This year’s event features 5 gardens
From staff reports
This year’s Garden a Day event, celebrating National Gardening week, is being held Monday, June 2 to Friday, June 6, and features gardens on Cat Island, Lady’s Island, and Beaufort.
The Beaufort Garden Club invites the public to visit these gardens, free of charge, from 9 a.m. to noon, rain or shine.
“This year’s theme is Gardeners’ dreams” Garden A Day Chair Kathleen Grewenig said. “One garden is full of color and water, another offers old world charm and ambiance, a third garden has a park-like setting, the fourth provides an evergreen Charleston feel, and Friday’s garden will make you think you are in the Caribbean.”
“We are very excited to continue our three decades of Garden A Day,” Beaufort Garden Club President Sheila Drouin said. “This year’s gardens are breathtaking and we hope they will all inspire Beaufort gardeners to keep dreaming too.”
The Garden a Day schedule can be found on beaufortgardenclub.com and is as follows:
Monday, June 2 – 53 Ridge Road, Cat Island
The Hoffmanns, on Cat Island. Charlotte Hoffmann always wanted a colorful and happy yard, to serve as a party place. Its main feature is an impressive sunken pond off the patio. She also created fun garden art and keeps bees. The property looks out onto the Port Royal Sound.
Tuesday, June 3 – 1206 Pigeon Point Road, Beaufort
The Elliotts purchased the Magnolia Court Inn on Pigeon Point Road a few years ago and have worked tirelessly to bring old world charm and ambiance to their Inn. The garden is filled with interesting plants and outdoor sitting areas. Many of the Inn’s guests have helped in the garden.
Wednesday, June 4 – 65 Sweet Olive, Celadon, Lady’s Island
Aasa Munk, Celadon, began gardening in Michigan and honed her skills designing and creating her gardens in Columbus. After retiring in Beaufort, she started creating an evergreen, cozy, Charleston patio garden. She designed wrought iron gates that are surrounded with unusual species of hollies and camellias and year around color.
Thursday, June 5 – 19 Wade Hampton, Royal Pines, Lady’s Island
The Sobeichs, Royal Pines. Anna said that many, many years ago she was in a garden with long winding paths. That became her dream. She and her husband created 580 feet of path winding through gardens, creating a park like setting. They were on Garden a Day 10 years ago and they were almost in full shade. Hurricane Matthew has changed all that so they had to make some drastic changes with very interesting new plants.
Friday, June 6 – 46 Downing Drive, Pleasant Point, Lady’s Island
The Singers began designing and planting their garden before their house was finished. Melinda dreamed of a house and garden that were like the tropics, with many different species of palms. She even provided a tiny little beach for her grandchildren. The garden path opens on to a lovely lawn looking out over the Beaufort River.
The Beaufort Garden Club, the second oldest garden club in South Carolina, has been holding its Garden A Day event nearly every year in June since 1994. The event draws large crowds from South Carolina and surrounding states. Garden visitors are asked to not bring pets.
