Botanical Tour (by Walk With Me Savannah Tours)

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Savannah, USA

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2 hours (approx.)
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

Go for a stroll through Savannah’s historic squares and green spaces during this guided tour focused on botany. Learn to identify the city’s plants and flowers as you explore gardens, parks, and more. See several top Savanah landmarks including Columbia Square and Colonial Park Cemetery. Discover Savannah from a different perspective with this walking tour focused on the city’s natural beauty.

Learn about Savannah’s plants and flowers
Visit parks, gardens, cemeteries, and more
Discover Savannah with a guided walking tour
See landmarks including the Andrew Low House

What's Included

Fully narrated and interactive tour in English

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

Columbia Square
Savannah, GA 31401, USA
Your tour guide will be wearing a bright orange polo shirt with our logo on the front and back, and will meet you by the fountain in the middle of Columbia Square. If you are running late, give us a call. We will wait for late arrivals for 5 minutes before beginning.

End point

Marine Corps Memorial
1 W Gaston St, Savannah, GA 31401, USA

Itinerary

Columbia Square

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Colonial Park Cemetery (Pass By)

Lafayette Square

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Andrew Low House Museum

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Madison Square

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

West Jones Street (Pass By)

Monterey Square (Pass By)

Forsyth Park

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Service animals allowed
Near public transportation
Stroller accessible
Surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Transportation is wheelchair accessible

Wheelchair accessible
Most travelers can participate
Well-behaved pets allowed
Not recommended for those who cannot walk/roll 1/3 mile without resting
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 20 travelers

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Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

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Reviews

4.9

based on 44 reviews

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Not just botanical tour

Sarah_M, Dec 2024

Our tour guide, Sargon, was incredibly knowledgeable and engaging. They didn’t just recite endless facts, but infused fun little stories and history. My (adult) son and I greatly enjoyed this tour. Highly recommend!

Best tour in Savannah

CharleneCarty, Jun 2024

Sargon was a phenomenal guide! They were extremely knowledgeable and were happy to answer all my questions. It was a hot day and they made sure when we stopped it was in the shade. This was my favorite tour in Savannah by far! Thank you Sargon.

Fun learning experience

Patricia_C, May 2024

Such a great tour! Our guide was enthusiastic about plants and their relationship to the history of Savannah. It was fascinating to learn how the two fit together.

Excellent!

Susan_H, Apr 2024

Very knowledgeable. Knew what was in bloom so customized tour to timing. Could answer any questions and compare to our growing zone from home

Tour with Sargon

Maureen_B, Apr 2024

Sargon was a wonderful guide! She was so knowledgeable about plants and very enthusiastic!! Talking with her was the highlight of my visit to Savannah

Enjoyed the Botanical Tour

John_S, Mar 2024

S Sargon provided a lot of interesting information about many different plants and was able to answer all of our questions. She was knowledgeable and enthusiastic. Also her knowledge and insights about the various ironwork detail on many of the older homes was very much appreciated as well.

Savannah’s Beauty

Danette_P, Jul 2023

Saragon was an excellent tour guide! We learned so much about Savannah’s history while gaining knowledge on the flowers and trees that inhabit the beautiful city.

Well Worth the Trip even if you know nothing about plants.

Robert_G, Jul 2023

I am not into plants, I know nothing about them, but we thought this might be different and somewhat interesting. This experience was GREAT. Our guide, Charon(sp) was energetic, down to earth, explained everything on a level that I understood and very much kept my attention. She is a wealth of information and conveys it very well. The walking pace was perfect which we have found to be an issue with other tours- either too fast or slow. She also included an education into the iron works throughout the city. Well worth going on for anyone. Oh, and we know the real story about Spanish Moss !!

Sargon was an excellent...

Rachael_B, May 2023

Sargon was an excellent guide! Fun spirit and you can tell they love to share! Definitely recommend this unique tour.

Better than I expected!

Shannan_H, Apr 2023

What an amazing tour! So much better than I expected it to be! Sargon knew so much information! Very awesome! 2 full hours of walking so pack hydration and wear good shoes for sure. Maybe a hat or visor too.

