Waterfalls Of Mums

The annual chrysanthemum festival at Bellingrath Gardens and Home near Mobile, Alabama, will leave you speechless.

- Steve Bender

A SIREN CALL from Alabama’s Gulf Coast can come from many sources: white-sand beaches, the catch of the day, and (of course) the infamous Flora-Bama bar at the Florida state line. In a few weeks, though, all will be silenced by the lure of an experience you can’t get at any other time or place— waterfalls of chrysanthemums flowing down and around Bellingrath Gardens and Home in little Theodore, Alabama. It’s the largest such display in the entire country.