On the other side of Avenida de Libertador, about ten small city blocks from our apartment, is Jardin Japonés, a parque with koi-filled ponds, statues of famous samurai, a sushi restaurant and a great little greenhouse where we purchased three plants for our lanai: a ficus, a small pine-ish tree, and a plant that I think is an African Violet.
Erin, Maile and the boys have since returned to sample the sushi, but our first trip was a one-hour exploration of the bridges and ponds. Quinn and Jack got a close-up look at flower buds soon-to-open once spring settles upon them. We couldn't decide if the buds look deceived and have peeked out from behind their tightly squeezed fists, or if the slivers of green and pink that we saw are normal. Such seasonal rookies we are!
The oasis in the middle of Palermo was a nice respite from the loud cars and colectivos that we hear all night and day. Jack mimicked mouths of the two-man submarine sized koi – we found too late that we can buy food for them in the greenhouse, but next time we'll fill their bellies. In the greenhouse we found the plants we bought, and a few small fish tanks filled with guppies, but the best part of the garden that day was discovering these small albino frogs, ranas africanas, in a tank in the greenhouse store.
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