Fantastic tour covering both botany and history!

Matthew_N, Apr 2023

Our guide Sargon was very personable and knowledgeable. She was very good at putting the plants we viewed in a historical context. We highly recommend!

Our guide was excellent....

Patricia_D, Apr 2023

Our guide was excellent. She knew her topic thoroughly and communicated her knowledge effectively and enthusiastically.

What's that plant?

Jolene_D, Apr 2023

Our tour guide, Miss Sargon, was the best! She was very knowledgeable and friendly. I would absolutely recommend this tour. It's very hands on and you can touch the plants as you get the name, history of origin and what that plant was used for either for culinary purposes or medicinal. Well worth it!

Great urban botanical tour

Patrick_M, Feb 2023

All the plants, and details therein. Guide knowledgeable, answered questions, provided historical context.

Great experience!

David_W, Nov 2022

What an amazing tour! My wife and I were having a tough start to our day. Got a late start, brunch at a certain location was awful, tired (sixth day of vacation) and snappy with each other. Needless to say, we weren't in the best frame of mind at the start of the tour. Sargon was awesome! Upbeat, honest, cheerful and most of all informative/knowledgeable. My wife and I take a lot of tours on vacations, we don't like figuring out what to do and like the education of where we are at the time. BEST tour ever due to Sargon. I have no idea how she keeps all that information in her head and is so easy to be around. Changed our whole day!

Guide was so knowledgeable and interesting!

Karen_S, Oct 2022

My mother and I really enjoyed our botanical tour experience even in October! The guide was so knowledgeable and friendly.

Knowledgeable Guide

Sandra_W, Sep 2022

Our guide was very knowledgeable about the plants as well as the history and architecture. It was a very good tour.

Sargon was an amazing...

Randy_L, Aug 2022

Sargon was an amazing guide who knew every plant in Savannah. I enjoyed the tour and learned many new things.

Excellent, entertaining and with lots of quirky buts of information

Peter_N, May 2022

Stories about plants and their uses and folklore, the history of the cemeteries and their trees. The urban history of Savannah

Highly recommend

Lisa_P, Apr 2022

One of the best tours I have ever been on. Sargon was so enthusiastic and knowledgeable. Loved it. Learned a lot!

Beautiful Gardens of Savannah

KarinStadler, Mar 2022

Sargon was a wonderful guide!!! They were even able to keep my 12 year old son interested for most of the tour, lol. We learned so much about the local plants, and the history of Savannah. We would definitely take one of their tours again!

Our tour guide was super...

Mary_T, Feb 2022

Our tour guide was super nice and so knowledgeable of Savannah history and especially the trees, flowers and plants native to the city. It was a very pleasant experience. Do need to be able to walk for two hours which was not an issue for us.

Botanics and more.

Angeles_M, Dec 2021

Our guide was really knowledgeable and told us not only about plants but also about Savannah history and the beautiful houses along the way. We really enjoyed the tour.

A delightful and unique experience

Brigitte, Nov 2021

We loved the “Rising Voices” tour so much, that we signed up for this botanical tour with our same guide, Sargon. They took us through the same squares and locations we had been through on other less-worthy tours, but taught us all about the different plants and architecture along the way. Once again, Sargon impressed us with extensive, detailed knowledge of the plants, trees, and flowers throughout the city, as well as the historical relevance of the architectural trends that you imagine when you think of Savannah. This tour left us feeling like we had a totally unique experience. If we could give this tour 6/5 stars, we would!

Response from Host, Nov 2021

Thank you so much for the fantastic review! It means a lot to me that you chose to come on a second tour, and I really loved taking you two around downtown both times! Thank you again for all the photos. If you're ever back in Savannah and want to go on tour again, feel free to contact me at walkwithmesavannahtours@gmail.com and I'll put together a custom route and different set of specific topics to cover for you. I hope you have a safe trip back home, and thanks again!

Memorable Experience

Rick_N, Jun 2021

Excellent tour! Interesting and fun guide, gave all the details we wanted on history, plants, etc. and showed us her favorite views, gates and more. A great way to learn Savannah!

