The Hoffmann Garden, June 2
This year’s Garden a Day event, celebrating National Gardening week, is June 2 to June 6, and features gardens on Cat Island, Lady’s Island, and Beaufort. The Beaufort Garden Club invites the public to visit these gardens, free of charge, from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM, rain or shine.
The Garden a Day schedule can be found on beaufortgardenclub.com and is as follows:
Monday, June 2 – 53 Ridge Road, Cat Island
Tuesday, June 3 – 1206 Pigeon Point, Beaufort
Wednesday, June 4 – 65 Sweet Olive, Celadon, Lady’s Island
Thursday, June 5 – 19 Wade Hampton, Royal Pines, Lady’s Island
Friday, June 6 – 46 Downing Drive, Pleasant Point, Lady’s Island
“This year’s theme is Gardeners’ dreams” said Kathleen
The Elliott Garden, June 3
Grewenig, Garden A Day Chair. “One garden is full of color and water, another offers old world charm and ambiance, a third garden has a park-like setting, the fourth provides an evergreen Charleston feel and Friday’s garden will make you think you are in the Caribbean.”
The Munk Garden, June 4
“We are very excited to continue our three decades of Garden A Day,” said Sheila Drouin, President, The Beaufort Garden Club. “This year’s gardens are breathtaking and we hope they will all inspire Beaufort gardeners to keep dreaming too.”
The Beaufort Garden Club, the second oldest garden club in South Carolina, has been holding its Garden A Day event nearly every year in June since 1994.The event draws large crowds from South Carolina and surrounding states.
Garden visitors are asked to not bring pets.
ABOUT THE GARDENS
The theme of Garden a Day 2025 is “Gardener’s Dreams.”
The Sobiech Garden, June 5
Each of the gardeners participating in this year’s event shared a similar thought – they all dreamed about gardens they wanted to create.
June 2 – The Hoffmanns, on Cat Island. Charlotte Hoffmann always wanted a colorful and happy yard, to serve as a party place. Its main feature is an impressive sunken pond off the patio. She also created fun garden art and keeps bees. The property looks out to Port Royal Sound.
June 3 –The Elliotts purchased the Magnolia Court Inn on Pigeon Point Rd a few years ago and have worked tirelessly to bring old world charm and ambiance to their Inn. The garden is filled with interesting plants and outdoor sitting areas. Many of the Inn’s guests have helped in the garden.
June 4 – Aasa Munk, Celadon, began gardening in Michigan and honed her skills designing and creating her gardens in Columbus. After retiring in Beaufort, she started creating an evergreen, cozy, Charleston patio garden. She designed wrought iron gates that are surrounded with unusual species of hollies and camellias and year around color.
The Singer Garden, June 6
June 5 – The Sobeichs, Royal Pines. Anna said that many, many years ago she was in a garden with long winding paths. That became her dream, she and husband created 580 feet of path winding through gardens, creating a park like setting. They were on Garden a day 10 years ago and they were almost in full shade. Hurricane Matthew has changed all that so they had to make some drastic changes with very interesting new plants.
June 6 – 46 Downing Drive. The Singers began designing and planting their garden before their house was finished. Melinda dreamed of a house and garden that were like the tropics, with many different species of palms. She even provided a tiny little beach for her grandchildren. The garden path opens on to a lovely lawn looking out over the Beaufort River.
