ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN: A SPECIAL TREAT FOR MOTHER'S DAY!!

Take you mom to see the wonder and magic of Imaginary Worlds at the Atlanta Botanical Garden for Mother's Day! This exhibit, showcasing 28 giant topiary-like sculptures, returns to the garden bigger and better than ever. New to this exhibition are four frolicking frogs, three gallivanting gorillas and a pair of hairy orangutans in addition to the sculptures that debuted in the summer 2013 exhibition, including a pair of towering cobras, a grazing unicorn, a friendly ogre, a group of enchanting rabbits, and couple of whimsical butterflies! Those sculptures have all been “re-imagined” with new plant color schemes and staged in different parts of the Garden.

Imaginary Worlds: A New Kingdom of Plant Giants features monumental works of mosaiculture - the centuries-old horticultural art of planting steel forms with thousands of living plants - created by International Mosaiculture of Montreal®. The new exhibition sculptures, which have been “re-imagined”, include four frolicking frogs, three gallivanting gorillas and a pair of ogling orangutans as the newest denizens of the enchanted gardens.

Presented for the first time in the U.S. last summer at the Garden, the blockbuster exhibition Imaginary Worlds: Plants Larger Than Life showcased 19 sculptures. The largest, the 25-foot-tall Earth Goddess, is stuffed with 40,000 annuals and has become a permanent living sculpture in the Garden’s collection.

“This exhibition will be the largest ever presented in the U.S. and promises to be another ‘wildly’ successful one,” says Mary Pat Matheson, the Garden’s president and CEO.