Last updated on 26 September 08

Middleton Place Garden

5.0/5 (1 ratings)

Photograph © Pat Hartley
Photograph © Pat Hartley
Photograph © Pat Hartley
Photograph © Pat Hartley
Copyright © Middleton Place
Photograph © Joy's Idea Garden

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One of the oldest surviving gardens in America, Middleton Place was made in the 1740s, when the Forest and Augustan styles were favoured in England. The design has both formal axes and an empirical response to the existing topography. Its near contemporaries, and closest English relatives, are Chiswick, Claremont, Rousham and Studley Royal. With so few examples of this style in existence, Middleton Place is an important, beautiful and interesting example. A Camellia garden was begun in the late-eighteenth century and has been extended.

Address - 4300 Ashley River Road, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, SC 29414
Opening times - All year. Daily. Opens 9am.
Admission - Adult $25
Website - Visit the Middleton Place Garden website

Local Hotels

Hotels within 30km as the crow flies from this garden.

Comfort Suites North Charleston (7km away)
From $79.00 to $129.00
Quality Inn Northside Drive (7km away)
From $72.99 to $72.99
Motel 6 Charleston North (7km away)
From $39.99 to $65.99
Sleep Inn North Charleston (7km away)
From $99.99 to $99.99
Hampton Inn Charleston North (7km away)
From $109.00 to $149.00
Aloft Charleston Airport and Convention Center (9km away)
From $109.00 to $109.00
Crowne Plaza Charleston (9km away)
From $101.15 to $239.00
Wingate by Wyndham Charleston (10km away)
From $69.00 to $139.00

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Gardens within 30km as the crow flies from this garden.

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Cypress Gardens (SC) (21km away)
Heyward Washington Garden (21km away)

Reviews and Comments

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over 2 years ago Pat Hartley said
We spent several hours touring this magnificent site, first on a guided tour and then on our own. Our docent pointed out a plant reputed to be the one of four camellias given to Henry Middleton in 1786 by the famed French botanist Andre Michaux when he visited the area on a search for new plants on behalf of Louis XVI. We had a delicious lunch at the restaurant which has beautiful views of the lake. Note: Middleton Place has something that its English cousins can't match--alligators. We saw two small ones that day, having been warned where to look for them by the docent.

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