Showing posts with label Point Defiance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Point Defiance. Show all posts

Monday, August 26, 2013

By Any Other Name, Would Marilyn Smell as Sweet?

There have been many highlights to my trip to the Pacific Northwest - the expected, like seeing Daughter Jessy and her S.O. David, and hiking at Mt. Rainier, and the unexpected, like The Garages, the Glass Bridge, and lemongrass chicken lumpia at the Lumpia World food truck at the Tacoma Farmers Market.
Another unexpected pleasure was the lush Rose Garden at Point Defiance Park. You're thinking, of course you should have expected to like a rose garden, they're pretty, but the unexpected fun was seeing the names assigned to each kind of bloom. Shakespeare says a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but maybe he would not have thought so if he had seen some of the names of these blooms.
Some names were perfectly apt. This bright and jazzy beauty is Brass Band.
Brass Band

This neon orange/gold winner has the perfect name. After seeing it, I can't imagine it called anything else.
Las Vegas

Just before I checked the name of this lush and curvy beauty, Hubby told me he thought it had a beautiful shape.
Marilyn Monroe

I kid you not.
This light yellow is something I'd like to see every morning.
Sunshine Daydream

The Namers of the Rose are not above a pun, as Scent from Above for a tall climber and Scentimental for a baby pink sweetie prove.
Mostly, I was impressed by how well the qualities of the flower were captured in the name.
Writers, what are your thoughts when you name a character? Gardeners, do you know the name of your favorite bloom?