Gardens

Our September 11, 2026, Gardens post featured an 1850s A. J. Davis grounds plan showing a botanical garden within the overall UNC site. Yet, nothing of … Read More

In planning an annual meeting based in the Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh area, organizers will want to consider a tour of Chapel Hill’s historic university … Read More

Several Society annual meetings have combined visits to remarkable landscapes with equally remarkable weather events. Clearly recalled, for example, was a June 1987 evening when lightning … Read More

The Gardens post of February 2, 2026, began a review of Frederick Law Olmsted’s (FLO) landscape observations made during his journeys across the American South as … Read More

The Winter 2026 issue of Magnolia features a tribute to Past-President Catherine Howett, FASLA, whose death in November 2025 marked a sad moment for Society members, … 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