A virtual experience to be enjoyed by you and your guests at a destination of your choice, plus a garden party in 2021!

Join us for an exciting evening including champagne toasts, fascinating tales from historian and biographer Andrea Wulf, catered dinner from the Green Island Club (available to participants within the Columbus, Ga., city limits), music by Schwob School of Music from the Garden, and a not-to-miss silent auction as we virtually celebrate the Garden’s history and exciting future. Your participation in this Fall Fundraiser helps to ensure the success of the Columbus Botanical Garden and its educational programs, public events, urban farming, and our outreach efforts to serve the people of Columbus.

See all details of this experience at the website below.

Andrea is an acclaimed botanical historian who is considered the expert on one of the world’s foremost scientific explorers and Naturalists, Alexander von Humboldt. Her best-selling biography, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World, reveals the explorer’s extraordinary life and his importance to the sciences. The British-German historian Andrea spent a decade researching the life of Alexander von Humboldt—in archives, libraries, and private collections. She has also traveled the world, tracing his footsteps, and replicating his expeditions in an effort to experience his significance.

Andrea has enthralled audiences from the Royal Geographical Society and Royal Society in London to Monticello and the New York Public Library. Andrea will entertain us with stories of a remarkable scientist and intrepid explorer who journeyed through rainforests and climbed active volcanoes while explaining nature as a global force.