Magnolia – Winter 2021
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
Nathaniel Russell House Kitchen Project
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
Update on the Hidden Town Project at Old Salem
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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
Magnolia – Fall 2020
The latest issue of Magnolia explores Dumbarton Oaks Garden and Park.
Landscapes of Slavery, Landscapes of Freedom
Image courtesy of the Gibbes Museum of Art – View of Mulberry, House and Street, ca. 1800, By Thomas Coram (American, 1756 – 1811); Oil on … Read More
COVID Disbands the Choir
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Something happened around the first of May and the fog began to lift as well as my spirit and the entries and their titles in my journal. “Yucca Earns its Name-Bright Edge,” “Spreading Goodness,” “Small Wonders,” “Fine Tuning and Max Pruning,” and so on. I don’t think I realized how downhearted I had been.
Landslide 2020: Women Take the Lead
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For years the contributions of American female landscape architects have been recognized, but perhaps never so poignantly as now. During months of lockdown and pandemic-related upheaval, many people across our country have rediscovered the joys inherent in our landscapes, whether publicly (and socially distanced) or privately (safe at home).
The Curious Cushaw
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The holiday dinner menu was classic American – turkey, cornbread dressing, cranberry sauce, yams, various green vegetables, congealed salad, freshly toasted salted pecans, and the family favorite cushaw made sweet and scrumptious with sugar, eggs, butter, vanilla and nutmeg.
Peggy Singlemann Receives Award
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The Richmond, Virginia-based public media program “Virginia Home Grown” recently received a Silver Telly Award for a unique “Tips from Maymont” segment on pond plants. The … Read More
Magnolia – Summer 2020
Within the pages of the Southern Garden History Society’s lastest publication of Magnolia, you will be delighted to find articles such as: Stratford Hall: An Early … Read More
Ladies and Lubbers
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Another beautiful species of Lycoris to surprise Southern gardeners in late summer is L. squamigera, known as the magic lily or naked lady. Hardy farther north than L. radiata, which was described on this website in July, L. squamigera flourishes from Maine to Texas, but needs some winter chilling to bloom well.
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