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5.0 of 5 stars.
My husband and I are in Portland for our honeymoon and EVERYONE said we had to visit the Rose Test Gardens. I didn't really know what to expect other than a bunch of roses, but it was really...
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Go here. Whether you're a native of the city or visiting for a few short hours, this place is worth your time.You might not even enjoy floral flowers and roses, but it's hard to go here and not enjoy...
yelp.com - user review - 09/26/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
A carpet of roses in a beautiful setting, this place is awesome! The air is filled with the scent of roses, like someone sprayed perfume all over. The variety of colors is insane, black, purple, so...
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4.0 of 5 stars.
darn, black roses aren't really black.
yelp.com - user review - 08/26/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
if you haven't visited, stop reading and head for the most beautiful colors and smells in town. You will also find a beautiful view of Portland and just down the slope one of the best playgrounds in...
yelp.com - user review - 08/25/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Beautiful. So romantic. I'm in love.
yelp.com - user review - 08/25/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Who ever said, "The best things in life are free." must have visited the International Rose Test Garden. I take my all visiting friends and relatives here, and everyone loves this place. EVERYONE!At...
yelp.com - user review - 08/20/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I wandered into this magical place after closing time at the japanese gardens. So many roses, so little time to stop and smell them all... but I tried. Peaceful, beautiful, educational, perfect...
yelp.com - user review - 08/19/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
holy gorgeous. this place is AMAZING! after taking in the zen of the japanese gardens, my crew and i wandered into the rose gardens...theyre very close by (and free...nice!). so many colors, so many...
yelp.com - user review - 08/19/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Washinton Park's Rose Test Garden is one of those places you have to see to believe. Especially if you visit Portland during the late spring or early summer, when the roses are in bloom. It is a...
yelp.com - user review - 08/18/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN SOOO MANY ROSES IN ONE PLACE!perfect timing to see them bloom!I was soo colorblind with the varieties and their names of each roses.This is a perfect place to have someone to...
yelp.com - user review - 08/09/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Amazing.But minus a star for the fact that it's crawling w/ people. A garden is one of the few places where it doesn't exactly enhance the experience to be in a crowd, IMO. But if you can go at an...
yelp.com - user review - 08/03/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
What an amazing place! Roses of every color and size imaginable, all set against the backdrop of Mt. Hood. It was very enjoyable to just roam around and check out all the varieties of flowers and...
yelp.com - user review - 07/11/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Just amazing sets of roses, and it was very easy to park, to walk around, and to stop and smell them!!! Even if you had just run a half-marathon and had to take 5 minutes to get down each set of...
yelp.com - user review - 07/04/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
If you dont have a poetic bone in your entire body then one is pretty much guaranteed to Insta- Grow because this place is amazing and everything your eye touches when you are there is sheer art. I...
yelp.com - user review - 06/29/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Loved it loved it loved it! My mom was soooo thrilled with this place as well. If you LOVE roses then this place is definitely somewhere you need to stop and visit and spend a lot of time smelling...
yelp.com - user review - 06/20/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
If you don't like roses, maybe this is only a three-star place.But, assuming you actually LIKE roses, this is a wonderful garden. It's nicely laid out, with a wide variety of roses, as well as some...
yelp.com - user review - 05/31/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
The Summary:Absolutely beautiful place that I would highly recommend to anyone heading through Portland. And it's free!The Background:Situated in the beautiful hills of Washington Park just a few...
yelp.com - user review - 02/04/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
anything less than 4 stars is just plain palinesque.
yelp.com - user review - 12/16/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
"Get a bush!" - some guy yelled at me & the boy.This place is pretty much the epitome of romantic. A garden overlooking the city with every shade of rose you can imagine with names like Pretty in...
yelp.com - user review - 12/02/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
this place was a nice prelude to the japanese garden. the colors were so vibrant! i wanted to take one of each and give them to my mom.
yelp.com - user review - 12/02/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
I never seem to come here at the right time. Either the flowers haven't bloomed yet or they are already dying off. It is still amazing to see so many varieties though. I really like the newer...
yelp.com - user review - 11/09/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Ahhhh lovely loveliness! Calming, beautiful, colorful, and FREE!! As a traveler, I would say this is a city treasure for Portland.
yelp.com - user review - 10/17/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I was looking for a black rose.They say it doesn't exist. I have yet to see one. Maybe at my funeral....."I would rather have one small rose From the garden of a friend Than to have the choicest...
yelp.com - user review - 10/10/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
There are some life lessons you've learned. Perhaps through your parents or religious affiliations, perhaps via personal experience or a respected elder. Heck, you may even have a leather bound copy...
yelp.com - user review - 10/07/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
You can't say that you've visited Portland, The City of Roses, without having stopped by the Rose Test Garden. Best things are free and this is one of them!see pics!
yelp.com - user review - 10/04/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
this place is full of good smells and harp music. i must have stuck my nose in a hundred different plants. mmmmmmmm
yelp.com - user review - 10/01/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This place is absolutely gorgeous. The fam and I went here on a beautifully sunny day earlier in September. I've never seen such a wide variety of roses. I had to keep on telling myself not to pick...
yelp.com - user review - 09/26/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
I think the garden is beautiful. The roses were blooming and very colorful. Yes, there were lots of people, but it wasn't that crowded that it bothered me. I hate crowded places, especially when I'm...
yelp.com - user review - 09/06/2008
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2.0 of 5 stars.
