Gardens

Over the afternoon of Friday, April 11, 2008, Society members explored the University of Georgia (UGA) North Campus during that year’s Athens-based annual meeting.* (A previous … 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

Several Gardens posts have explored the Southern home sites of prominent artists, including Gari Melchers in Falmouth, Virginia, and Eudora Welty in Jackson, Mississippi. This essay … Read More

Lynchburg resident Anne Bethel Bannister Spencer (1882-1975) gained widespread fame not only as a poet and avid gardener but also as a NAACP leader and civil … 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