The Beaufort Garden Club
90 Years of Making Beaufort Beautiful
The Beaufort Garden Club has been around for a long time—since 1934, to be exact. A group of civic-minded ladies amid the Great Depression decided they wanted to do something beautiful for their little town of Beaufort, South Carolina.
The original group all lived on The Point in the venerable homes that were built before the Civil War. But these ladies didn’t just sip tea and eat cheese straws, they went out and got their fingernails dirty! They started planting flowers and shrubs around town, and even planted the line of Sabal palmetto palms, South Carolina’s state tree, on Highway 21 to welcome folks from Gardens Corner to Beaufort. Many of those palms are still there today, having survived numerous hurricanes.