Celebrate spring with your friends and family at Pebble Hill Plantation as we help commemorate 100 years of the Thomasville Rose Show & Festival with activities and events!

Saturday, April 24 at 11 a.m. — Pebble Hill Plantation will unveil a Rose Garden as a tribute to more than 100 years of gardening on the beautiful main grounds. The Pebble Hill staff and friends will have a ribbon cutting and tour of the newly planted Rose Garden which includes unique heritage roses and a special Hanna family rose grafted from a 100-year-old heirloom plant. This event is included with the purchase of grounds admission. For Rose Show weekend, a 20% discount off regular admission is offered.

Saturday, April 24 from 12 noon to 2 p.m. — Spring Floral Design Lunch and Learn Event where participants will enjoy a box lunch while learning from local floral design legend, Jimmy Singletary. In the historic stable courtyard, he will demonstrate his expert floral placement tips that have earned him multiple statewide recognitions. 

Singletary’s arrangements are whimsical and original, each created for his clients as meticulously as a bespoke suit. Textured and elegant, he often includes foraged flora such as ferns, boxwood and local camellias in his designs. His arrangements have brought beauty and elegance to the tables of luminaries such as Jimmy Buffett, Jane Fonda and First Lady Barbara Bush.

He has been winning floral design competitions since he was 17 and was twice awarded The Georgia State Floral Designer of the Year. His excellence has also been recognized by the FTD Americas Cup for Georgia, the world’s most prestigious floral competition. He’s a twelve-time recipient of the Southwest Georgia Florist Association’s Designer of the Year award.

Tickets are $40 per person and include a box lunch. Space is limited and advance registration is required by Tuesday, April 20, 2021. Visit https://pebble-hill-plantation.ticketleap.com/ to register.

Added safety measures will be in place for the protection of the guests, speaker and staff. In case of inclement weather, the Spring Floral Design Lunch and Learn Event will be moved to Sugar Hill Barn at Pebble Hill Plantation and the Pebble Hill Rose Garden ribbon cutting will be canceled.

For more information on these events, please contact Pebble Hill Plantation at (229) 226-2344 or visit www.pebblehill.com.

Pebble Hill Plantation is a historic home with a history that dates back to 1825. The plantation was established by one of Thomas County’s founders, Thomas Jefferson Johnson. At the turn of the 20th century, the Hanna family of Cleveland, Ohio purchased the property and enjoyed it as winter home and sporting estate. Pebble Hill is open to the public today due to the generosity of its last owner, Elisabeth (Pansy) Ireland Poe, who willed that her home be opened to the public. Pebble Hill opened to visitors in 1983. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Pebble Hill offers visitors tours of the main house and grounds to learn the rich history of this historic site and the people who once lived and worked here. For more information, visit the Pebble Hill website www.pebblehill.com, call 229-226-2344, or visit us on Facebook and Instagram using @pebblehillplantation.