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>I believe Vancouver and San Francisco are the tops in this poll, but
> here in the south, some of our prettiest towns have something those
> cities don't have, beautiful blooming azalea bushes, dogwood trees,
> spanish moss d.d over live oak trees and alligators. My pick are
> these cities:
> 1) Charleston, SC
> 2) Savannah, Georgia
> 3) Wilmington, North Carolina
>
Have you ever been to Vancouver in the spring? I doubt it's significantly
different from Seattle, where I live. Here dogwoods and rhododendrons
(cousins of azaleas) are native. The residential neighborhoods are full of
blooming fruit trees, bulbs, rhodies and azaleas, white and pink dogwoods,
roses, etc. Yards are relatively large and mostly not fenced or walled in,
so passersby can enjoy the highly landscaped gardens. We took a trip to
Savannah and Charleston one spring and were somewhat disappointed in the
gardens. Azaleas definitely grew impressively high, but there wasn't a great
variety of flowering plants.
I especially remembering some very nice parks in Vancouver, with lots of
blooming plants. The Pacific Northwest is one of the great gardening
climates in the world, able to grow many of the plants developed in England.
But you're right. Absolutely no alligators.
Marianne
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