点评:Sometimes efforts to improve a destination have the opposite effect. Such is the case with Selby Gardens. The rearrangement of displays is confusing and disorienting. Before we paid our hefty admission in exchange for very little value, we were told “The Conservatory is closed during Phase 2 renovations.” This information meant little to me. Not until I looked for the incredible orchid house (the sole reason my photographer-friend came from out of state) did we learn that “conservatory” was code for “orchid displays.”
Without the orchids, Selby Gardens is not worth a visit. Nothing there is more remarkable than the plants in my own average Florida backyard.
If you want someplace much, much more interesting and fun than Selby Gardens, go a few miles north on the Tamiami Trail and treat yourself to Jungle Gardens. You will find the same plants, but Jungle Gardens will wow you with a huge population of colorful birds and reptiles and a petting zoo. Kids and adults will love it.
翻译:有时,改善景点的努力反而会适得其反。塞尔比花园就是如此。展品的重新布置令人困惑,让人摸不着头脑。在我们支付了高昂的门票,却发现实际价值不高之前,工作人员告诉我们“温室正在二期翻修,暂时关闭”。这条信息对我来说毫无意义。直到我寻找那令人惊艳的兰花馆(这也是我那位摄影师朋友从外州专程前来的唯一原因),我们才明白“温室”其实就是“兰花展区”的代号。
没有兰花,塞尔比花园就不值得一游。那里没有什么比我家佛罗里达普通后院里的植物更令人称奇的了。
如果你想去一个比塞尔比花园更有趣、更精彩的地方,那就沿着塔米亚米小径向北行驶几英里,去丛林花园吧。那里也有同样的植物,但丛林花园里种类繁多的色彩斑斓的鸟类和爬行动物,以及一个可以和小动物互动的动物园,一定会让你叹为观止。大人小孩都会喜欢那里。