The Azalea City
To understand Mobile, it’s important to understand the azalea.
Stop and Smell the Tea Olive
Though unassuming in appearance, this shrub releases a wintertime fragrance that any Scrooge could appreciate.
Natural Warmth
On even-numbered years, four generations of the Culbreth family — scattered from New York to Tennessee, Texas to Georgia — get together in Baldwin County to celebrate...
Lakeshore: A Hunting Haven
There’s something therapeutic about simultaneously bonding with family and nature. Janice and Roger Setzler, selected their 568-acre lot in Chatom, Alabama, based on its calm, ...
The Colors of the Wind
If Alabamians could ever get over their New England envy, they’d realize that their state’s fall leaf color packs a punch few other places in the world can...
An Architect’s Own
The high grounds rising above Downtown Mobile have long been home to the monumental and picturesque. From its earliest days, tree-canopied Spring Hill has been peppered with villa estates...
Falling for Asters
Those bound and determined to have an English garden on the Gulf Coast this fall need to know two very important facts. First of all, you must...
DIY: Outdoor Swing Bed
In March 2015, we showcased the beautiful home of local designer Brittany Fleming. Purchased in 2012, Brittany's Cottage Hill fixer-upper was truly a labor of love. Despite the amount of...
The City of Palms
Before there were azaleas, before camellias, long before live...
Neat & Tidy
Old Mobile architecture is undoubtedly stately and impressive – except when it comes to closet and storage space. “But, small spaces don’t have to mean cramped spaces, ”...