Seeking Eden : A Collection of Georgia's Historic Gardens

Seeking Eden promotes an awareness of, and appreciation for, Georgia’s rich garden heritage. Updated and expanded here are the stories of nearly thirty designed landscapes first identified in the early twentieth-century publication Garden History of Georgia, 1733–1933.

Seeking Eden promotes an awareness of, and appreciation for, Georgia’s rich garden heritage. Updated and expanded here are the stories of nearly thirty designed landscapes first identified in the early twentieth-century publication Garden History of Georgia, 1733–1933. Seeking Eden records each garden’s evolution and history as well as each garden’s current early twenty-first-century appearance, as beautifully documented in photographs. Dating from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, these publicly and privately owned gardens include nineteenth-century parterres, Colonial Revival gardens, Country Place–era landscapes, rock gardens, historic town squares, college campuses, and an urban conservation garden. Seeking Eden explores the significant impact of the women who envisioned and nurtured many of these special places; the role of professional designers, including J. Neel Reid, Philip Trammel Shutze, William C. Pauley, Robert B. Cridland, the Olmsted Brothers, Hubert Bond Owens, and Clermont Lee; and the influence of the garden club movement in Georgia in the early twentieth century. FEATURED GARDENS:Andrew Low House and Garden | SavannahAshland Farm | FlintstoneBarnsley Gardens | AdairsvilleBarrington Hall and Bulloch Hall | RoswellBattersby-Hartridge Garden | SavannahBeech Haven | AthensBerry College: Oak Hill and House o’ Dreams | Mount BerryBradley Olmsted Garden | ColumbusCator Woolford Gardens | AtlantaCoffin-Reynolds Mansion | Sapelo IslandDunaway Gardens | Newnan vicinityGovernor’s Mansion | AtlantaHills and Dales Estate | LaGrangeLullwater Conservation Garden | AtlantaMillpond Plantation | Thomasville vicinityOakton | MariettaRock City Gardens | Lookout MountainSalubrity Hall | AugustaSavannah Squares | SavannahStephenson-Adams-Land Garden | AtlantaSwan House | AtlantaUniversity of Georgia: North Campus, the President’s House and Garden, and the Founders Memorial Garden | AthensValley View | Cartersville vicinityWormsloe and Wormsloe State Historic Site | Savannah vicinityZahner-Slick Garden | Atlanta