Garden for Learning, Leisure; Nature Conservancy Creates Suburban Oasis of Unusual Plants

From: The Washington Post | Date: June 10, 1999| Author: Leef Smith | Copyright information

Maybe it's the wide expanse of pink and purple wildflowers, growing where your eye expects to find a stretch of lawn, that makes the half-acre garden off North Fairfax Drive in Arlington seem somewhat peculiar.

Or maybe it's the plants--many of them budding for the first time since they were tucked neatly into the earth in late October--that set the natural scenery apart from the other commercial landscapes.

Here the trees and flowers have funky contours and berries and flowers w...

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