Gardens

Society members walked about what was then known as Peckerwood Garden during the Sunday tour of the March 1999 Houston annual meeting. What they encountered was … Read More

Society members visiting Kenmore during the 2005 Fredericksburg annual meeting found a site steeped in the lore of both the Washington family and of the Garden … Read More

Southern Garden History Society members have visited the Afton Villa gardens during two annual meetings. The first occasion came during the 1991 gathering in St. Francisville … Read More

Many readers know the importance of Old Salem as the birthplace of the Southern Garden History Society and for decades its Winston-Salem headquarters. Over the years, … Read More

Dating to the 1730s, the gardens at Crowfield north of Charleston once ranked among the finest in colonial South Carolina. Aided by period documents, twentieth-century studies, … Read More

In early May 1994, Society members gathered in Williamsburg for our twelfth annual meeting, the first such event held there. Now a second Williamsburg meeting is … 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