I’d love to see what this looks like from a higher vantage point but from the street it looks awesome:

A reader simply asks: “What is this?”

The question of this great garden comes up every year or so. Fortunately in Oct. ’09 The Post’s Answerman dug up the full story. In part:

“Burnap’s 16th Street garden featured an open lawn bordered with shrubbery. A high wall faced Florida Avenue and turned the corner at 16th before stepping down to a low wall and ornamental iron fence. At the rear of the property, four Doric columns held up a hanging garden. Most striking was the intricate latticework that covered most of the interior walls.”

The garden eventually came to be called the Henderson Manor Garden, named after the castlelike mansion on the other side of Florida Avenue. By 1938, 2108 16th St. NW had been closed for a few seasons, although fetes were still held in its garden.

All that remains of his garden are four crumbling columns. Why were they left untouched? That wall might be attached to the rowhouse at 1618 Florida Ave., making it more trouble than it’s worth to remove.

Read the full story here.

It’s easy to walk by without having any idea this cool history exists:

Well it felt like summer this weekend and the gardens were looking as good as ever. This is the great Biltmore triangle garden in Kalorama near Adams Morgan.

I keep thinking we are getting too late in the season for gardens but there are still a few good ones out there. This one is from Mt. Pleasant.

Still looking good in late September.

And a pretty awesome bench at that (from Shaw):

The reader writes:

“One weekend when we were out of town, a friend of ours “yard crashed” our house in Brookland and built this beautiful garden for us as a wedding present! We decorated it with our gnome and Buddha, but are really enjoying this awesome surprise gift.”

That is a very cool wedding present!

“Dear PoP,

Snapped this picture of our garden yesterday morning after placing the scarecrow out as a sign of ushering in Autumn Feels like Autumn but plants are definitely still in good shape after all the rain!!! Picture is of our home in NE.”

Beautiful.

From New Hampshire Avenue in Dupont.

It’s a really rare to see a garden looking this good on Sept. 1st. Props to a Petworth neighbor.