Gardens

In his Summer 2007 Magnolia article “Beyond Boxwood and the Herb Garden” Davyd Foard Hood observed that Manteo’s Elizabethan Gardens joins several other twentieth-century Southern designed … Read More

When SGHS held its New Orleans annual meeting in 2004 we were already marking twenty-one years since 1983 and the first such gathering in Atlanta. The … Read More

SGHS members have visited Savannah twice for annual meetings, the first occasion coming in 1989 and the second in 2014. Surely each of us came away … Read More

This essay marks the fiftieth installation of a series of posts written for the SGHS website’s Gardens page, the first example having appeared on November 4, … Read More

The location of two annual meetings, Charleston has also drawn the repeated attention of Magnolia contributors while being the central focus of two books written by … 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