By: Kennedy Bryant
Welcome Center and additional reading at the Botanic Gardens. These pamphlets are perfect for your start on a self guided tour.
The pond when you first enter the Botanic Gardens. Frogs and other wildlife are present in the pond.
This is Bryan Babot a gardener at the Botanic Gardens. Bryan was able to give me a tour of the gardens.
This is blueberries that Bryan is showing me. The Botanic Gardens have a wide array of fruit that they grow on property including blueberries.
This is Bryan showing me more foliage across the gardens. He was very in depth about the plants that they are growing.
Garden volunteers that are cleaning up around the property. They are pulling weeds and making sure everything is beautiful for guest.
These ladiesnwere touring the grounds. They have a wedding planned at the Botanic Gardens this summer.
These two lovely ladies are strolling the grounds. They are Statesboro locals who like to come and roam the grounds.
Education ground that is touring the gardens. School groups come all the time to tour the Botanic Gradens and get educated on environmental stewardship.
Grape vine that is growing on the grounds. This is one of many grape vines on the grounds.
This is the same High School group touring the grounds. Morgan Dunn is showing them around the property she is the education coordinater,
More volunteers around the garden preserving the plants.
Lacy Warenzak also told me what is the most important thing about rhe gardens. The fact that it is a living museum.
Lacey also mentioned to me how this impacts the community. “It's a beautiful thing for the community.”
Bryan is showing a tree that is unfortunatly almost at the end of its lifecycle. It's also Bryan’s favorite tree.
These are the bee colonies on property. They have a section of the garden called the pollinater garden.
The Botanic Gardens is a place for everyone of all ages according to Lacy Warenzak. She said “ [it's] just a place for the community, and to educate people… it's just for everybody”
More fruit that is grown at the Botsnic Gradens. This is a pear tree that is almost ripe.
Bryan showed me this plant because it is his favorite. It is known as Indian ricegrass.
This is Bryan’s favorite tree. This is called a toothache tree and it is at the end of its lifecycle.
