Bellingrath Gardens

Yesterday we went to Bellingrath Gardens. This morning I loaded all the pictures and then proceeded to hit a wrong button and deleted them all! So here’s a list of the blooming flowers from their webpage. There are 3 different tours you can do at the gardens. The house, gardens and a river cruise, or you can just do the gardens and the river cruise, or you can just do the gardens. We opted just to do the gardens, since we have been done several other southern home tours.

It was a beautiful day and the walk in the gardens were very nice however, we were a little disappointed in it. Every botanical garden we have ever been in always has little signs identifying the flowers and trees. This garden did not have them. Guess I should have taken this picture along with me. We saw mostly Azaleas. If you don’t take the tour in April you wouldn’t even see them. Even yesterday the blooms were starting to drop. It just seemed that they weren’t keeping up these gardens along the walk. However, the closer you got to the house, there were pretty fountains with seasonal plantings around. This is where they had all the Easter lilies and some other spring plantings.

Ed is off to play golf today and tomorrow we plan to go to Battleship Park to see the Alabama.