Kiawah... Beautiful City Of Charleston Southern Charm

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Kiawah is not far from the beautiful city of Charleston . visited the website of the Historic Charleston Foundation  booked tickets for a guided walking tour in the morning and an afternoon garden tour.

Charlestonians are clearly has the most wonderful  house- and garden-proud and every home, whether large or small, is graced with greenery.

No possible detail is overlooked. Here the front steps are decorated with creeping fig vine (ficus pumila) that, according to our guide, needs to be trimmed weekly during the summer on account of its rapid growth.

The scent of Confederate jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides) is inescapable in Charleston during the Spring. Its vines flow over walls and around front doors.

Not even garages are neglected when it comes to enhancing the exteriors with flowering vines.

  beautiful garage really too lovely even to be called a garage.

photographs were not permitted inside the private gardens.

Charleston gardens well the plantings on and around the exteriors of the houses,  English cottage garden! My kind of garden employs a lot of boxwood, neatly trimmed hedges corralling tidy plants, trellis, tuteurs and strategically placed topiary. Whatever the medium, I love topiary.

Fortunately, you got to see to believe it.