The Elizabethan Gardens | Manteo, North Carolina
In his Summer 2007 Magnolia article “Beyond Boxwood and the Herb Garden” Davyd Foard Hood observed that Manteo’s Elizabethan Gardens joins several other twentieth-century Southern designed … Read More
New Orleans Botanical Garden at City Park | New Orleans, Louisiana
When SGHS held its New Orleans annual meeting in 2004 we were already marking twenty-one years since 1983 and the first such gathering in Atlanta. The … Read More
Savannah Town Plan | Savannah, Georgia
SGHS members have visited Savannah twice for annual meetings, the first occasion coming in 1989 and the second in 2014. Surely each of us came away … Read More
Dumbarton Oaks | Georgetown, D.C.
This essay marks the fiftieth installation of a series of posts written for the SGHS website’s Gardens page, the first example having appeared on November 4, … Read More
Charleston Gardens | Charleston, South Carolina
The location of two annual meetings, Charleston has also drawn the repeated attention of Magnolia contributors while being the central focus of two books written by … Read More
Restoring Southern Gardens and Landscapes (RSGL) Conference Proceedings
Featured image courtesy of Susan Haltom Visitors to the Events page now have access to three publications that reflect the high quality of the RSGL conference, … Read More
Garden Restoration at Stratford Hall
“In Stratford Hall: An Early Garden Restoration Revisited” Will Rieley, PLA details a project that concluded with returning a significant section of a Colonial Revival garden to a well-informed eighteenth-century configuration. The setting was the