Source
Materials is my new label for
posts about things from outside
Disney theme parks that influence decisions about what to include
inside
the parks. For instance, I have retroactively re-classified my
two-part post about heraldry in Fantasyland as a Source Materials
post. There probably won't be too many of these; most of the stuff
that would qualify has been gone over, extensively and in more depth
than I think I would muster, by other bloggers. (Check out the
sidebar for some of them!)
It's
June now. What can I write about that goes well with June?
Gardening?
Did I hear gardening? Gardening it is. It turns out to be a fertile*
subject where Disneyland is concerned. The park's Horticulture
Department is quite the unsung hero, producing magnificent work
pretty much across the board, from the obvious:
to
the subtle:
People
certainly notice the lovely
trees and garden beds throughout Disneyland, but only rarely is
attention deliberately drawn toward them. It's even rarer that the
specific choices made by the Horticulture Department get any focus,
even though they're often brilliantly on-the-nose. Magnolia trees in
New Orleans Square and edelweiss around the base of the Matterhorn
are just the tip of the iceberg (lettuce).** In many cases, the
appropriateness is more than just geographic.
Here
are a few of my favorites.
