Take a Tour of an Elegant Charleston Walled Garden

An oasis of calm in the genteel city of Charleston, Peggy and Woody Rash's garden is ideal for parties with its lovely water feature, multiple outdoor rooms, trees for shade and a brick patio that won't tangle up high heels.

"This is a kind of typical Charleston garden," says Peggy Rash, filled with classic Southern plants like crape myrtle, camellias, sweet bay magnolia, azaleas and tea olive as well as pittosporum, boxwoods and Italian cypress.

A view of the back of the Rash house, built in 1853, shows some of the unique features of the garden including crape myrtles framing the water feature and a "lawn" of mondo grass.

A brick pathway leads from the main garden room to a smaller ancillary room demarcated by brick walls featuring carefully manicured creeping fig.

The Rash garden has a sense of progression, with pathways leading to garden rooms and windows and gates opening up to other sections of the garden. The architecture of the walled garden gives a sense of discovery as you move through the space.

Majestic Italian cypress trees flank this Charleston garden, lending a sense of Old World elegance.

The ultimate in easy care, succulents are ideal outdoor centerpieces and provide instant interest on outdoor tables when visitors stop by.

A series of garden rooms unfolds as you move throughout the Rash space, with statuary ingeniously placed to give each garden vignette its own special character.