Book Reviews

Southern Garden History Society has been reviewing books about historic gardens and garden restoration since 1984 in its quarterly publication, Magnolia. Members have come to rely on our reviews for learning about books to add to their own libraries or to give as gifts.

We hope you enjoy browsing reviews of new books as we post them online. The reviews are listed below in alphabetical order by author's names. Click on the book title to read the review.

You might also enjoy our listing of notable books.

Cothran, James R: Charleston Gardens and the Landscape Legacy of Loutrel Briggs

Duell, Charles: Middleton Place: A Phoenix Still Rising

Eggener, Keith: Cemeteries

Richardson, Tim: Great Gardens of America

Snell, Sue: The Garden at Charleston: A Bloomsbury Garden through the Seasons

Taylor, Edmund and Moore, Alexander, editors: Selected Letters of Anna Heyward Taylor: South Carolina Artist and World Traveler

Tankard, Judith B.: Gertrude Jekyll and the Country House Garden, From the Archives of Country Life

Turner, Suzanne and Wilson, Joanne Seale, photographs by Paul Hester: Houston's Silent Garden – Glenwood Cemetery, 1871-2009

White, Jane Baber: Once Upon a Time...A Cemetery Story