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Easter Family Photos, Proms, Graduations, Engagements, Weddings, Parties, Family Reunions, Nature Photos

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Montgomery Botanical Gardens is the perfect setting for your photographs in this season of special events. Bring your family on Easter Weekend to take capture them in their Easter finery in the midst of floral beauty. Have your Prom and Graduation photographs taken among the beautiful greens and blooms among the various gardens. Stage your wedding and engagement pictures with backgrounds of gorgeous color or calming greens. Gather the guests at your parties and take groups photos in the gardens to memorialize your events. Family reunions, nature photography and much more can be preserved in photographs in the beautiful setting.

The blooming plants are always changing so don’t delay your photography plans. These are just some of the lovely specimens blooming in the gardens now.

Don’t Delay Your Fall Visit to the Montgomery Botanical Gardens

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Don’t delay your Fall visit to the gardens or you will miss the brightly colored displays. The fleeting beauty in the gardens of the fall season is magnificent to behold. From the delicate blossoms of the Snapdragons at the entrance, to the hardy, bright orange Marigolds along the pathway, to the frilly purple, blue and red Salvia in the Daylily and Companion Garden, the eye is flooded with color. 

The many trees in the gardens display their seasonal colors that will only last a short while. The huge old Gingko trees show off their golden yellow shower of leaves. Dogwoods stretch their limbs loaded with deep red leaves. Crepe Myrtle trees are in stages of displaying many colored leaves as well as limbs of died seed pod berries. Yellow leaves on the Hickory trees are a striking contrast to many stately evergreen oaks. Sweetgum and Maples also contribute to the virtual rainbow of fall color. 

Even the stems holding the dried seed balls of the Rudbeckia plants are attractive. The Japanese Maple Garden is a young garden with small trees, but many are showing their variety of colored leaves already. But a favorite this time of year are the varieties of Sasanqua Camellias that are blooming in shades of deep pink and reds in the garden. The last of the Lantana blooms and Astor blooms remain a while in the Pollinator Gardens. The white Starlite Encore Azaleas have been blooming along both sides of the entrance. 

So don’t wait until the colorful displays are gone. Take a friend, visit the gardens and enjoy nature’s beauty in the fall. 

Montgomery Botanical Gardens Garden Photography Class Draws Enthusiastic Crowd

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A recent class entitled Capturing Beauty in Your Garden with Photography drew a crowd eager to learn new techniques for creating vibrant photos of all that grows in our gardens. The class, taught by Jewell Pitts, was held in the Montgomery Botanical Gardens Wisdom Wood Outdoor Classroom on a beautiful April morning, perfect for capturing color, form, and texture through iPhone or Android photography.

Mrs. Pitts, who specializes in shooting blooming flowers, shared several tips with participants:

  • Make sure your lens is clean.
  • Simply look around and shoot small parts of things—a few leaves or a bloom.
  • Bend down to their level to photograph small children.
  • Take shots from different angles. You never know which angle will be the best.
  • Go close to your subject to take the picture. Do not zoom before taking the shot.

Mrs. Pitts offered a website for ordering canvases: canvasdiscount.com.

At the close of the class, Rose Winkler shared information for photographers who would like to enter their work in the Alabama National Fair in October. The Fair features several classes in  the photography categories. Information on entering the contest is available from Mrs. Winkler at 5782 Carriage Bard Lane, Montgomery, Alabama 36116.

The June Montgomery Botanical Gardens class will be Attracting Pollinators, taught by Sonya Moore, and will be held in the Wisdom Wood Outdoor Classroom on Saturday, June 8 at 10:00 am. Admission is free. There will be a butterfly release. Seating is available, but participants may wish to bring a folding chair. Water will be available.