Actual flower Farms are landuse=farmland crop=flowers. Yea, they may have a 
viewpoint and a gift shop. But those large commercial farms are not what I'm 
talking about. 

These are about tagging the actual beds of decorative flowers with 
landuse=flowerbed (which I think is totally a landuse - it is land dedicated to 
flowers for display or decoration), and tagging gardens that are "flower 
spectacles" - places that grow flowers primarily as a spectacle (and often 
charge admission) using a garden:type=foobar is the two tags I am asking for 
feedback on. Landuse=grass is crappy - is it for sports? picnicing? Roadside 
shoulder? Landscaping? 

Luckily flowers in a non-farm sense serve a single purpose - to be looked at. 
They are colorful decorations. You don't sleep on them. You don't play sports 
on them. People grow flowers in dedicated land merely to be enjoyed. 

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Several places around the world grow tulips and build a Dutch windmill to 
emulate a working landuse=farmland - but just as Space Mountain is neither a 
spaceship nor an actual mountain, these are tourist attractions made to emulate 
the look of a farm for people looking to take pictures. These fall into the 
category of "flower attractions" and I want to tag these as such. 

When I lived in San diego, the only thing I had ever seen like this is the 
Carlsbad flower fields. There are formal botanical gardens and rose gardens - 
but a town or large commercial park just doesn't purposefully grow very large 
fields of flowers in a large field and put out a viewing platform like they do 
in Japan *and* get hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of people a week 
that come to just merely view the spectacle  that they purposefully made, year 
after year in the same spot and static configuration. 

Maybe it is common in the rest of the world, but these flower spectacles (and 
their dedicated area just for flowers) seems something that needs precise 
tagging. 

Javbw

> On Apr 10, 2018, at 2:19 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote:
> 
> In John Wills original post he talked about tulip farms. T

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