Elaine and Alice Do Charleston: Mount Pleasant; Boone Hill Plantation and Gardens
Mount Pleasant is east of Charleston across the Arthur Ravenel, Jr. Bridge. The former John P. Grace Memorial Bridge built in 1929 across the Cooper River had become insufficient for traffic and in need of major repair and was replaced in 2005 and renamed for South...
Elaine and Alice Do Charleston: Cypress Gardens, Mepkin Abbey
Today we struck out for Cypress Gardens, a short 24 miles from town. The swamp garden was created where Dean Hall rice plantation once existed. Where the other plantations we visited were covered with oak trees, this garden was, as its name implied, water and...
Update on Keeping Your Cactus Warm
I wrote about heating the greenhouse during the winter back on January 15, 2015, “Keeping Your Cactus Warm.” At the beginning of this winter Bill installed a small natural gas heater in an attempt to bring down the electric bill generated by the two small electric...
Elaine and Alice Do Charleston: Middleton Place; Magnolia Plantation
Our first stop was Middleton Place, a short drive from downtown. According to the Fodor’s Travel book on Charleston, Middleton Place is America’s oldest landscaped gardens, having been planted in 1741. I will have to admit I was expecting the house to be more on the...
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