Georgia Southern Botanical Garden

The garden usually provides an annual Arbor Day event offering several varieties of seedling trees to the community.

The main grounds for the Botanic Garden were willed to Georgia Southern University by the owners of the land, Dan and Catharine Bland.

The walking woodland trails have benches scattered about so that people can sit and rest while enjoying the birds and other wildlife that live within the gardens.

On one woodland trail is the Kennedy Outdoor Classroom with a small raised stage and benches that is used for some botanical garden presentations.

They met at First District Agricultural and Mechanical School (which would later become Georgia Southern University) and married in 1916.

Bland Cottage from the front.
Bland Cottage from the side.
The rose arbor with azaleas blooming in the background.
The Kennedy Outdoor Classroom with its stage in the woodland trail area of the Georgia Southern Botanical Garden.