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I saw this bird of paradise plant in the Azores, a place which seems like paradise to me. It’s too cool where I live for tropical plants like these to have much success. But they thrive in the Azores, which are not much warmer than the Pacific Northwest. But the temperate plants I’m used to also thrive in the paradisiacal Azores.
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The Secret Garden was one of my favorite books growing up. So I was delighted to discover a garden hidden away on the top level of the parking garage at McCaw Hall. Years ago, rather than wasting time looking for a “good” spot, I always drove straight to the rooftop when I came to see the ballet or the opera. Somewhere along the line (probably when I started wearing high heels?) I changed my strategy and started parking elsewhere. When I heard that the roof had been converted to a P-Patch, I had to confirm it for myself. And there it was, the UpGarden, a secret garden right across the street from the Seattle Center.
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Well that’s a clickbaity title if I ever wrote one.
This classic car parked in a community garden on the roof of a parking garage in lower Queen Anne, and planted with perennials and ornamental grasses. The windows are painted with poetry:
Strange beautiful grass of green, with your
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Majestic silver seas, your mysterious mountains I
wish to see closer, may I land my kinky machine?
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Coastal Chinese cities are a far cry from Narnia, but I still half-expected Mr. Tumnus to trot by when I spotted this lamp post in a garden in Qingdao.
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Roses are so evocative of the English garden, it’s easy to forget that garden roses originated in China.