Hotel Gardens

During my vacation in Hawaii, I've seen so many great gardens and landscaping at the hotels and towns I've visited. Some many of the plants grown here would not grow well in Oregon. It is very humid and warm here. However, the impatients grown at the Grand Wailea do well in my backyard. But they grow so much bigger here and spread like a think carpet or blanket.
Here are pictures of some of my favorite plants I've seen here so far:

Gardening in Airports

Gardens and plants catch my eye when I see them in places where I don't expect them--like airport terminals.

At the Seattle-Tacoma airport on Saturday, I saw some planter boxes in the undercover area where I walked from my plane to inside the airport. I thought it was random to see red geraniums in a place surrounded by loud industrial equipment. Most people would probably just pass by them in a hurry to their next flight, but a few may stop for a moment to enjoy their pop of color against the gray Seattle sky. Hopefully more airports do things like this.