点评:It’s not like it used to be 18 years ago when I first visited the gardens.
Caretakers seem to have neglected many of the areas.. looks like they are preserving water in the city and so plants are dying.
I had hoped to see many of the water features, but everything was shut down. 0 flowing water. Not even the waterfall in the Japanese garden had water running.
Now speaking of the Japanese garden. Saddest part of the entire trip for us. The water was green, no flow anywhere, you can no longer feed the koi fish and they look sad. The turtles are filled with so much algae it almost looks like their shells have hair.
They promote their membership more than they water the plants. Honestly the rose garden looks neglected. They aren’t even pruning the rose bushes.
Maybe if they took the time to actually have a beautiful area that looks green and luscious, memberships might start flowing in, but I wouldn’t waste the time or money to go there.
Oh and another sad part, they don’t have the butterflies anymore. You used to walk out of the conservatory area and have to check for hitchhikers, but although they left those signs, there are 0 butterflies. Except, we did see one (not in the conservatory area) landing on a dead flower.
Now I’m not one that likes to complain, but I noticed that the pet policy has changed, if you are going to bring your dog, please pick up after it. They really should have more stations for dog poop to clean up after them. So many dogs, I didn’t see any poop station areas or trash areas. Because of this, not only were dogs using the restrooms in many areas, there was trash thrown in many areas and we all know that the workers aren’t cleaning it, and if guests aren’t caring enough to not litter or pick up after their dogs, who’s left to do that job?
翻译:现在和18年前我第一次参观花园时大不相同了。
管理员似乎忽视了很多区域……看起来他们在城市里保护水源,所以植物都枯死了。
我原本希望看到很多水景,但所有设施都关闭了。没有流水。就连日式花园里的瀑布也没有水流。
现在说说日式花园。对我们来说,这是整个旅程中最令人难过的部分。水是绿色的,没有水流,你再也不能喂锦鲤了,它们看起来很伤心。乌龟身上长满了藻类,它们的壳几乎都长出了毛。
他们宣传会员的力度比浇水的力度更大。说实话,玫瑰园看起来被忽视了。他们甚至没有修剪玫瑰丛。
如果他们花点时间真正打造一个看起来绿意盎然的美丽区域,会员可能会开始涌入,但我不会浪费时间和金钱去那里。
哦,还有一件令人难过的事,他们现在没有蝴蝶了。以前你走出温室区域,得留意有没有搭便车的蝴蝶,但尽管他们留下了那些标志,蝴蝶却一个也没有。不过,我们确实看到过一只(不在温室区域)落在一朵枯萎的花上。
我不是一个喜欢抱怨的人,但我注意到宠物政策变了,如果你要带狗来,请清理它的粪便。他们真的应该多设几个狗粪站来清理它们。狗太多了,我竟然没看到任何狗粪站或垃圾站。正因为如此,不仅很多地方的狗都在上厕所,很多地方还扔垃圾,我们都知道工作人员根本不清理。如果客人不爱乱扔垃圾或清理狗的粪便,那还有谁来做这项工作呢?