| Register Online Free for Friends of the Garden members, $15 for non-members Join us for this year’s Friends of the Garden Annual Meeting featuring keynote speaker Jenks Farmer. At 5:30 p.m., members of the Friends of the Garden are invited to the annual business meeting in the Gardenside Room. At 6:15 p.m., there will be an old-fashioned barbecue dinner in the Visitor Center Great Room. At 7 p.m., Jenks Farmer’s keynote address will begin. The registration deadline is Friday, March 6, at noon. Jenks Farmer played a pivotal role in developing two of South Carolina’s largest public gardens — Riverbanks Botanical and Moore Farms Botanical. He started on both rough-graded construction sites, managed their installation, and set long-term visions. Jenks has written about both projects, which spanned 20 years and now host over a million guests a year. Jenks has served on the American Horticultural Society’s book awards committee and has authored influential books such as ‘Garden Disruptors.’ He is one of the few Deep South horticulturists interviewed by Britain’s Garden Masterclass and the New York Times. In 2026, he’ll be the first garden writer to be inducted into the SC Academy Hall of Fame. Today, Jenks runs a garden design firm and organically manages a big bulb nursery on his family’s 1750s farm on Beech Island, near Aiken, South Carolina. Jenks will be presenting his lecture Getting a Meadow is Like Getting a Puppy – Debunking Trendy Myths of Modern Gardening. He will pull back the curtain on the lawn-and-meadow craze that’s swept the gardening world. Organizer Friends of the State Botanical Garden of Georgia Friends of the State Botanical Garden of Georgia garden@uga.edu Venue Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
The State Botanical Garden of Georgia, a University of Georgia unit located in Athens. We are free and open to the public.
