This wonderful Charleston garden is located one the side of the very first house built on Murray Boulevard. The ceiling of the porch is painted in “Haint Blue.” The Gullah-Geechee communities, found in coastal South Carolina and Georgia, believed that the blue would keep the spirits of the dead (the haints) from entering the house. Now common in Charleston and across the South, it may or may not work on the spirits, but it sure does make for a pretty porch.
A local's eye view
