• SGHS 2024 Fall Board Meeting
    Old Salem, North Carolina

  • Swan House Gardens, Atlanta History Center
    Atlanta, Georgia

  • Carnton Plantation
    Franklin, Tennessee

  • Fall Board Meeting
    Charleston, South Carolina

  • Bellingrath Gardens and Home
    Theodore, Alabama

  • Charleston Horticultural Society
    Charleston, South Carolina

  • Elizabeth Lawrence House & Garden
    Charlotte, North Carolina

  • Bellamy Mansion Museum of History & Design Arts
    Wilmington, North Carolina

  • Eudora Welty House and Garden
    Jackson, Mississippi

  • Hills & Dales Estate
    LaGrange, Georgia

The Southern Garden History Society is a group of enthusiasts and professionals that fosters and shares scholarly research about our historic gardens, cultural landscapes, and horticultural history through educational programs and publications. We celebrate the beauty and diversity of the South’s historic gardens and encourage their preservation and restoration so they may enrich the lives of others.

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From Texas to Maryland: Our Southern Garden Odyssey

Over the decades since our founding in 1982, SGHS members have visited scores of landscapes and gardens covering a wide expanse of the southern United States, ranging from Texas to Maryland, Florida to Kentucky and all in between. Some spots have been small and intimate, while others are recognized as internationally important. We are creating and populating a Gardens page as a means of recalling those gardens and their significance with those who joined in, as well as with Society members who were absent. As well, some gardens may be those not yet toured but which we hope very much to add to a future itinerary. An additional goal is that any visitor to our website, member or not, will find these verbal sketches, images, links, and book recommendations a welcome boost to their understanding of the richly vibrant garden history of the American South.

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Ashland | Lexington, Kentucky
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Deemed “the Great Compromiser,” Henry Clay stands high in the pantheon of prominent Antebellum American political leaders. In 2017, Society members visited his homeplace, Ashland, during … Read More

Jane Baber White—A Remembrance
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Jane Baber White died on June 17, 2024, at the age of eighty-four. Her obituary describes her as a “pioneer, innovator, activist, and community bridge-builder.” Southern … Read More

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