If you’re lucky, you may discover one of Charleston’s secret gardens.
Mules pull carriages packed with visitors throughout the city. Photo by L. Michael Whited
An aerial view of Fort Sumpter. Photo by Charleston Area CVB
"As a boy, in my own backyard I could catch a basket of blue crabs, a string of flounder, a dozen redfish, or a net full of white shrimp,” wrote the late Pat Conroy in a prologue to his Charleston-based book South of Broad. “All this I could do in a city enchanting enough to charm cobras out of baskets, one so corniced and filigreed and elaborate that it leaves strangers awed and natives self-satisfied. In its shadows you can find metalwork as delicate as lace and spiral staircases as elaborate as yachts. In the secrecy of its gardens you can discover jasmine and camellias and hundreds of other plants that look embroidered and stolen from the Garden of Eden for the sheer love of richness and the joy of stealing from the gods."
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