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Columbus Botanical Garden Expansion
Project Information
- Project Location:
- Columbus, GA
- Approx Contract:
- $1,000,000
- Status:
- Completed - Aug 2020
- Structure Type:
- Park / Playground
Scope Of Work
The Columbus Botanical Gardens is located Georgia on 36 acres of rolling hills in Northeast Columbus Georgia. Founded in 1999 on the property of the local Adams Farms property dating back to the 1860’s.
The Terrace Garden broke ground in December 2019 with the clearing and excavation of the land adjacent to the Garden’s existing Rose Garden. The project consisted of the infrastructure, hardscape, and landscape to create two individual terrace gardens, the Ginkgo Shade Terrace and the Perennial Terrace. The Ginkgo Shade Terrace was built as a team with the Columbus Botanical Garden’s director and lead architect to develop a Japanese Garden highlighting the Ginkgo biloba, or maidenhair tree; considered a living fossil and the world’s oldest tree dating back 200 million years with no recognizable evolution or relative plant species. The Perennial Terrace contained a design-build oval basin water feature built to resemble the local, historic Chattahoochee River. The interior of the oval water basin included a granite stone coping cap bearing an excerpt from William Bartram’s July 1775 writings depicting the Chattahoochee River and surrounding land, now home to Columbus, GA.