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A walk-thru of the Birmingham Botanical Gardens.
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well today we're touring the Birmingham
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Botanical Gardens and um it's a nice day
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I've been out uh checking out some spots
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so uh I'm kind of
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wilted it's um it's probably about 80
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degrees here and
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um but the humidity is very high here in
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the southern
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us uh so you probably got uh 80 uh
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probably 80% humidity so it's like
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squeezing squeezing water out of the air
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but uh the botanical gardens is located
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uh located here in Birmingham uh the
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gardens are free um you can uh walk
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around in the gardens take your time
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there's a there's a lot of different
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sections to the gardens and we'll be
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explaining that as we as we go
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along um but it's a it's a nice day to
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see the gardens it's overcast uh has
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sprinkled a little bit but uh you know
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if it's hot out here then um they have
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places you can sit um nice relaxing
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spots with tables uh chairs benches uh
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have drinks uh soft
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drinks and uh it makes a nice outing uh
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for a day uh you can come and take your
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time walk through whatever area of the
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garden you would wish to see or walk
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through all the areas of the garden
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um we'll uh we'll kind of get into a
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little history of the gardens and and uh
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check on some of the some of the uh some
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of the the the main uh the main the main
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sections of the garden uh it's been
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raining for the past few days so um
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flowers uh they're a little they're
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little on the wilted side uh a little on
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the drench side uh they're also doing
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some construction work and renovation
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improvements to the gardens and U we're
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not going to see really all of what we
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expected but we'll try to uh try to give
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you a little uh little overview of the
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Birmingham botanical gardens uh what you
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can expect uh if you visit uh we'll try
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to try to show you some video and uh
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maybe try to insert some uh steel uh
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photos as well but it's uh it's a real
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really nice area uh it's a big draw for
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the Birmingham area uh just a few blocks
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away is the Birmingham Zoo which we'll
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try to uh we'll try to try to feature
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that later uh try to get there uh later
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but uh there's some folks out here today
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even though it uh it is has looked as if
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it might rain uh we've got several looks
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like several School groups out touring
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the gardens uh and there's there's
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different activities that you can find
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here okay I'm going to I'm going to
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relax a little bit here uh have a
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Birmingham botanical gardens is
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Alabama's largest living museum with
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more than 12,000 different plants and
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its living collections the gardens's
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67.5 Acres contain over 25 unique
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Gardens and um over 30 works of original
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outdoor sculpture and miles of serene
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paths the gardens features the largest
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public horiculture library in the United
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States
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conservatories a wild flower garden two
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rose gardens the Southern Living Garden
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in Japanese Gardens with a traditionally
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crafted Tea House education programs run
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year around and over 10,000 school
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children enjoy free science curriculum
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based field trips
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annually Birmingham botanical gardens is
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the most visited free attraction in
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Alabama and is open daily Dusk to dark
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every day of the year offering free
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admission to more than
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350,000 yearly
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visitors among the gardens are the
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garden center
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the
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library a leaf and pedal at the Garden
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gift shop and the gardens's cafe by
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Kathy
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G prior to 1960 a Birmingham Botanical
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Garden was only an
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idea that year Birmingham mayor James W
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Morgan spearheaded the movement to
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establish the Gardens on 69 Acres east
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of the city zoo in Lane Park on the
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south side of red
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Mountain despite objections from the
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Park and Recreation board mayor Morgan
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went to Montreal Canada to inspect the
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green houses at the Montreal Botanical
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Gardens and ask their curator Dr Henry e
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tusher to design a master plan for
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Birmingham Morgan invisioned
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birmingham's Gardens as the biggest
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attraction of this type in the
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Southeast in 1964 the Birmingham
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botanical Society Incorporated a
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nonprofit corporation was founded as a
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membership organization to support and
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improve the
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Gardens from that day forward the
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society's volunteers fundraising efforts
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and support staff helped maintain and
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develop the gardens today both the city
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of Birmingham and Birmingham Botanical
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Society are committed to the continuing
