Brookgreen Gardens members, mark your calendars for Wish List Wednesday at Keepsakes!

Wish List Wednesday is your opportunity to get a head start on holiday shopping in a festive atmosphere AND enjoy an additional 10 percent savings on most items. Enjoy even more savings on select merchandise, including angels, scarves, seasoned peanuts, specialty jams and dips, and Southern Gates Jewelry. See you at Keepsakes!

This is a members only event.  Not a member? It's easy to join, click here to check out all the benefits. 

Join us as we walk the beautiful Brookgreen Gardens Labryrinth during this season of gratitude. As you approach the busy season ahead, slow down and contemplate the gifts you have received. Breathe deeply and appreciate the richness of life. We will meet at the labryrinth at 1pm to enjoy an enriching group walk; feel free to linger at the labryrinth to journal or just enjoy the silence following your walk.

Please note that the event may be cancelled for safety reasons if there is significant rainfall or flooding impacting the labryrinth area prior to on the day of the walk. Also, due to the natural surroundings of the labryrinth, we strongly encourage walkers to wear closed-toed shoes for their safety.

Included with garden admission.

Keepsakes, the Brookgreen Shop, proudly presents the Art Festival at Brookgreen Gardens.
This two-day event showcases the fine craftsmanship and quality art being produced regionally and throughout the nation.  

Come and enjoy the work of talented artists and artisans at the annual Brookgreen Art Festival. Painting, sculpture, fabric art, pottery, glass, and more will be available to browse under the oaks.

Food trucks

Fish Shak

Let’s Ride BBQ

Sunset Slush

Music

Paul Grimshaw Duo

Joshua Alan Rupp

Capture the beauty of nature in a durable and functional piece of garden art. Using cement and leaves from your garden you can create a water feature for birds and butterflies, or a diverter for your rain gutters down spout.

Materials will be provided, wear clothes that can get dirty!

To make sure we have ample room for social distancing, this will be limited to 15 participants.

Members $30 Non- Members $45 admission is included in the price.

We care about the health and well-being of all our guests, volunteers, and employees, and have taken safety precautions since the beginning of the COVID19 crisis.  As we move forward, it is important that we continue to make temporary, yet necessary, changes to our policies in order to create a safe environment for all our guests and team members.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the use of a simple face covering slows the spread of the virus and prevents those who unknowingly have the virus from transmitting it to others.  We encourage use of such face coverings.

Re-kindle romance by walking the labyrinth with your "special someone" on this auspicious day.  Or walk yourself in remembrance of or to honor someone you love. The walk will be held on Brookgreen's beautiful labyrinth on the creek front.  All are welcome to join us in this joyous celebration of love!

Please note that group walks will be cancelled if there is substantial rain on or immediately before the day of the walk. Due to the natural surroundings of the Labyrinth, we encourage walkers to wear closed toe shoes for their safety.

The next Labyrinth Walk: Spring Equinox | Tuesday, 3/19/2023

Mason bees nest in pre-made holes. Hole-nesting bees represent about 25% of the world’s bee species and are very important to reducing stress on the honeybee.

We can increase mason bee populations by raising them in our backyards and gardens, which is a great way to supplement pollination, sustain our future food supply, and provide nesting sites for other native bees, too.

This class will teach you how to build a house for your own yard to attract Mason bees! 

Tickets Members $20 Non-Members $35

Bring work gloves or garden gloves!

“Making Flowers Out of Pinecones” with Gilma Caslin, Diane Herbert, and Cindy Kerr.

Who knew that pinecones could look like zinnias! Come have fun and make a wreath to take home. This wreath will last throughout the summer and the flowers will stay beautiful!

10:00 am to 2:00 pm, LCC Auditorium.

Please bring your own lunch! Water will be provided.

Members $30, non-members $45 Limit 15 people.

Herbs are fascinating plants! They have had many uses throughout our history. They have had a culinary use and a medicinal use.

Join Master Herbalist Janice Oldfield as she discusses the historical roots of herbal medicine and the therapeutic effects of different herbal preparations used today.

Then participate with Viki Richardson in creating a small herb garden to take home.

Cost Members $20 Non-members $35

Join Brookgreen's Butterfly Keeper, Tara Johns-Berry, as she teaches us about the butterfly’s life cycle and how to attract them to your garden with host plants and nectar plants. Learn the difference between a butterfly and a moth, and how we can make our environment butterfly friendly.

Those who pay attention as they are driving on Highway 17 in the Pawleys Island area may have noticed the ruins of an old motel behind a fence and a street sign saying "Old Beach Road." That is what is left of McKenzie Beach, once a popular and well-known vacation resort. But what made it important then was that it was a beach for African-Americans at a time when direct access to the Atlantic oceanfront in the Jim Crow South was extremely limited.

"McKenzie Beach Memories - Art by Natalie Daise" is made up of paintings that have been used as the illustrations for the book "McKenzie Beach Memories," published by CLASS Publishing and available in September.

In the Wall Lowcountry Center Learning Lab One, September 5 - October 15, 2020, from 12:00 - 4:30 p.m. 

Free with garden admission.