Mabel Bell's century-old gardens bloom again in Cape Breton
This garden plot was planted with the same species of wildflowers that Mabel Bell would have grown at her property, Beinn Bhreagh, in Baddeck. (Emi...
This garden plot was planted with the same species of wildflowers that Mabel Bell would have grown at her property, Beinn Bhreagh, in Baddeck. (Emily Latimer - image credit) When an old safe was opened at Alexander Graham Bell's estate in Baddeck, N.S., thousands of documents and images were found detailing his wife's elaborate gardens. That discovery three years ago sparked an idea to recreate Mabel Hubbard Bell's gardens at the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site in Baddeck. Parks Canada, the Alexander Graham Bell Foundation, and a researcher at Cape Breton University teamed up to bring Hubbard Bell's gardens to life on the museum grounds, more than 100 years later.