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.
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 to visitors in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Garden & Gun usually covers private gardens, but Lotz wanted to highlight public gardens as a creative way to cover travel in the South for garden lovers. During the pandemic, it worked out well to bring her mom Janice for some outdoor time together.
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 and farming. Living in Asheville, North Carolina, Chris has gathered and grown more than 150 named varieties of this superfood and stored them at a local climate-controlled seed storage facility.
Once in a blue moon, a person comes along in your life that epitomizes kindness, graciousness, intelligence, dedication, and leadership. Our Southern Garden History Society founding … Read More
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
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
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
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 new shed for our tools and equipment. The funds for the new shed came from BREC.
The latest Magnolia publication featuring Mount Vernon’s very own Dean Norton is now available. If you are a member, your beautiful printed copy will be arriving … Read More
Southern Garden History Society’s longtime friend Suzanne Turner is working on a team of professionals on the Nathaniel Russell House Kitchen Project of the Historic Charleston Foundation. … Read More
Featured image: Rena Hill, resident of Happy Hill. Photo Credit: Across the Creek Collection, Old Salem, Inc., Courtesy of Sam McMurray This article is an … Read More
The latest issue of Magnolia explores Dumbarton Oaks Garden and Park.