Winter Garden at Mobile Botanical Gardens

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Bobby Green at the November Pine Straw Festival that was organized to provide pine straw mulch for the camellias.	Bobby Green discusses plans for Wintergarden with Jane Davis and George Davis (President of the Camellia Club of Mobile).

The camellia garden at the Mobile Botanical Gardens is undergoing a renovation and expansion that will make it one of the premier camellia gardens in the United States. Bobby Green of Green's Nursery is spearheading the development of the garden that will be called Wintergarden. Green will provide hundreds of camellia plants for the garden. Van der Giessen Nursery and Overlook Nursery, are providing additional plants. Volunteers from Mobile Botanical Gardens and the Camellia Club of Mobile are providing additional support. The garden will also feature numerous varieties of winter blooming plants that will complement the camellias. The camellia gardens will be organized into an antique collection of older varieties, a collection of camellias developed in the Mobile area, a hybrid collection, a camellia species collection, and a camellia sinensis (tea plant) collection. Green also plans on giving a collection of rare and/or obscure camellias (mostly C.japonica) that will be planted as a hedge along that main gravel road in the garden.


Some established camellias at Wintergarden	New watering system at the garden