The Georgia Perennial Plant Association welcomes plant lovers of all kinds, because no garden is complete with perennials only.  We want to share that love along with knowledge, expertise and helpful information regarding buying, planting, caring for and sharing plants. We hope you will consider becoming a member.

 
Benefits of membership include invitations to our lectures at no charge, mini-talks, Q&A's with the experts, workshops, and local garden tours and visits.  Members also receive regular newsletters mixing updates on our activities with educational material about perennials and gardening.  

 

The Members' Only Content section gives members exclusive access to our lectures, newsletter and article collection, our expansive Plant Nursery Guide to Atlanta and Beyond, a list of Open Gardens that members can arrange to visit anytime, and other helpful gardening materials. 

 

Our low membership prices are a great value. Memberships for 2025 are $35 Individual, $50 Dual, $65 Business and $100 Sponsor. Memberships run from January 1 to December 31 of each year with renewals beginning in the fall prior to the new year. New members who sign up in the fall have memberships from the date of joinder to December of the following year.

  

Our Remaining 2024 Speaker Series 

 

🌱 We feature nationally known garden speakers that members can watch live, live-streamed and/or recorded will include:

  

September 16, 7:30p - Jason Reeves, "Garden Heroes: Pollinator & Host Edition" - Dunwoody Nature Center & Zoom

 

October 21, 7:30p - Dr. Bodie Pennisi, UGA, Vincent E. Dooley Endowed Chair of Ornamental Horticulture, "All About Perennial Chrysanthemums" - Dunwoody Nature Center & Zoom

  

Coming in 2025

January 20, 2025 - Dr. Doug Tallamy on Zoom (Date tentative)

 

February 22, 2025 - Symposium & Silent Auction

 

Emceed by: Lisa Bartlett

Featuring three speakers:

Richard Hawke, Director of Ornamental Plant Research, Chicago Botanic Garden

Jennifer Petritz, Horticulturist, Garden Writer, Garden Designer and Garden Coach

Thomas Rainer, Landscape Architect, Author & Teacher 

 

 

April, September and October speakers: To be announced soon

  

Our regular meetings are held on the 3d Monday of the month at the Dunwoody Nature Center, generally starting at 7:30 p with social time beginning at 6:30p.  Find directions and info about where to eat nearby here: Dunwoody Nature Center. Check our Calendar of Events and Upcoming Events on the bottom of this page for more info about specific events.

 

 

Organized garden trips beyond Atlanta including but not limited to:

 

🌱 February - Greenville Master Gardeners Association Symposium

 🌱 April - UGA Trial Garden Sale and UGA Hort Club Sales  and Athens Nurseries

 🌱April  - Piedmont Gardeners Tour of Athens Georgia Gardens

🌱 June  - American Hydrangea Society Garden Tour

🌱 Possible other "local-ish" garden tours (NC? TN? We are working on it; share ideas)

 

 

More local garden visits and garden-based parties including but not limited to:

 

🌱 A Fall Garden Party on Saturday, October 26, 2024  at Anthony Donofrio & Sherman Wong's Home in Smyrna. 1 - 4 pm. Details coming soon.

 🌱 Spring Midtown Plant Swap at Kathleen Dumitrescu's Home (May 2025)

🌱 Midtown Garden Stroll (May 2025)

🌱 A Spring Garden Party (TBA)

 

"Shop and Sip" nursery visits, where -- on short notice -- we visit local nurseries and then visit a local watering hole for a nosh and drinks. It's a great way to really get to know fellow gardeners.

   

Be sure to regularly check our calendar or Upcoming Events columns below for news and details on these and more events to come. We are calendaring and planning fast and furiously!!!!! Meanwhile:

 

 

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Recent content with quick links in blue:

 

Homemade Weed Killers -- Is It Safe or Effective? - Gardening Article Blog

Perennial Plant of 2025 - Pycnanthemum muticum - Plant and Plant Biz Blog 

Abutilon - Flowering Maple - Perennial Profile Blog

 

Frequently Requested References

 

Updated Plant Nursery Guide to Atlanta & Beyond - Members Only tab (must log in) 

Aster Yellows Disease and Coneflower Rosette Mites

Plants for Dry Shade

Clay Busting Plants and Techniques

 

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Chelone -- Turtlehead

 

 

 

Chelone lyonii 'Tiny Tortuga'

 

Late summer and early fall is  when Chelone, commonly known as Turtlehead, shines. 

 

Chelone requires moist soil to really thrive. It grows mostly in part sun to part shade. It can also take full sun if kept consistently moist (a challenge few can meet). It grows fine in high shade too, although it tends to get leggy. It is a good candidate for use in a rain garden.

 

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Jason Reeves, "Garden Heroes - Pollinator and Host Edition" - Mon. Sept. 16 at 7:30, Live and via Zoom

 

 

 

Join us for one of the most popular garden speakers around. Jason Reeves, research horticulturist and curator of the University of Tennessee Gardens located at the West Tennessee Research and Education Center in Jackson, Tennessee.

 

Jason will help guide us to building better pollinator gardens, focussing on the dependable plants, old and new, native and nonnative, popular and forgotten, that help attract pollinators and support the life cycles of pollinators.

 

Social time begins at 6:30p; Speaker begins at 7:30.

Zoom invites will be sent to all current members a day or two before the event.

 

As a special treat: Jason runs plant sales for the Gardens at U. Tenn. at Jackson and will be bringing along some of his "Garden Heroes" to sell to benefit Internships at the Gardens. 

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