Savannah Secret & Public Gardens
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Savannah Secret & Public Gardens
By James A.D. Cox
Hardcover, 127 pp
From the Publisher:
To garden was no small part of James Edward Oglethorpe’s solution to moderated English reform. As philanthropy, imperialism, and religious freedom all came together in 18th-century Georgia, gardens of all manner were created in Oglethorpe’s Savannah plan.
Georgia, the last of England’s colonial experiments in America, has faced in its 266-year history the uncertainties of Spanish incursions, Indian pacification, a revolution, conflagrations, a civil war, economic panic, and yellow fever epidemics. One recurring legacy of “The Four Horsemen” in Savannah was the determination by a citizenry to be surrounded by beauty in spite of adversity. Today this legacy is manifested in the public squares and secret gardens of historic Savannah.
The exuberant planting scheme of the William Scarbrough House garden with its extensive herbaceous borders and monumental urns and the diminutive perfections of the Margaret Prindible House garden illustrate the gardener’s creative palette with large or small areas. The complementing container plantings in the garden of the Frederick Ball House and the sensitive window box treatment of the Beach Institute Cottage illustrate the gardener’s attention to the smallest detail. The photographs of these secret gardens impart that individual optimism and triumph of hope flourishing in Savannah into the second millennium.
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