go to the garden

Washington awakes today to a brand-new attraction on the edge of the Mall, a three-acre celebration of American horticulture called the National Garden. A more fitting name, perhaps, might be the jack-in-the-box garden -- it appears to have sprung from nowhere.
The first privately funded project on the Capitol grounds, the $11.5 million attraction occupies what was the last unused parcel of land on the north side of Independence Avenue. It is next to the U.S. Botanic Garden's conservatory and across Third Street SW from the National Museum of the American Indian. read the post article here