Magnolia – Summer 2022
Our Summer 2022 Magnolia underscores how Southern garden history not only looks closely at the American South, but also takes us worldwide and into wild places … Read More
Peggy Singlemann Hosts Virginia Home Grown
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Peggy Singlemann is the host of the television series Virginia Home Grown. She serves on the board of directors for Southern Garden History Society. Peggy was … Read More
Oakland Cemetery’s Summer Bulbs
Late July inevitably guarantees heat, humidity, and afternoon thunderstorms across the South. Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery still has plenty of colors to be appreciated by anyone willing … Read More
Eric Jackson and Forestry in Old Salem
“Land and ecosystem preservation inspired my love of horticulture when I realized just how fundamental plants are to our existence on earth, to the health and … Read More
Elizabeth Lawrence Gardens
Elizabeth Lawrence (1904-1985) is one of the South’s best-known garden writers. Her book, A Southern Garden: A Handbook for the Middle South (University of North Carolina … Read More
2022 Spring Issue of Magnolia
The Spring 2022 issue of Magnolia features the Society’s 38th annual meeting, and the first in-person gathering of SGHS members since the 2019 annual meeting in … Read More
38th SGHS Annual Meeting
From April 22nd to 24th, Society members convened in Alexandria, VA, to participate in the 38th annual meeting. This meeting is the fourth time visiting George … Read More
Southern Garden History Society Turns Forty
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Flora Ann Bynum, William Lanier Hunt, and John B. Flowers III, all from the great state of North Carolina, started up the Southern Garden History Society … Read More
2022 Winter (Vol. XXXIV, no. 3)
Photo credit: “Washington as a Farmer at Mount Vernon,” by Junius Brutus Stearns, 1851. The Winter 2022 issue of Magnolia features recent landscape restoration efforts underway in the … Read More
In Print
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The Northwest Gardens of Lord & Schryver, by Valencia Libby | Oregon State University Press, 2021 | Published in cooperation with the Lord & Schryver Conservancy … Read More
Garden Club of America Awards
Feature image courtesy of Thomas Jefferson Foundation The Southern Garden History Society extends a hearty “congratulations!” to Peggy Cornett and Judith B. Tankard for being awarded … Read More
Robert Hicks 1951-2022
Robert Hicks, who sat on the Board of Directors of the Southern Garden History Society, died at home near Franklin, Tennessee, on Friday, February 25, 2022. … Read More