the Flower Graveyard:
the gardens on either side of the sidewalk leading to the UC.

So called because it seemed that flowers went there to die.

Every major occasion that had people visiting the campus in large numbers, the grounds staff would replant the flowers that had died because of neglect.

The cycle was:
1.) Plant flowers
2.) Let flowers die
3.) Plant new flowers
4.) Let new flowers die
5.) Go to step 3

The running joke among students was that we could tell whenever important people were going to visit because the groundskeepers were planting flowers there.



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