Okay, take all the bad points of Seattle: grungy, curt people, dirty down town area, and traffic from hell, and multiply it by 100 and you get Portland. Then take the good points of Seattle:...
yelp.com - user review - 09/05/2008
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2.0 of 5 stars.
Maybe I went during an off season or an off day... but I didn't see anything really exciting or extraordinary about their rose garden. A lot of the plants seemed to be bloomed and the rose petals...
yelp.com - user review - 09/03/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
"Hipsterism is a religion to which you've gotta be devout. You must be seen as in-between, unpopular and hated, or else get excommunicated." The lyrical styling of MC Frontalot dictates the credo of...
yelp.com - user review - 08/20/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Tons and tons of roses and treehuggers await you.. all for free!
yelp.com - user review - 08/17/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Ahhh, smell the roses, take in the thousands of colors, and the views. Great place to take out of towners like I did today. I should go more often. I got a snow cone to help me cool down on the way...
yelp.com - user review - 08/16/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I didn't know how to approach this one. Clearly people think it's awesome. I admit, if you love roses of all shapes, sizes, names, breeds, creeds, sexual orientation, species, colors, smells,...
yelp.com - user review - 08/09/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Absolutely stunning. It was sad to see that several flowers weren't in bloom, but there were just so many variations that you couldn't notice just by looking. I wish we had brought along a picnic...
yelp.com - user review - 07/23/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I am probably one of the only women in the world that doesn't go ga-ga over roses. I find them quite boring....I prefer sunflowers, black eyed susans, and daisies...actually pretty much any flower...
yelp.com - user review - 07/19/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This is a good place to spend a little time at on a hot summer afternoon since it's tucked away in the shadow of some nice tall trees. If you are feeling ambitious, you could even make like a few of...
yelp.com - user review - 07/08/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Roses bring me a special kind of joy. The joy that comes with eating a Happy Meal on a Tuesday night, corn salad on the Fourth of July, and rubbing an overweight pug's belly. So yeah, I enjoyed this.I...
yelp.com - user review - 07/06/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
This garden is just as it's name implies- a garden full of different varieties of roses being "tested". I wasn't extremely impressed by the roses, but maybe I'm just not the rose type of girl. I was...
yelp.com - user review - 06/30/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I don't even like roses. But my senses LOVE the rose garden! Lovely views, sweet smelling fragrances, and great people watching too!
yelp.com - user review - 06/25/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
So I'm not the biggest fan of rose gardens, but this place is really impressive. I spent much more time here than I initially thought I would, and I was actually interested!Still, I can't give it...
yelp.com - user review - 06/22/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
What beautiful sights and scents to behold! The 4.5-acre Garden contains 557 varieties of roses (over 6800 bushes) that bloom from April to October, peaking in June. This place is a...
yelp.com - user review - 06/19/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
booyah! 2 weeks later the park delivered! I hiked the Pittock mansion route and on the way back hit up the rose garden. My feet hurt, but I was soothed by the sight and fragrance of at least 100...
yelp.com - user review - 06/14/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I went in August so I only know that when I stepped out of the car the fragrance was amazing. And then the rows and rows of Roses .....every color and kind you could imagine. And all in perfect...
yelp.com - user review - 06/13/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
"I will buy you a garden where your flowers can bloom...I will buy you that big house way up in the west hills..."I always think of that Everclear song when I drive past those historic homes on my way...
yelp.com - user review - 05/20/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Some of my fondest memories are coming here with my first boyfriend . . . oh high school love! Part raging hormones, part romantic scenery. This is one of the most romantic parts of the city at dusk...
yelp.com - user review - 05/01/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
The amount of ground this rose garden covers is crazy!!! It's huge!!!Sadly, at my time of visit, the rose garden looked like the stick garden since it was still too chilly for the flowers to come out,...
yelp.com - user review - 04/20/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
My fiance and I visited the rose garden at a time when the flowers weren't in bloom unfortunately. But that didn't detract from the great view of downtown or the remarkable garden itself.I can't wait...
yelp.com - user review - 04/17/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
of all the places you can go and walk around for free in this city, i wouldnt make this my first choice. of course i got suckered into going here and boy was there a lot of old people. i thought that...
yelp.com - user review - 02/24/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
If you visit the City of Roses, you cannot avoid this place. Nor should you. The hubby and I have credentials which make it a mandatory stop. While we managed to catch it about a week before...
yelp.com - user review - 02/04/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Why yes, it IS a tourist destination, but that's because it's beautiful and affords one of the most famous skyline views of Portland oft-printed on postcards. So...even locals, like me, can...
yelp.com - user review - 01/31/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Portland's Rose Test Garden is one of many things that should not be missed on a visit here. I went after the peak blooms had made their appearance and was still stunned at the variety and the...
