Ring in the New Year with the members of the Seabrook Island Garden Club. The next Meeting is scheduled on Friday, January 8, 2016 at 9:30 AM at the Seabrook Island Lake House.
This is a great time to come in from the cold and see what’s going on in your community. Please join your neighbors and friends while enjoying a cup of coffee and the culinary treats routinely provided by the members. The club offers interesting speakers on numerous and timely horticultural and ecologically related topics. The meetings are also a perfect opportunity to share your gardening interest and expertise or simply make a new friend!
On January 8th, we welcome Tom Johnson. Tom is a lifelong horticulturist and was raised on a truck farm in Middle Georgia. After graduating college, Tom moved to Atlanta and worked for Al Simpson and Company as an Area Supervisor. When President Carter built his Presidential Library in Atlanta, he asked Tom to help design and oversee the gardens. Tom was able to apprentice under Kinsako Nakane, the world renowned Japanese architect, and later under his son Shiro. After fifteen years with the Carter Presidential Center, Tom moved back home to accept the position as a horticulturist with The American Camellia Society. During the next eight years, he traveled the “camellia belt” lecturing about Camellias and helping people learn to grow them. Currently, Tom is Director of Gardens and Horticulture at Magnolia Gardens. His main job is to restore the gardens to the vision the Reverend John Drayton had when he first began to design them for his homesick bride in the mid-1800’s.
For information on membership please contact: Cheryl Schumann Email: cschumann@seabrookislandrealestate.com
Submitted by Alberta Barron