Over the decades since our founding in 1982, SGHS members have visited scores of landscapes and gardens covering a wide expanse of the southern United States, ranging from Texas to Maryland, Florida to Kentucky and all in between. Some spots have been small and intimate, while others are recognized as internationally important. We are creating and populating this page as a means of recalling those gardens and their significance with those who joined in, as well as with Society members who were absent. As well, some gardens may be those not yet toured but which we hope very much to add to a future itinerary. An additional goal is that any visitor to our website, member or not, will find these verbal sketches, images, links, and book recommendations a welcome boost to their understanding of the richly vibrant garden history of the American South.
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December 7, 2025
Dumbarton Oaks | Georgetown, D.C.
This essay marks the fiftieth installation of a series of posts written for the SGHS website’s Gardens page, the first...
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November 28, 2025
Charleston Gardens | Charleston, South Carolina
The location of two annual meetings, Charleston has also drawn the repeated attention of Magnolia contributors while being the central...
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November 19, 2025
Hollywood Cemetery | Richmond, Virginia
In days long-ago, this author was a history student at Richmond’s Virginia Commonwealth University, and visits to nearby Hollywood Cemetery...
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November 5, 2025
Airlie Gardens | Wilmington, N. C.
April 2024 found Society members in North Carolina’s main port city, home of the Battleship North Carolina, and for a...
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October 28, 2025
Natchez Landscapes | Natchez, Mississippi
Over two decades have passed since members gathered in Natchez in 2002 to celebrate the Society’s twentieth anniversary. More amazingly,...
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October 19, 2025
Texas German Landscapes New Braunfels Region
Previous Gardens page essays have discussed a large group of designed Southern landscapes. Taking a different direction, this post will...
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October 12, 2025
Gunston Hall | Fairfax County, Virginia
Less famous than nearby Mount Vernon or Monticello one-hundred miles distant, Northern Virginia’s Gunston Hall nonetheless offers a rewarding opportunity...
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October 3, 2025
University of Georgia (Part Two: post-Civil War to Modern Times) | Athens, Georgia
The previous Gardens page post discussed the early days of the University of Georgia (UGA) campus, focusing on the quadrangle...
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September 22, 2025
University of Georgia, North Campus | Athens, Georgia
College and University campuses are some of the most visited and widely-recognized designed landscapes across the globe. Readers know, of...
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September 16, 2025
Sarah P. Duke Gardens | Durham, North Carolina
Growing up only five miles away from the Sarah P. Duke Gardens (SPDG), this writer found the site an easy-to-reach...
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