Zinnias
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
Eudora Welty’s Mother Inspired Her Love Of Camellias–And You Can Still Visit Their Garden
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
Oakland Cemetery’s Summer Bulbs
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
Eric Jackson and Forestry in Old Salem
“Land and ecosystem preservation inspired my love of horticulture when I realized just how fundamental plants are to our existence on earth, to the health and … Read More
Elizabeth Lawrence Gardens
Elizabeth Lawrence (1904-1985) is one of the South’s best-known garden writers. Her book, A Southern Garden: A Handbook for the Middle South (University of North Carolina … Read More
State Ambassador’s Hills and Dales -LaGrange, Georgia Visit
Feature photo: Hills and Dales, courtesy of Adam Martin On almost the spookiest day of the year, October 30, the Southern Garden History Society invited local … Read More
A Garden Begins Anew
On June 4, 2022, a garden originally planted in the 1840s will open at the Patapsco Female Institute, a school for young women that operated from … Read More
Smith Farm and SGHS
Featured Image: Smith Farm, the farmhouse. Photograph courtesy of Atlanta History Center. The August-September issue of Garden & Gun includes an article entitled Harvesting History, written … Read More
Thomas Jefferson’s Vegetable Garden at Monticello
Peggy Cornett is the Curator of Plants at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, where she has worked for more than 38 years. She holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Delaware’s Longwood Graduate Program.
Garden & Gun Features Historic Winston-Salem Gardens
Garden & Gun Senior Editor CJ Lotz attended the Restoring Southern Gardens and Landscapes Conference in Old Salem in 2017. That weekend visit made her want to write about the wealth of public gardens available to visitors in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Garden & Gun usually covers private gardens, but Lotz wanted to highlight public gardens as a creative way to cover travel in the South for garden lovers. During the pandemic, it worked out well to bring her mom Janice for some outdoor time together.