The State Botanical Garden will be closed on Friday, January 23, 2026, for a special event.
The State Botanical Garden will be closed on Friday, January 23, 2026, for a special event.
$12 general admission | $10 for members
December may seem like an odd time to talk tulips, but it is the perfect time to plant bulbs that will flower next spring. Jim Moneyhun will provide a brief history of tulips, including the Ottoman Empire’s fascination with the flower and the seventeenth-century Dutch Tulip Mania. He will also suggest tulip species and hybrids most likely to return year after year and discuss practices for planting and protecting tulips from herbivory.
Jim is curator of the Flower Garden and a horticulturist at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia. The Flower Garden extends from the Heritage Garden to the Day Chapel and down the tiered lawns, which host the Sunflower concert series. He and his team, consisting of two part-time staff and 10 regular volunteers, maintain the Flower Garden. He also supervises countless UGA student-volunteers through the Learning-by-Leading program. In the Fall of 2024, the Flower Garden team planted 8,900 tulip bulbs and 5,100 other spring-blooming bulbs. Prior to joining the State Botanical Garden, Jim worked for 20 years in the public sector, writing local, comprehensive plans and administering state and federal grants.
The registration deadline is noon on Nov. 28.
