The North Metro Atlanta Chapter of the Georgia Native Plant Society

You’re invited to the fifth annual Intown Atlanta GNPS Native Garden Tour. Tickets include admission to four habitats.

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Register for this day of self-guided tours and get inspired about adding native plants to your yard or patio. Spring is the perfect time of year to view the beautiful woodland wildflowers and spring ephemerals of our featured gardens. Enjoy the milder April temperatures while you meander down woodland paths, stroll past buckeyes and flowering azaleas, and admire the spring blooms that attract bees, hummingbirds, and more.

The gardens are located in Gwinnett County. Visit each garden in any order on April 18th between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm, and learn from the homeowner or primary gardener and GNPS volunteers who will be on site to answer questions.

This tour has sold out in the past, so invite your friends and family and get your tickets early! Volunteers and children under 18 attend free.

The garden tour is Intown Atlanta’s major annual fundraising event. Ticket sales support our educational, restoration, and advocacy activities focused on inspiring Atlanta to grow and preserve native plants. We also warmly invite you to make an additional donation to our chapter when you register for the tour. Your support makes our all-volunteer-led work possible!

Interested in Volunteering?

Volunteers will be asked to work four-hour shifts at one of the gardens and can attend the rest of the tour for free. If interested, email lauren.owens@gnps.org.

Not Yet a GNPS Member?

Join GNPS and save $5 on your ticket, plus become eligible for other member-only events, including plant rescues and small group visits to newly certified gardens. Your GNPS membership supports work on native plants throughout the state.

A brochure that includes the addresses and property descriptions will be emailed to ticket holders one week before the event. This is a rain or shine event.

2026 Garden Tour Featured Gardens

Garden 1

Adjacent to a forested floodplain, this 4-acre lot near Lilburn features a cultivated bird habitat along with thriving pollinator and meadow gardens. Once heavily impacted by invasive plants, the property has been steadily reclaimed to restore native flora and support local wildlife.  The property showcases many of our native fern species.  Visitors will see a variety of habitat zones designed to provide food, shelter, and nesting resources for birds, butterflies, and other beneficial insects. The gardens showcase how native plants can be used to create beauty, resilience, and ecological function in an HOA Covenant neighborhood.

Garden 2

This beautiful and expansive wooded property on the Yellow River in Gwinnett County is verdant in spring with newly emerged wildflowers and ferns under a diverse tree canopy. Over many years of gradually expanding planting islands, all of the lawn has been replaced with native perennials, shrubs, and groundcovers.

Quiet mulched trails wind through the trees to allow visitors to tour the 1.24 acre property without stepping on the many native plants that thrive here, including barren strawberry, Allegheny spurge, several species of trilliums, and so much more. Many of the plants were rescued on GNPS rescues; others are native to the property or acquired through plant sales, native plant nurseries, or from the Stone Mountain Propagation Project.

Garden 3

This 1/3 acre wooded garden in Lilburn was started in 1999. Traditional gardening styles evolved over time into gardening to create habitat for wildlife and outside living. Plantings have grown to include many native pollinator plants and plants that help feed birds and other wildlife. Lawns have been reduced to minimal areas for paths. A beautiful blueberry hedge lines the driveway and feeds the family and the birds. Whimsical art pottery and a cedar branch tree provide fun elements to search for throughout the garden. This GNPS Gold award garden is also registered with NWF as a wildlife habitat, Xerces Society for arthropod support, and Homegrown National Park. Over 65 species of birds have been identified as feeding in the garden and numerous species nest and raise their young in the wooded areas.

Garden 4

When the owner moved into her home in Snellville about 28 years ago, the sunny front yard was a Bermuda grass lawn with a maple tree in the center and the usual hollies at the foundation of the house. Her first move was to pull out the hollies and start removing grass. The maple tree has gotten much bigger but is now amidst buckeyes, a dogwood, and native azaleas, as well as many native wildflowers, including Eastern columbine, wild geranium, downy coreopsis, grass-leaf blazing star, golden alexander, Amsonia, and hairy spiderwort.

The wooded backyard is full of spring ephemerals, such as trillium, bloodroot, Jacob’s ladder, and mayapple, as well as rescued Piedmont azalea. Coral honeysuckle, virgin’s bower, and climbing hydrangea bloom in the spring. Small rain gardens have been added to help control run off, along with raised beds for herbs.

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Please come out and enjoy!

Intown Atlanta Garden Tour Committee