As my husband drove along the bumpy residential road to Paradise Gardens, it didn’t feel like we were headed in the right direction. I wasn't sure what I was looking for, but this quiet neighborhood ...

Starting in the mid-’70s on a quiet street on the outskirts of Summerville, the late Howard Finster—a former Baptist minister and self-proclaimed “man of visions”—created 46,991 individually numbered ...

Paradise Garden, just a few blocks off U.S. 27 and encompassing four acres, was his creation. It is filled with concrete walls and mounds embedded with just about any object you can think of, be it a ...

If William Blake had been born on northeast Alabama, he might have looked a lot like Howard Finster - artist, musician, a man who identified himself as "not of this world." Finster created Paradise ...

PENNVILLE, GA. | The Rev. Howard Finster is still helping call the roll up yonder, but in a development virtually no one expected, his Paradise Gardens is springing back to life. Tucked away in this ...

Keyatta Mincey-Parker’s Sip of Paradise garden has given Atlanta’s out-of-work bartenders a place to gather. When the pandemic hit last year, some people jumped on the bread-baking trend to keep ...

There is beauty to be found in our sprawling suburbs, not so much in the houses, which are predictable, as in the gardens which are not. Some gardens are original works of art created by homeowners ...