Charleston, SC Open Day

Sat, Jun 2, 2018
10:00 AM- 4:00 PM

 

Since 2013, we have partnered with the Charleston Horticultural Society and Spoleto Festival USA to bring you this Open Day. One of our most highly attended and popular Open Days, it requires pre-registration through Spoleto Festival USA. Please go to their website to purchase tickets for this Open Day: https://spoletousa.org/events/behind-the-garden-gate/.

Please note: Admission to this Open Day is $75 for all gardens on this date only. Pre-purchased Open Days admission tickets through the Garden Conservancy are not accepted during the Charleston Open Days. If you have any questions, please call 1-888-842-2442. (Monday-Friday 9 a.m. tp 5 p.m est) 

**If you are a ticket holder in need of maps and directions to gardens please contact Spoleto Box office: (843) 579-3100 or they can be picked up at 2 George Street, Charleston, at the Gillard Center, at the Spoleto Kiosk on day of the tour. 

 

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  Garden at James Vanderhorst House

  The James Vanderhorst House was built circa 1770 and one of its most notable owners was Alfred Hutty, the early twentieth-century artist who made this his winter home...

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  Garden of the Jackson-Watt House

  The home was built in 1794 and was owned by the same family for about fifty years until 2016 when the house underwent a complete restoration from ground to roof...

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  William Gatewood House Garden

  Circa 1843. This handsome three-storied masonry house is one of Charleston’s most important Greek Revival dwellings. The architect was Col. E.B. White.

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  Garden at George Mathews House

  The owners are garden enthusiasts, and the husband designed the garden rooms surrounding the 1743 house to be compatible with the early Charleston architecture and southern climate...

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  Garden of the Benjamin Phillips House

  The Benjamin Phillips House was restored by the current owners in 1987 and at the time, there was no garden, only a paved parking area...

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  Mrs. Whaley's Garden

  This simple frame Charleston single house was purchased by attorney Ben Scott Whaley and Emily Whaley in 1938....

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  Private Residence - Legare Street

  The focus of the garden renovation was to order the existing, undefined site and create distinct garden rooms. These individual spaces respond to the house, circulation, and provide for outdoor living...

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  Garden at William C. Bee House

  This property (c. 1835) was built by William C. Bee. Bee was the owner of the leading blockade running business in Charleston during the Civil War...