We traveled south of Mobile to see the gardens built by the local Coca Cola baron Bellingrath. He was the first in Alabama to use motorized delivery trucks. Starting about 1925 he and his wife Bessy converted an old fish camp into a world class garden complex complete with a bayou, an Asian area, waterways and numerous flowered (even in Janurary) pathways. The high quality of every square foot of this beautiful garden can not be conveyed in these few photographs. Water flows through many areas of the garden and is stepped down over many small waterfalls before finally falling into the river below. The picture of a well bundled up (39 degrees) Patti shows one of the many waterways.
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but at least there are flowers! everything is dead here.
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