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ARRIVED 🌱 • Fun to revisit the annual meeting

ARRIVED 🌱
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Fun to revisit the annual meeting in the latest edition of Magnolia!
Scroll to see @susan_haltom holding her Certificate of Merit award for her service to the Society. 💚

PASS ALONG • A very Southern gardeners tradition

PASS ALONG
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A very Southern gardeners tradition is sharing plants!
This fabulous towering ginger or butterfly lily came to my garden from fellow gardener and 19th Century home dweller Ruth Ellen Calhoun of Natchez Mississippi.
This example towers over my garden, emulating the towering gentility of her former mistress and gardener.
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I believe the proper name for this is Hedychium Ayo
Ruth Ellen called it a yellow ginger.
@jeffersonmansell please give this great Southern lady my love.

FORMOSA • Love the towering architecture in the

FORMOSA
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Love the towering architecture in the garden that is Formosa Lily
Thank you @jmikerushing for sharing!

Looking forward to all of the autumn leaves. There

Looking forward to all of the autumn leaves.
There is something very satisfying about cleaning them out of the garden.
Not to mention that they arrive with cooler weather!
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Scenes from the beautiful gardens of Bunny William

Scenes from the beautiful gardens of Bunny Williams and John Roselli in Connecticut.
I know it’s not Southern, but it was very inspiring to this Southern Gardener.
Thanks to Bunny and the Garden Conservancy for this opportunity!
@bunnywilliams_interiordesign
@bunnywilliamshome
@bunnys_eye
@thegardenconservancy
@southern_trouvaille

MORNING RESPITE 🌱 I love a morning walk in an e

MORNING RESPITE
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I love a morning walk in an established neighborhood where folks love to garden.
Good morning from Montgomery Alabama’s beautiful Rosemont neighborhood.
Only a couple of the wonderfully maintained garden features shown here!
The loveseat topiary made me grin!

BASTILLE DAY 🌱 “On bastille day we are remind

BASTILLE DAY 🌱
“On bastille day we are reminded of something we saw at our annual meeting. This KEY to the Bastille prison was gifted to GW by Lafayette. It hangs in the main hall Mt Vernon… What an extraordinary gift and symbol of liberty. “
Thomas Baker

Can’t you just smell the beauty 🌱 #southernga

Can’t you just smell the beauty 🌱
#southerngardens
#southernsummer
#crinumlily

FINALLY RAIN 🌱 Clipped just before our dry gar

FINALLY RAIN
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Clipped just before our dry gardens received a much needed rain.
The smell of the flowers and the sound of the rain are intoxicating.

Spring nights in the South are a gift to us all!

Spring nights in the South are a gift to us all!
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Many of you will remember touring the restoration

Many of you will remember touring the restoration of the Lanier home on the mountaintop while in Birmingham in 2019.
@alleenwcater had a lot of positive feedback on the Birmingham meeting and tours while attending the recent Mount Vernon meeting, including many questions about the progress that The Laniers have made on their Herculean project.
Alleen reached out to Bruce this week and he sent the photo above of the garden beside the tea house and had this to say,
“We are comfortably settled in now. We moved in before Thanksgiving 2019, so we were fortunate to get to spend a lot of time together with the kids in the spring of 2020. I almost feel guilty about being that comfortable during quarantine. Almost.”
@brucelanier went on to say,
“I actually learned during quarantine that I really enjoy gardening. I had never really tried it seriously, but (mostly out of necessity) I took it up. I started a vegetable garden in the ruins of the greenhouse (which is entering Year 3 of its newfound use as a muscadine trellis). My neighbor and I are also about to start our 3rd season growing sweet potatoes on the terraces, an effort that we wrap up with a harvest party on a Saturday around Halloween that I will try to remember to invite you to (people will do anything for a Bloody Mary, particularly during a pandemic, and that appears to include helping you cultivate tubers).
We are working on the last phases of major yard renovations. That part might make your people (SGHS) cringe a little, but we are trying to be tasteful as I feel my way through garden design.”
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Seems that the Laniers know us pretty well as SGHS partiers, drinkers and, oh yes, gardeners!
I see an Alabama gathering on the Halloween horizon!
Our thanks again to the Laniers for their stewardship and preservation work in Birmingham and for their interest and support of the Southern Garden History Society!
@brucelanier see you one Saturday before Halloween!

PLANT A TREE 🌱 It’s Arbor Day! Planting tree

PLANT A TREE
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It’s Arbor Day!
Planting trees is always a good idea!

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