Inside a Charleston Garden

A bird’s eye view of the historic Pineapple Gates House in Charleston, South Carolina.

The formal garden was restored to the orginial circa 1818 designs.

Author Margaret Bradham Thornton in her garden.

The property’s namesake pineapple-topped gates.

Oyster shells and boxwoods form a whimsical pattern in the historic space.

The wrought-iron garden gates.

A lawn sculpture in the formal garden.

Thornton in front of the restored folly.

Guests can access the middle garden through doorways cut through tall hedges at the rear of the formal garden.

The house’s elegantly unassuming entrance.