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Explore the city’s most beautiful urban oasis during the cool of summer evenings
at Cocktails in the Garden Thursdays during May through September. The
Atlanta Botanical Garden’s weekly “social irrigation” party is the only
opportunity to experience the fantasy of Imaginary Worlds Plants Larger
Than Life
at night.
Guests
enjoy specialty cocktails, live music from the city’s hottest deejays, and
tantalizing cooking demonstrations by the Garden Chef every week from 6 - 10
p.m. While strolling the Garden’s gorgeous grounds they’ll encounter 19 gigantic
living plant sculptures that make up the summer exhibition of Imaginary
Worlds.
The
pieces resemble giant topiaries but actually are works of mosaiculture - the
centuries-old horticultural art of using thousands of tiny plants to cover steel
forms in a mosaic-like carpet to create a living sculpture. Designed and built
by International Mosaiculture of Montreal®,
the sculptures have never been shown in the United States and include
fantasy-themed pieces, such as a grazing unicorn, towering cobras, a friendly
ogre, and a giant 25 foot tall earth goddess.
Each
month during Cocktails in the Garden, these fantasy sculptures are
highlighted with themed drinks:
May:
Social Butterflies
June:
Snake Juice
July:
Drink Like a Fish
August:
Hair of the Dog
September:
Magic Martinis
In
addition, cash bars offer an array of other cocktails, beer and wine, and dinner
may be purchased at MetroFresh in the Garden café. As the only opportunity to
stroll the Garden at night - when romantic sunsets and fragrant blossoms cast an
alluring spell - Cocktails in the Garden is both the perfect date night
and a fun outing among friends as well.
Admission is $18.95; Garden members free.
*The
mission of the Atlanta Botanical Garden is to develop and maintain plant
collections for display, education, research, conservation and enjoyment. The
Garden is located at 1345 Piedmont Ave. NE in Midtown. Garden hours are Tuesday
- Sunday, November-March from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and April-October from 9 a.m. - 7
p.m. (Thursdays till 10 p.m.). Admission is $18.95 adults, $12.95 children 3-12,
free to children under 3 and Garden members. For more information visit
atlantabotanicalgarden.org or call 404.876.5859.
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