Roses, Chestina’s favorite, climb over trellises and fences in the lower garden. Camellias and pansies abound in winter spring brings larkspur, hollyhocks, and snapdragons followed by summer phlox, zinnias, and blue salvia, ending with fall asters, chrysanthemums, and spider lilies. Restored with heirloom plants, it is typical of the regional style of the day with garden “rooms” and defined areas separated by arbors and trellises.Īs designed by Chestina, the garden plan insured that something would be in bloom each season.
The garden winds through three-quarters of an acre in the historic Belhaven neighborhood. When visitors tour the garden today, a sense of wonder is visible again as women are on their hands and knees planting, watering, and weeding to maintain this 20th century garden as authentically as possible. I think the artist – in every sense of the word – learns from what’s individual that’s where the wonder expresses itself.”
People like to classify, categorize, and that takes away from creativity. The absolute contact between hand and the earth, the intimacy of it, that is the instinct of a gardener. We used to get down on our hands and knees. In a conversation with Haltom prior to the restoration, Welty expressed her views of gardening and creativity: “I think that people have lost the working garden.
These women, who have named themselves “The Cereus Weeders” in honor of Welty’s beloved night blooming cereus, have carefully restored the garden to the 1925-1945 period when Eudora Welty worked at her mother’s side planting, watering, and weeding. Today it remains a labor of love for garden restoration consultant Susan Haltom and a committed core of volunteers. The garden at the Eudora Welty house, “my mother’s garden,” was a labor of love designed and created in 1925 by Chestina Welty.
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