Bonaventure Spring Blooms

Bonaventure Spring Blooms

“Of all the plants of these curious tree-gardens the most striking and characteristic is the so-called Long Moss (Tillandsia usneoides). It drapes all the branches from top to bottom, hanging in long silvery-gray skeins, reaching a length of not less than eight or ten feet, and when slowly waving in the wind they produce a solemn funereal effect singularly impressive” John Muir, 1867.

Bonaventure Spring Blooms
Bonaventure Spring Blooms
Bonaventure Spring Blooms
Bonaventure Spring Blooms

John Muir, founder of the US National Parks, naturalist, founder of the Sierra Club spent 6 days camping in Bonaventure. His writings contained many references to the cemetery.

Bonaventure Spring Blooms
Bonaventure Spring Blooms

Bonaventure is one of three gothic cemeteries originally envisioned as both a public park and cemetery. The property, like Charleston’s Magnolia Cemetery, was first a plantation and family cemetery.

Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia.

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