✦ hidden gem
Quiet Places · Ladd’s Addition
Ninebark Tea Garden
A pocket garden behind an unmarked cedar gate, where tea is poured slowly and nobody checks the time.
- Best time
- Weekday afternoons, just after rain
- Effort
- An easy outing
- Good for
- unwind · be surprised
Why we love it
The owner planted every fern herself over eleven years. Sit under the paper lanterns at the back and the street noise simply stops. Phones feel wrong here — which is exactly the point.
now you know — go before everyone does
unfolding the map…