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
A Garden Begins Anew
On June 4, 2022, a garden originally planted in the 1840s will open at the Patapsco Female Institute, a school for young women that operated from … Read More
New Society Business
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Due to the Covid pandemic, Southern Garden History Society has not been able to meet in person since 2019 when we met in Birmingham, Alabama. The … Read More
Latest Magnolia – Fall 2021
The Cherokee Garden Library of the Atlanta History Center is the topic of the feature article of this Magnolia. Members may not only be surprised to learn about its vast collections, ongoing acquisitions, collection conservation work, programs, exhibitions, and many partnerships, but also the CGL’s long history and symbiotic relationship with SGHS.
Historic Columbia Greenhouse
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Historic Columbia (HC) on August 4th officially broke ground on a state-of-the-art greenhouse and historically inspired gatehouse on the grounds of the Hampton-Preston Mansion and Gardens. … Read More
Rosemont Plantation Site Gains Acreage
The South Carolina Conservation Bank and the Rosemont Preservation Society have announced an expansion of the land area preserved at the site of Rosemont Plantation in Waterloo, SC. The purchase of several parcels near Lake Greenwood brings the total acreage to 133. At its peak, Rosemont Plantation encompassed around 2,000 acres. Dating to 1790, the manor house was described as a two-and-one-half-story, three-bay, frame and weatherboard, Federal-style house set on a brick foundation. Unfortunately, it was destroyed by fire in 1930, although a few brick ruins and footprints of the garden are still visible along with various ornamental trees and shrubs.
In Memory of Jane Campbell Symmes
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On August 20, 2021, Jane Campbell Symmes, a member of SGHS since its founding in 1982, died at Cedar Lane Farm outside Madison, GA. She and … Read More
Summer 2021 Magnolia (Vol. Vol. XXXIV, no. 1)
With this Magnolia the editors begin a series of articles looking back over the four-decade history of the Restoring Southern Gardens and Landscapes conference. Until 2019, … Read More
Smith Farm and SGHS
Featured Image: Smith Farm, the farmhouse. Photograph courtesy of Atlanta History Center. The August-September issue of Garden & Gun includes an article entitled Harvesting History, written … Read More
200 Years Ago – John James Audubon’s Birds of America
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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
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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 of Delaware’s Longwood Graduate Program.