Gardens

In days long-ago, this author was a history student at Richmond’s Virginia Commonwealth University, and visits to nearby Hollywood Cemetery offered bucolic relief from the grind … Read More

April 2024 found Society members in North Carolina’s main port city, home of the Battleship North Carolina, and for a few weeks each year, the state’s … Read More

Over two decades have passed since members gathered in Natchez in 2002 to celebrate the Society’s twentieth anniversary. More amazingly, it has been forty-one years since … Read More

In 2014, a professor encouraged me to submit a scholarship application to attend the annual meeting of the Southern Garden History Society (SGHS), in Savannah, Georgia. … Read More

Recently our new Southern Garden History Society administrator Aimee Bonnette Moreau shared a photo of zinnias just cut from the garden of Randy Harelson and Richard … Read More

Southern Living magazine featured Eudora Welty’s camellias in the January/February 2023 issue. Read the story here by award-winning author Valerie Fraser Luesse, with photographs by Ngoc … Read More

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

“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 (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