It is one of our favorite events of the year, the Festival of Flowers in Mobile, Alabama. The festival is produce by the Providence Hospital Foundation and is in it's 22nd year. This year's theme was "Southern Roots" and included the following features:
• Landscaped gardens reflecting our Southern heritage
• Featured display by Bellingrath Gardens & Home, the South’s premier garden destination
• Floral presentations of Southern garden showplaces
• Floral interpretations of books by favorite Southern authors
• World of Flowers – blossoms from around the world
• Designer tablescapes for Southern entertaining
• Container gardens for the Southern home or patio
• Special Event: Demonstrations by Benny Campbell, one of the South’s foremost floral designers
• Seminars: Tips for growing a Southern garden
• Featured Alabama artist Stacey Howell
• Photography contest and exhibit – glimpses of our Southern treasures
• Garden Café - Enjoy a taste of the South
• Gardener’s Galleria - Southern style shopping
• Weekend Family Fun Days
I snapped pictures like crazy for you faithful readers, but will dole them out in small doses this week as the festival is so overwhelmingly impressive that it is best enjoyed a bit at at time.
We'll start with the floral birdhouses.....
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| The cardinals at our house would love to call this place home! |
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| Don't miss Sylvester up in the tree. |
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| So clever to cover the house with bird seed. |
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| Notice the "stream" made of glass pebbles flowing down from the house. |
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| And finally, the piece de resistance! Wouldn't a little Carolina wren be proud to live in this!! |
The birdhouses greeted you as you entered the festival. Then you made your way through beautiful floral vignettes before reaching the main exhibition tent....
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| I have never seen so many irises in one place!! |
Tomorrow we'll enter the main tent.....
Love ya'll,
Shelli
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