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growth of the gardens this public
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private partnership began in October of
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1964 one year after the official opening
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of the gardens that supports and
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improves the
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gardens in November 2011 friends hired
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its first paid executive
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director Mr Frederick R Spicer
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Jr the executive director links the city
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and Friends of the gardens by working
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with both the Birmingham Parks and
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Recreation board and the nonprofit board
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of
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directors the garden 67 and A2 acres is
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filled with more than 30 thematic
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Gardens each one classified into one of
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three types A Gardens of collection
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Gardens of Nature and Gardens of
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culture within The Gardens of collection
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which focuses on a specific plant genus
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family or other identified group are the
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Abrams rodendan Species Garden the
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allamerican selections Garden
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display Asian Glade crepe myrtle Garden
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Curry rot a dendron
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garden the dun formal Rose Garden the
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fern Glade the hes chamia Garden the
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hosta walk Hy Woods Ireland Iris Garden
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the Ireland oldfashioned rose garden and
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the Jimson Lily
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Garden within The Gardens of nature
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which focuses on native plants of the
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Southeastern us and ecogeographical
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plant groups are the barber Alabama
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woodlands and the called Wild Flower
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Garden within The Gardens of culture
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which focuses on a particular design
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style or an aspect of human culture you
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will find the blunt Plaza the Bruno
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vegetable garden the enabling Garden the
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formal Garden the formal Garden the
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garden center and entrance Garden the
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herb Terrace the hill Garden the
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Japanese garden the little ones memory
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garden and the MC renolds Garden along
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with the parking lot Gardens the Rushton
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Garden the southern living garden and
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the Thompson Enthusiast
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Garden visitors will all find will also
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find other areas of
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Interest including the
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conservatory the garden center the garac
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plant information center the Lawler
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Gates the sonat lake and entrance and
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the Moon tree
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The Gardens of course are fully
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handicapped
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accessible uh got nice wide walkways and
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seats scattered throughout the gardens
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nice little pools we'll walk down uh
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walk down this nice uh path to the
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Japanese Gardens and of course we've got
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all these nice trees
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above a lot of trees here uh are
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examples of the type of trees that you
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find here in the southern
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USA and of course the Japanese Gardens
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are very popular uh probably one of the
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bigger attractions here in the gardens a
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lot of people come here for weddings and
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uh reunions and uh various various
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events we'll walk down the trail here go
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through the nice bright red entrance
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again
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Gates and uh you have a nice little
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Trail here that leads down to the U to
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the Japanese
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Gardens and of course
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uh and once in the
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gardens uh you find that uh there's a
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lot of nice seating areas here and uh
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nice little places together a lot lot of
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people come
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here uh you have a rather
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large pool two little bridges that cross
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the
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pool and um got some I guess they're
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goldfish or maybe some koi fish in the
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uh in the pool here but uh they kind of
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uh like to come up
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uh when people are around and I think
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probably some people may throw them out
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some food
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occasionally um like I say this is this
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is a popular part of the
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gardens and uh very relaxing water is
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very relaxing
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here and uh there's a trail that that
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goes all the way around the large pool
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area as well as these two uh two
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Bridges a lot of people come here
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for photography have have pictures taken
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uh you know wedding wedding photos and
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that sort of thing the Little Red Bridge
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over there is of course very popular and
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we'll uh we'll walk on around and uh and
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get over there very
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shortly this is a nice cool place on a
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on a hot day like
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today a lot of people uh come here for
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photographs and stand here on the
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bridge and of course now we can start
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our walk back to the uh to the
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entrance uh we hope you've enjoyed uh
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our tour today of the Birmingham
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Botanical Garden
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and of course coming into the gardens
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and going out you will see the uh I
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guess you would call that the classic uh
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formal formal rose
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garden and
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uh this is some nice color
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