BELLINGRATH GARDENS 
Lovely Bellingrath Gardens, which is located on a road 
that enters Highway 90 just four miles southwest of the 
nursery, is truly a year-round garden spot of indescribable 
beauty. Mr. Walter Bellingrath, who, with the late Mrs. 
Bellingrath, founded the Gardens, likens their beauty to 
that of a lovely lady who has 52 different gowns, one for 
each week of the year. This is indeed true, for while 
Bellingrath Gardens attracts many thousands of persons 
daily during the lavish Azalea display in the springtime, 
no other season can rightfully be said to hold any less 
charm, for the Garden is a veritable haven for every sort 
of plant and flower that can be grown in the Deep South. 
Who can judge, really, whether the poignant quietness 
and peace of a summer day, cool underneath the towering 
moss-draped oaks, and high-lighted with colorful displays 
of roses and many other seasonal flowers, is more beauti- 
ful than, for instance, a brisk sunny November or Decem- 
ber afternoon when each new turn reveals an exciting 
and different variety of Camellia in exquisite bloom, some 
towering over your head to twenty feet or more in height, 
and framed by broad green and blue vistas of lawn and 
water, with red-berried Pyracanthas and hollies blending 
into the background. 
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