Touring the Norfolk
Botanical Garden with Juilliard Graduate Florence Paget by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget
The
weather stayed clear for my sister’s visit to Norfolk (Virginia). We drove to the Norfolk Botanical Garden,
which sits on 155 acres of peninsula on Little Creek.
This
was my first visit to this tourist attraction located ten minutes away from our
apartment and five minutes away from Florence’s school. We chose to walk through the garden instead
of taking the train or boat trips through the garden.
We
made the right choice. The Japanese
garden had lots of big rocks at the entrance.
Traditional Japanese gardens are made with vistas in mind; there are
photo opportunities everywhere you stop.
The Japanese garden alone is worth the price of admission to the Botanical
Garden.
There
is also a Colonial Garden here that has many flowers and herbs growing that
were used for home cures. We discovered
that St. John’s Wort is good for warding off the “evil spirit” in the Colonial
Garden.
There
was a large rose garden here that smelled wonderful in the hot and humid weather
thanks to all the antique roses.
Florence
and I would visit the rose garden every day after school when I got a
membership for the Botanical Garden from my sister as a gift. We would check out the blooming board and
look at other flowers and then have a small snack at the café. They had a wonderful gift shop, too.
I
still like visiting places with botanic gardens thanks to Norfolk (Virginia).
By
Ruth Pennington Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
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