Sweet Olive's private deck overlooks our beautiful courtyard garden and swimming pool with its soothing waterfall. The queen canopy bed and large dressing area with period antiques are steps from your cozy private bath with shower. Business travel or working holidays are much more enjoyable in this relaxing retreat from the summer heat or cold of winter. (Rates: $189 to $295) [-]
A Savannah garden tour or nature tour through old southern gardens will feature the sweet tea olive, a southern heritage plant. Totally covered in October with white and near white blooms, the sweet tea olive has a scent of sweet apricots. The sweet tea olive blooms repeatedly all year, w inter/early spring, late summer/early fall. Discovered also on the restored walls of a Confederate stronghold, sweet tea olive plants can be seen at
Ft. Pulaski National Monument, a Georgia State Park on Cockspur Island in route to Tybee Island, Georgia.
Step Into History tours notes Ft. Pulaski tour information.
Offering year around business casual Savannah garden tours, the
Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum and
garden -- housed in the William Scarborough House colonial Savannah mansion -- boasts the largest Savannah historic district garden. “Spring … is the
garden-and-home-tour season, when stately shuttered and wrought-iron-gated brick and stone mansions are framed in a pastel explosion of azaleas, wisteria, dogwoods and camellias,” writes the
Washington Times. Forsyth Park, within 2 blocks of Azalea Inn, is a must see nature photography wonderland.
One novel by Trobaugh,
The Tea-Olive Bird Watching Society, t reads on familiar ground of women's friendship in the South and exalts the bonds among Beulah, Zion, Wildwood and Sweet, four Tea-Olive, Georgia, churchgoing ladies (all named after hymns) and founding members of the titular society.
Short Savannah road trips will take you to nearby
Georgia State Parks including
Skidaway Island State Park, Wormsloe Plantation, and the
Cumberland Island National Seashore (accessible only by tour boat, preserves a large section of coastal island, including unspoiled beaches, marshes, and freshwater lakes).
Fort Frederica National Monument, on Saint Simons Island, one of the Sea Islands, contains the ruin of an early 18th-century British military post. The broad, winding Ogeechee River wraps around narrow islets of land jutting off randomly from either bank, is a place that a pelican wanders the sky looking for a meal. The Spanish Moss is so thick it drips off the Live Oaks. This is
Fort McAllister, on a peninsula of land known as Genesis Point in Richmond Hill, near the old Henry Ford Plantation.
Fort James Jackson in Savannah is Georgia's oldest brick fortification.
A fabulous quiet place for a family picnic, group retreat, urban retreat, or peaceful romantic picnic and patriotic discovery is
Fort Morris, one of the few remaining Revolutionary War era earthwork fortifications in the United States. First fortified in the 1750s, the fort was manned to protect the once prosperous seaport town of Sunbury.
Fort Morris was surrendered to the British on January 9, 1779, the last patriot post to fall in the American Revolution.
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