Today’s post comes from Jacque.
April 14-18 this year (2026) my dear friend Tracy and I took off for a Savannah, Georgia Garden Tour. After returning home I intended to submit a blog about it, because we saw so many interesting Gardens and sites. Hmmm. What happened? So here it is (now that husband’s medical difficulties stabilized, I will start to work on one about Northern Ireland. )
We travelled to Savannah the weekend of April 16-20 to stay just south of the iconic Forsyth Park in a VRBO apartment that was beautiful, and up 3 flights of creaky stairs. Once up there we had a deck shaded by a tulip tree. It was quiet and lovely.
Forsyth Park Fountain
Creaky Stairs
Front of apartment
The garden tour is organized by the North of Gaston (NOG) Garden Club of Savannah. ere is the website. They host one every spring. I see that soon the 2027 tickets will be on sale:
The Garden Club of Savannah NOGS Tour of Hidden Gardens 2026
It attracts thousands of visitors and is walkable. We started with the garden nearest to us at a mansion featured as a law office in the movie Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. It is in reality a single man’s home.
Tracy and I in the first garden
Statue of naked lady
Most of the gardens were walled and very small, with every inch covered in patio or plants. It took two days to get to all thirteen gardens, walking through the graceful neighborhoods to get from one to the other. Unfortunately, the two days of the tour were unusually hot, 94° each day.
Jones Street of the idiom “Keeping up with the Joneses
Mossy Chair
Walled Garden
Relics and cannon ball
The most interesting garden was on Jones Street. The townhouse there had been remodelled and updated in the 1990’s. During the excavations of the garden the relics were brought up: the pottery and glass shards were not a surprise, but the cannon ball held by the red armed figure was a great surprise. They did not know the cannon ball was still live, so the entire street was evacuated. The examination of the cannon ball showed it was from the Civil Ware era. It was not live, so the homeowner kept it as a novelty. The family had remodeled the stable and tiny “Slave Quarters ” above it as a rental.
We dined at a local lunch spot one noon where we found a wedding shower in progress. Everyone attending had to wear a hat. This was my favorite:
What strange things have you found in your yard?
