Past Events

Visit refined gardens of Aiken, SC and our organically managed lily farm and nursery.  Fundraiser tour for Garden Club of SC -- we'll be dolled up and of course have our lily farm and connoisseurs nursery open.

Mixing old farming with new scientific understandings, we use soil building plants, composting, no-till gardening to constantly build our soils.  Mixed into our organically managed lily farm fields, veggies, flowers and fruit trees  do work -- and add taste and food to the life of our farm (and our farm crew and family). In our garden design business, we use many of the same techniques to build soils  in backyards, tiny courtyards, urban parking lots and even rooftop gardens.  Join…

Speakers include Tom Johnson of Magnolia Gardens and Jim Kibbler who's new book details one of the south's oldest nurseries.
Best of all, you get to see the extensive renovations of Columbia's Hampton Preston Gardens. This 4 acre garden features a fountain and gazebo envisioned by Jenks and spectacular new plantings of Evan Clements and Keith Merns.

Jenks Farmer challenges and southern garden design. He’s been a leader in public and private gardens for the past 30 years. Jenks will share photos spanning 30 years of design work. And address how his style and garden design in general has changed. From 80’s style, perennial border artifice to more relaxed styles incorporating heirloom plants and rural landscapes, to todays sustainable, naturalistic meadows, one thing has been consistent; he seeks and insist on the best preforming plants for any…