Patio garden at Austin’s Bureau de Poste bistro

After browsing astatine First Light Books recently, I checked retired the patio plot adjacent doorway astatine Bureau de Poste. Both First Light and Bureau de Poste are portion of the charming reimagining of a erstwhile station bureau successful Austin’s Hyde Park neighborhood successful 2023. If lone each redevelopment could beryllium this appealing!

I haven’t eaten astatine Bureau de Poste yet, but present it’s connected my must-try list. Meanwhile, here’s a stroll astir their inviting patio enclosed by beauteous instrumentality plantings.

Long alloy planters overflow with dwarf palmetto, reddish yucca, gaura, trailing rosemary, and purple heart. Fantastic!

Palmetto, purple heart, and gaura

Red yucca’s fishing-pole angiosperm spikes adhd question and colour and pull hummingbirds too.

A mural advertises the bistro and Tiny Grocer, a specialty marketplace with tempting foods and gifts.

Trees and shadiness sails structure the bistro’s outdoor tables from the Texas sun. I stake it’s pleasant astatine nighttime too, nether the drawstring lights. The important alloy planters connection a consciousness of enclosure and information portion keeping things green.

Can you judge this utilized to beryllium a utilitarian loading dock for the aged station office?

Next door, a Van Gogh-like mural caught my eye. It’s the aged Blue Moon Glassworks building.

A mural — oregon immoderate colored partition — makes an irresistible selfie backdrop. I’m definite I’ll beryllium backmost successful Hyde Park soon for different book, positive a caller eating acquisition astatine Bureau de Poste.

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