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.
200 Years Ago – John James Audubon’s Birds of America
Two hundred years ago in the summer of 1821, John James Audubon arrived in what is now St. Francisville, Louisiana, to work as a teacher for … Read More
Book Review: Beauty of the Wild: A Life Designing Landscapes Inspired by Nature
Beauty of the Wild: A Life Designing Landscapes Inspired by Nature by Darrel Morrison, FASLA Published by Library of American Landscape History, 2021 The creative … Read More
Thomas Jefferson’s Vegetable Garden at Monticello
Peggy Cornett is the Curator of Plants at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, where she has worked for more than 38 years. She holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University... Read More
Garden & Gun Features Historic Winston-Salem Gardens
Garden & Gun Senior Editor CJ Lotz attended the Restoring Southern Gardens and Landscapes Conference in Old Salem in 2017. That weekend visit made her want to write about the wealth of public gardens available... Read More
The Whole Okra: A Seed to Stem Celebration, by Chris Smith
A native of the UK, seed saver, permaculturist, and writer Chris Smith is obsessed with okra. He is the executive director of the Utopian Seed Project, a crop-trailing non-profit working to support diversity in food... Read More
Heirloom Watermelons
Grappling with the hot, sultry days of summer leads many Southerners to find respite lying beneath a ceiling fan on a screened porch, swimming in a … Read More
Remembering Cornelia Oberlander
Cornelia Oberlander, pioneering landscape architect and visionary, dies at 99 years. Although her long career was centered in Canada, Oberlander was an inspirational environmentalist for the … Read More
Magnolia 2021 Spring Issue
In the latest Magnolia, available for viewing online now and arriving at your mailbox soon, learn about the many lives of the Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens … Read More
The Kitchen Garden at Magnolia Mound – by Camm Morton
Magnolia Mound’s Kitchen Garden has been a project of the Louisiana Master Gardeners of Baton Rouge for over 15 years. It has seen many changes in those years, the most recent of which is a... Read More
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