A bird’s eye view of the historic Pineapple Gates House in Charleston, South Carolina.
photo: Gately Williams
The formal garden was restored to the orginial circa 1818 designs.
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Author Margaret Bradham Thornton in her garden.
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The property’s namesake pineapple-topped gates.
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Oyster shells and boxwoods form a whimsical pattern in the historic space.
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The wrought-iron garden gates.
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A lawn sculpture in the formal garden.
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Thornton in front of the restored folly.
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Guests can access the middle garden through doorways cut through tall hedges at the rear of the formal garden.
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The house’s elegantly unassuming entrance.
photo: Gately Williams