Response from Host, Jun 2021

Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review! I had so much fun taking your group around Savannah, and was glad the weather (mostly) behaved itself! Don't forget, if you ever have any other questions about Savannah at any time, you can reach out to Walk With Me Savannah on facebook or on our website and ask!

Botanical Walking Tour

Terence_S, Jun 2021

Sargon is an excellent guide for the botanical walking tour. Her knowledge of the plants and history of Savannah made this a very informative and interesting tour of a beautiful city. Highly recommend this tour. Very easy pace.

Response from Host, Jun 2021

Thank you for taking the time to leave a review! We're glad you enjoyed the tour! Don't forget, if you ever have any other questions about Savannah at any time, you can reach out to Walk With Me Savannah on facebook or on our website and ask!

Nice tour guide.

Nancy_A, May 2021

Tour guide was wonderful. I felt she did not know all the flowers and plants, although she did know most and had great stories to go along with them. One drawback: people almost always sign up for an excursion they are not actually up to. This time it was an elderly woman. She was so frail (ill?) she could not keep up at all. At all. So the tour was stopped to wait up for this person. There needs to be a way to deal with these tourists so the others get to move on and get what they paid for. Refund the poor person, perhaps? Person had an adult daughter who blew off her sick elderly mother and continued on with the tour, ignoring the situation! Grrr. Other tourists were aggravated as well. Tour guides need to be ready for those who sign up and have no ability to keep up. The tour was not what it should have been. If the guide had explained that the tour had to go on for the paid guests and that she would refund the mother and daughter, it would have been the right thing to do. It was aggravating and distracting and we missed things. Tour guide offered to walk a little more with those who wanted to see more once the tour was ‘officially done’. But by then we’d had enough and we weren’t going to stick around for more nonsense. And, we were hungry. Sweet tour guide. Totally friendly. But all guides need to be able to keep a tour going. That’s what I pay for. And there is often at least one person who signs up and then cannot actually physically handle the tour

Response from Host, May 2021

Thank you very much for taking the time to provide feedback, it does mean a lot, and I understand your frustrations. Typical walking tour etiquette is to conduct tour at the pace set by the group as a whole - after all, when everyone has paid for the same ticket, it would be unfair to only give the tour to the fastest in the group. However, this was a unique situation, and to be honest was absolutely the first time we had encountered someone being unable to keep up at all, or the other member of the party not keeping track of them. It definitely could have been handled better, and for that we apologize. We will make sure to have a policy in place for the future, one that is fair to all parties, so that this does not happen again. The third party on that tour did leave a 5 star review of the experience, so perhaps they were less aggravated than you assumed. But we understand setbacks impact people differently, and it detracted from the experience for you. We are sincerely sorry for that. We did later look up that one variety of iris we weren't able to provide you an answer for (any unanswered question is a learning opportunity!), and it was an African Iris. We had been hoping you'd leave a review so that we had a way to let you know about that one.

Couldn’t have been happier

Nick_D, May 2021

Sargon was an excellent guide and we learned a lot of interesting facts about Savannah’s history and the beautiful plants. Would highly recommend to anyone.

Response from Host, May 2021

Thank you so much for leaving a review! I really enjoyed taking the two of you on tour, and sharing a little enthusiasm about the medicinal uses of the plants we highlighted! Don't forget, if you ever have any other questions about Savannah or any of the plant life or ironwork we saw, you can reach out on facebook or our website to ask!

Plant life in Savannah

Alexandra_E, May 2021

The tour was wonderful and our guide very knowledgeable. We looked at a great variety of plants and trees and learned about their unique traits and uses. A bonus was a look a quite a bit of botanical ironwork around the city and a brief overview of its importance in Savannah. We could have gone on twice as long and would go again in a heartbeat.

Response from Host, May 2021

Thank you so much for taking the time to review! It was great having your group on tour. Don't forget, if you ever have any other questions about Savannah or any of the plant life or ironwork we saw, you can reach out on facebook or our website to ask!

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