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Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City is surrounded by urban gardens and parks which cover approximately within Temple Square, the LDS Conference Center and the area surrounding the LDS Church's headquarters. The garden on the rooftop of the Conference Center, by design, has no annual plants; it is mostly herbaceous perennials and woody plants.〔Larry A. Sagers (March 31st, 2012) (The Gardens at Temple Square ) KSL.com. Accessed 18 Nove 2013.〕 The gardens at Temple Square include 250 flower beds, over 165,000 bedding plants, and over 700 varieties of plants from all over the world.〔(Temple Square Gardens ) GardenVisit.com - accessed 18 Nove 2013.〕 The gardens are redesigned every six months and replanted mostly by volunteers and seven full-time supervising gardeners. The Salt Lake Temple used to have an attached greenhouse. Currently, the LDS Church operates four greenhouses away from Temple Square that grow all of the flowers and plants that are needed at the gardens. Most greenhouses have trial spaces to try the designs before implementing them on Temple Square. There is free general public access to all gardens on Temple Square. Guided tours are available to some of the gardens, including those on the roof of the Conference Center. The gardening staff and volunteers string more than three hundred thousand Christmas lights along branches of trees and shrubs and around flower beds.〔Dora D. Flack (Peter Lassig: Gardens to the Lord ) Portraits - Ensign Apr. 1991. Accessed 19 Nov 2013.〕 == History == The Salt Lake Valley was colonized by Mormon pioneers in the late 1840s. The valley had lots of creeks and streams that came out of the surrounding canyons that were lined primarily with poplars. Pioneer accounts indicate that people had to be on top of their horses and rise up in the saddle to see over the tall grass of what now is downtown Salt Lake City. Accounts seem to indicate that there only was one tree in the Valley, a juniper in an area near a monument on present day Sixth East and Third South.〔Gardens Of Temple Square - Episode 30 of ''Legacy'', created in cooperation with the Family History and Church History Departments. Available in MormonChannel.org - accessed 19 Nov 2013.〕 Church tradition has it that the garden concept originated from the suggestion of a general authority who, while traveling to the Eastern United States to visit the world's fair in 1893, wanted to bring to Salt Lake City the trees he saw in the exposition. Some of the grand elm trees planted on Temple Square from that year's world's fair still exist along the central walkway through Temple Square.〔Ryan Morgenegg (Nov. 5, 2011). (The secret of the gardens at Church headquarters ) ''Church News''.〕 Much of the initial proposals and organization of the gardens, as well as many LDS chapels and temples in Utah, began right after the Great Depression under the supervision of Irvin T. Nelson, a valedictorian from Weber State University. Nelson took over the supervision of the Temple Square gardens after the death of his predecessor in 1944.〔 The Olin Partnership landscape architectural firm from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania designed the LDS Conference Center landscape. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gardens at Temple Square」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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