Brookgreen Gardens South Carolina

South of Myrtle Beach South Carolina

The following link is a Slide show of photos Tom and I took at a place called Brookgreen Garden.  I referenced this location before.
https://picasaweb.google.com/100518153875957627148/May12012#slideshow/5737548316209673698

The history of the garden is a husband and wife (Archer Huntington and Anna Hyatt Huntington), philanthropist and sculptor bought 3 dilapidated plantations in the 1930's and made a garden, sculpture garden and zoo for injured animals and birds.  The animals were injured and rehabilitated but could not return to the wild.  The garden was to display his wife's work but has grown to display many other wonderful artists.  Here is a link to the website:http://www.brookgreen.org/horticulture.cfm

Some of the sculptures we saw are shown below.  The gardens were spectacular.  Not bustling with color flowers per say but large oak trees and natural woodlands gave way to small patches of color with sculpture being the focal point.  After 3 days in the gardens this is a snip it of what we saw.

In addition there was a butterfly garden inside this huge net where we were able to find butterflies in their natural habitat.   Between the two of us we took over 300 pictures I believe.

Here is the link to the butterfly slide show.
https://picasaweb.google.com/100518153875957627148/Butterflies#slideshow/5737891468690932946

Here are a few of Tom's flower life pictures.

Our time in Myrtle Beach came to an end Tuesday and we traveled North back to North Carolina and are currently in New Bern.  In our search for a campground this time around we came across a place which is literally in someone's backyard.   There are about 30 sites and most have long term people staying in them.  We drove up to the owners front door and they waved us back.  They got busy I guess and we didn't pay until the next day.  Gotta love people in North Carolina.  Everyone has been super friendly.  We'll be exploring the Outer Banks for a few days.  Already we have seen there is a lot of civil war history here.  Which we both find fascinating.  Then heading north to Kitty Hawk.

Hope you are enjoying your day as much as we are.