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Fall.
Sometimes just one perfectly placed word is enough to set our minds ablaze with memories, nostalgia, feelings, expectations, ruminations. It’s as if a portion of our lives—often recurrent—can be crammed into the space of just a syllable or two, lying dormant until the magic word is uttered. Let’s try another one…
Pumpkins.
There’s something so distinctive about the about the way pumpkins look, taste, feel, smell—even the sound they make when thumped. Most of us can identify a pumpkin with four of our five senses tied behind our back! Also, the presence of pumpkins indicates when we are…October and November most likely. Plants, flowers and fruits are synonymous with majority of our holidays and traditional events, but is there any one single plant that joins together consecutive holidays over an entire season like pumpkins?
One Hundred Seventy-Nine.
The Great Bellingrath Harvest is a celebration of fall, along with its traditional holidays and events. And everywhere, there are pumpkins. Once again this year, we unloaded and stacked 30,000 lbs of pumpkins, each placed carefully…one at a time. A huge pumpkin fountain, obelisks, a pumpkin tree, and piles of pumpkins everywhere—Bellingrath’s Display Designer, Barbara Smith designed and orchestrated the installation. The display is very different than last year, with every major display concentration being new and unique. My favorite pumpkin decoration hovers over the square fountain on the plaza near the Bellingrath Home—the color and texture coordination is spot on. But that’s just my opinion…tell us what pile of pumpkins is your favorite! Nineteen people pitched in over the course of 14 consecutive days. How long did it take for us to unload and stack 15 tons of pumpkins? Glad you asked. 179 hours. Again…19 people…what a great team effort!
The Front Porch.
Finally, while we think you’ll be amazed at some of the larger than life pumpkin displays, we hope you’ll find the dozens of smaller groupings tucked away in the many nooks and crannies around the garden to be something that you might repeatable on your own front porch.
We are excited for you to join us for Great Bellingrath Harvest. The calendar can be found on our website here:
