The first issue ofSouthern Livingappeared in February 1966.
I put out a post on my Grumpy Gardener Facebook page asking if anybody recognized this shot.
I got lots of answers.
Now, we did have a couple of problems in recreating this cover.
For one thing, Hurricane Frederic happened down in Mobile.
So at this place in this neighborhood, a lot of the big trees were smashed to pieces.
Pieces are knocked over.
Also, there wasn’t one single azalea there.
We have a good relationship with the company called PDSI that came out with theEncore Azalea.
They had a crew of about eight people hauling these things around.
Now almost 60 years later we are still reflecting on that beautiful cover.