Purchase TicketsCompost: The Secret Ingredient in your Southern Garden
Compost, like butter in our favorite recipes, is not to be used sparingly! Nearly every plant we grow in the garden benefits from decomposed organic matter—and often for reasons that […]
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Mr. Bellingrath’s Desk
Dominating Mr. Bellingrath’s bedroom is his impressive desk upon its spiral turned legs. The piece does not appear in the 1943 or 1947 inventories of the Home’s contents. The 1964 […]
Bellingrath and the Mockingbird
On July 11, 1960, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird was published. In the sixty-five years since that date the Pulitzer Prize winning book has been translated into 40 languages […]
Military Mondays: Honoring Those Who Serve
At Bellingrath Gardens & Home, we are proud to support the men and women who serve our country. As part of our ongoing commitment to military families, we want to […]
Winter is Coming, So We’ve Turned Up the Heat
It’s almost 100 degrees, and we’re 100 days from our next 32-degree night. So why are we installing greenhouse heaters in July? Glad you asked. Only 164 days have passed […]
Unifying Cultures: Tsubaki, the Camellia
Introduction As winter draped Osaka and Kyoto in silence, the Camellia bloomed—quiet, resolute. In that final chapter of my journey through Japan, it moved me to reflect on how a […]
Ok, Now. What’s Next?!
Sleep-deprivation has a way of working on you. Nine 4-days-long “weekends” of the inaugural Gulf Coast Chinese Lantern Festival, plus the daily work involved in keeping Bellingrath Gardens & Home […]
The Sunday Night Supper Room: Or Is It?
Beyond the Bottle Room is a room long nick-named as the Sunday Night Supper Room. Guides routinely inform visitors that it received that name from the Bellingraths who often had […]
Gulf Coast Chinese Lantern Festival – A Smash Hit!
Well, here we are, seven weeks out of nine total into the inaugural season of the Gulf Coast Chinese Lantern Festival! Two more weeks are left, and as such we […]
Snow, Moon, and Flowers: Bellingrath on the Camellia Trail in Japan
Exploring Japan’s Camellia Culture: From Shizuoka to Oshima Island As promised in last month’s article, our journey through Japan continues—this time taking us from the structured elegance of mainland gardens […]