Gardens

The Natchez Landscapes post of October 28, 2025, recalled annual meetings held in this famous city on the river, the first in 1984 and the second … Read More

Society members have toured gardens across a wide span of Louisiana, beginning at St. Francisville in 1991, then New Orleans in 2004, Baton Rouge in 2011, … Read More

London, Ontario, recently popped into the conversation while this writer was enjoying coffee with a Canadian friend. That, in turn, was a reminder that relatively few … Read More

The Gardens post of March 15, 2026, explored that segment of Olmsted’s 1853 visit to the South that included his travels down the Carolina and Georgia … 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