and for waste maintenance.
Adjacent to the Henry Co. Extension Office: 97 Lake Dow Rd., McDonough, GA 30252

Houston County

Hafley Park

Hafley Park is filled with a variety of plants. There are pollinators, a pizza garden, rock garden, composting and more! You can learn about all types of gardening and Hafley Park has something for all ages to learn.
Hafley Park is open to the public and free to visit. Classes held at the park are listed on the Houston County Extension website. There is parking right by the gate.
1527 Sunshine Ave., Perry, GA 31069

Hope Garden

This is a camellia garden originally in tribute for deceased veterans that has since been designated as a therapy garden for suicide prevention.
The garden is open during daylight hours and Military ID is needed to gain access to the base where the park is located.
550 Club Dr., Robins Air Force Base, GA 31098

Perry Library Native Garden

This garden has native plants and helps visitors see the flora and fauna interaction and life cycle. There is a section of books inside the library that cover the plants and wildlife seen in this native garden.
904 Northside Dr., Perry, GA 31069

Sacred Heart St. Isadore Vegetable Garden

Visit to learn about how to grow vegetables in central GA.
The garden is open during daylight hours and there is parking under the trees by the garden. Pets are allowed. Admission is free and donations are welcomed when visiting.
300 S. Davis Drive, Warner Robins, GA 31088

Paulding County

Paulding County Extension Demonstration Gardens

Paulding Demonstration Gardens offer something for every gardener. Children will enjoy an interactive visit to the Sensory Garden. Gardeners interested in growing their own food will be interested to visit the Vegetable Garden. The Native Garden will show gardeners how to create a low maintenance and sustainable landscape at home. Finally, the Pollinator Garden is a beautiful example of how gardeners can create a pollinator habitat at home.
Visit anytime during daylight hours. Check with the office for worksheets and scavenger hunt sheets for the Children's Garden.
530 West Memorial Drive, Dallas, GA 30132

Troup County

Troup County Extension Demonstration Garden

The Troup County Extension Demonstration Garden is located behind the Extension office. Master Gardener Extension Volunteers are working on raised garden beds and the first wildflower seeds have started to sprout. MGEVs are looking forward to welcoming pollinators and enjoying the beautiful wildflowers this summer.
If you want to know more about garden plans and projects, and other Extension Programs, please stop by the Troup County Extension office.
2168 Pegasus Parkway, LaGrange, GA 30240

Union County

Georgia Mountain Research and Education Center Ethnobotanical Garden

This garden features a woodland trail, groundcover demonstration garden, fern garden, forage garden, bog garden, pollinator garden, and herb garden. Each of these gardens demonstrate plants that grow well in North Georgia under different conditions.
Guided tours available on Mondays, May through September. Self-guided tours Tuesday through Friday. Stop by GMREC office to check in before your self-guided tour.
195 Georgia Mtn Expmnt Sta. Blairsville, GA 30512

Gold Medal Garden

Pollinator garden with plants that are well suited for Georgia. Features plants from the Gold medal program.
No admission fee. This garden is part of the Union County Farmers Market. Visitors on Saturdays from June through October will also see hundreds of vendors at the Farmers Market.
290 Farmers Market Way, Blairsville, GA, 30512

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