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Inside a Charleston Garden

An antebellum garden with pathways to the past

December/January 2015

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

Photo: Gately Williams

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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.

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