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Bellingrath Gardens

4/3/2014

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And now for a completely different kind of garden. On the second day along the Gulf, we visited the estate of Coca-Cola bottler Walter Bellingrath. Back in 1918 it was just a fishing camp on the Fowl River south of Mobile, Alabama. Walter and his wife "turned the property into a work of art", and opened it to the public. It is supposed to be most beautiful in spring, but spring was late this year, so not much was in bloom while we were there. But we made the best of it.....

Elin and Byuri came along to explore....
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I've started a Trip album which includes all the doll photos from each of the places visited on my Blog so far. I will add more each day after posting a few here first. Just click on the last photo above to see all the photos. I suspect there will be too many photos for just one album, so will have to start a new one at some point.

I'm trying to get back to work, but it's going slow, as there's still much to sort and put away. There's also some loose ends to tie up. Like taking studio photos and making Gallery pages for the four new outfits worn to Florida. Also, I discovered Bonnie's lovely purple sweater and dress set she's been wearing all winter, has never been documented either. Then I really need to make an effort to clear out my last commissions - there's still 6 commissions waiting from before I stopped taking them. The first one is a Celtic outfit for an Iplehouse KID. It will be interesting making that outfit so small. I went through my box of tartans and there's very few with small enough plaids. The fabric store didn't have anything suitable either, so we went to Value Village, and there were plenty of men's shirts with nice small plaids to be had there. 

I'm also having a sale of everything still on my For Sale page. Many items have been there for some time, so I've marked everything down.
4 Comments
Jane
4/3/2014 05:13:27 am

Oh what beautiful photos of the girls in the garden.......and I recognise most of the plants in this garden, it is just the trees that make the place exotic to me.

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Martha
4/3/2014 05:23:18 am

The flowers they have there in early spring are all the cool-weather kind that you probably have in the UK as well. We do too, although we don't have camellias or azaleas. The trees though are very different there - big and sprawling, and full of Spanish moss. And nothing says 'exotic' like palms!

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Martha
4/3/2014 05:24:57 am

I thought it was very interesting that they made considerable use of parsley and ornamental cabbages in the urns and pots.

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Jane
4/4/2014 08:29:03 am

I must confess that that surprised me too!




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