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New book details historic Georgia gardens

Being released April 15 by the University of Georgia Press, Seeking Eden: A Collection of Georgia’s Historic Gardens, promotes an awareness of, and appreciation for, Georgia’s rich garden heritage.

Updated and expanded here are the stories of nearly 30 designed landscapes first identified in the early 20h-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 21-century appearance, as documented in photographs.

Dating from the mid-18th to the early 20th centuries, these publicly and privately owned gardens include 19th-century parterres, Colonial Revival gardens, Country Place-era landscapes, rock gardens, historic town squares, college campuses and an urban conservation garden.

Book proceeds from Seeking Eden will go toward the Garden Club of Georgia’s Historic Landscape Preservation Grant program.