Guided Historic Garden & Grounds Tours for Rose Festival

Experience the magnificent spring blooming season of Pebble Hill Plantation’s historic Green Arrow Tour with your own personal guide. Made possible by a matching grant from The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. and Thomasville Garden Club, Inc., the Green Arrow Tour showcases the historic and native plantings throughout Pebble Hill’s main grounds and gardens.

The landscape plans for the main grounds were developed by Ethelwyn Harrison from the late 1920’s to the early l930’s. Miss Harrison was a landscape architect in Cleveland, Ohio when she was commissioned by Kate Hanna Harvey to create Pebble Hill’s design. She framed the Main House with numerous camellia bushes, dogwoods, magnolias, azaleas, tea olives, and Cherokee roses. A century plant stood tall by the east entrance. A shrubbery maze on the front lawn has been a particular delight of youngsters over the years. Crabapple Walk adds interest on the east lawn. Miss Harrison’s goal was to create a setting that would be its prettiest in winter and early spring when the Hanna family was in residence and welcoming houseguests regularly. Miss Harrison was born in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1892. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Landscape Design from the University of Michigan in 1916, she worked in landscape design in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

These are walking tours of the historic gardens of Pebble Hill. Comfortable attire and walking shoes are recommended. Participants are encouraged to bring a picnic lunch to enjoy on the scenic grounds.