2022
Amazing garden photos. Makes me want to go visit every one of these beautiful places!
For me, one of my favorite gardens is a one within the larger main city park, called Central Park, in San Mateo, CA, south of San Francisco.
Central Park is in the middle of downtown San Mateo, which also has a Rose Garden, a 50+ year old Japanese Tea Garden that was designed by the landscape architect who designed the Imperial Gardens in Tokyo, the city's Community Center that has Japanese-inspired architecture with its own Japanese garden filled with well-loved Bonsai trees, the Kohl's Pumphouse Garden and the location for the San Mateo Arboretum Society.
The smaller gardens are supported by locals, who are garden enthusiasts who volunteer their time, energy and money, for residents of San Mateo and anyone who visits Central Park.
The Rose Garden is filled with well-tended roses, some with fragrance. It's quite spectacular to walk around during summer months. Every once in a while you do see a wedding ceremony happening in the gazebo.
The San Mateo Arboretum Society is the dedicated volunteer non-profit organization that supports the special gardens in the city and offers gardening workshops to the community. One of the ways it raises money to pay for their programs and teach people how to garden is what the volunteers grow and sell from their greenhouse and plant nursery.
Visiting the San Mateo Arboretum Society's plant nursery is always a calming, fun influence. The volunteers can answer just about any plant question (or know someone who can answer). Anything you buy goes back to the community in terms of horticultural programs.
Central Park, overall is flat, and accessible to everyone, disabled and parents with strollers. There is both street parking and a parking garage under the Central Park's tennis courts (which also has a ramp that comes in handy if you use a wheelchair or push a stroller).
And, the best part of all, it's all free, even visiting the Japanese Tea Garden, which also can be rented (for a nominal fee) for an outdoor wedding.
Cheers,
Karen
San Francisco Bay Area Local Guide
En Buenos Aires, en la CABA, existe un lugar que visite hace varios años llamado el Jardín Japonés, es un lugar idílico, casi único, donde todo te da un sentimiento interno de paz y tranquilidad, su creación data de 1967 por la colectividad japonesa en honor a la visita de los actuales reyes japoneses. Todo en el es muy delicado, nada fuera de lugar, zen. Las fotos son pre era digital.
I can't choose between the Keukenhof garden in the Netherlands where I took many photos in many years, like the orange flower one above.
The Keukenhof has every year a different theme, this year it is Dutch design
Or the most Northern botanical garden of the world in Akureyri where I took the photo above.
Both are amazing gardens, but are very different.
