Bellingrath Gardens

Bellingrath Gardens and Home is a 65-acre (26 ha) botanical garden and mansion located on the Fowl River in Theodore, a suburb of Mobile, Alabama. The site was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on September 14, 1977. It is also on the National Register of Historic Places on October 19, 1982.

The Bellingrath gardens include a bridal garden, a conservatory, a great lawn, a nature walk, an Oriental garden, a rose garden, a chapel, the Mermaid Pool, Mirror Lake, an observation tower, and a river pavilion where river cruises are provided on the Southern Belle and the “Kingfisher”. The garden pathways are composed of flagstone that had been obtained from the old city sidewalks in Mobile, where they had been in place since arriving as ballast in sailing vessels collecting loads of cotton for the mills at Manchester, England.

A garden is planned space to be enjoyed as a set aside of the display or cultivation of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate together native and man-made resources. The most common form today is identified as a housing garden, although the term garden has historically been a more general one. Just like the Bellingrath gardens, we can understand why we want to know more of the gardens.

Walter Bellingrath, President of Mobile’s Coca Cola Bottling Plant purchased the property on which the gardens would eventually be constructed in 1917 as a fishing camp. Mrs. Bellingrath began developing the gardens with architect George Bigelow Rogers in 1927. The home was completed in 1935, encompasses 10,500 square feet (980 m2) and features hand-made brick salvaged in Mobile from the 1852 birthplace of Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont. You may see from internet a lot of things about the Bellingrath Gardens.

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January 12, 2012 В· Landscaping Design Admin В· One Comment
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