yelp.com - user review - 01/22/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This place is absolutely BEAUTIFUL, and I went before the roses were really in bloom (I have lousy timing). I'll have to make a point to go during it's peak next time.
yelp.com - user review - 01/06/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
When it wasn't wet I used to come here to relax and read on a Sunday. It's a gorgeous place to kill some time or have a picnic.
yelp.com - user review - 11/18/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I was at bar on my first night in Portland, chatting with some random guy, and the one thing he told me I should not miss during my trip was the Rose Garden. I'm glad I followed his advice: the Rose...
yelp.com - user review - 11/16/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
It sure is purty here, ma'am...but late October is not the best time to come visit since most of the roses are long past bloom and making their way back to fertilizer. However, there is enough variety...
yelp.com - user review - 10/27/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
GORGEOUS!You know that part in Happy Gilmore when Chubbs tells Happy to go to his "Happy Place?" This may be my new "happy place." :) Absolutely beautiful roses. Thousands and thousands of them,...
yelp.com - user review - 10/08/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I've never seen this many roses in my life. I'm trying to comprehend the amount of roses at this place. I just can't wrap my mind around it. Amazing.
yelp.com - user review - 09/29/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
so many varieties, the view, just everything. this garden is just amazing for being free and well maintained.
yelp.com - user review - 09/05/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Why Portland's called the City of Roses! It can get crowded, but it's free to go and explore. Did I mention it's free?
yelp.com - user review - 09/04/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
You'll swear someone Photoshop'd the roses before you got there. They are so bright and saturated it's unreal. I've seen my share of roses, but there are definitely some here I've never seen before....
yelp.com - user review - 08/19/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Wow, who is not to fall in love with this amazing International Rose Garden?! I thought it might be a cheesy rose garden with a few stalks of roses but boy, was I wrong, was I so wrong! This Rose Test...
yelp.com - user review - 08/13/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
[note: i am a tourist]so, there i was. in portland, and totally hungover. i wanted to eat, but i knew that if i ate anything i would regret it. so the boy was randomly driving around portland, and...
yelp.com - user review - 08/09/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
What a great place to spend the afternoon.While on my excursion to Portland, I made note that I really wanted to see their huge rose garden. Seattle has a few gardens but not to the scale that...
yelp.com - user review - 07/31/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I always hate being a conformist and giving a quick and easy 5 stars, especially when everyone else is as well...but this place really is quite impressive. A rose garden with hundreds of different...
yelp.com - user review - 07/30/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
It's roses, it's madness, it's rose madness!This is a gorgeous rose garden and it's a must see if you're headed to Washington Park. If you're on foot, then combine it with a nice stroll along NW 23rd...
yelp.com - user review - 07/27/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Anything deserves 5 stars if it's free. Whether you lived here your whole life or are just visiting, the Internatonal Rose Test Garden is definitely something you should experience at least once. You...
yelp.com - user review - 07/26/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
What a great place. Free to the public, it is an absolute delight to the senses. Row after row of exceptionally beautiful flowers, the landscaping is carefully detailed, and the view can't be beat....
yelp.com - user review - 07/23/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
The rose garden is an obvious stop for locals and tourists alike to appreciate Portland's favorite flower and ooh and ah over the gorgeous skyline of Mount Hood at the same time.Being a "test garden"...
yelp.com - user review - 06/11/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Great place for an afternoon, early evening walk. On a clear day there is an absolutely beautiful view of downtown and Mt. Hood. The garden is very well kept and the roses and stunning. Really, it's...
yelp.com - user review - 06/10/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Is it wrong of me to say that I find it beautiful in the middle of March when the flowers aren't even in bloom yet? It's just so serene and peaceful and fresh smelling. The bf, sister, and I took a...
yelp.com - user review - 03/21/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Quintessential Portland. Portland is the city of roses and you can come here to walk among a variety of rose bushes (all nicely labeled and scattered all over the hillside) all the while, you have a...
yelp.com - user review - 03/05/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
They don't call Portland the City of Roses for nothin'! This is a huge (supposedly one of the largest in the U.S.) beautiful rose garden with roses of all sizes & colors. And it's free! Looks like...
yelp.com - user review - 02/24/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Really cool.Its great anytime of year for something. You can take a run through it just about anytime and even if its not spring, its still beautiful. You feel like you are miles away from the city....
yelp.com - user review - 02/05/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Incredibly beautiful and totally free. I was in Portland years before I finally went to see why everyone raved, and now it's on my list of must sees for anyone that comes to visit.It's also very close...
yelp.com - user review - 01/31/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Portland is known as "the City of Roses" and one stroll around this heavenly garden and you instantly know why. I was fortunate enough to visit this garden in September and it was in full bloom. There...
yelp.com - user review - 01/04/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This is one of the largest, most beautiful gardens I have ever seen in my life. To sum it up, it's a delight to the senses. Visually, it is beautiful and the air smells like roses in bloom. They have...
yelp.com - user review - 12/26/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Absolutely stunning rose garden... and it's free to the public! I was just there this weekend and was so surprised that it's still gorgeous this late in the year! I can't imagine how pretty it must...
yelp.com - user review - 10/18/2006
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