We visited the US Botanic Garden’s annual “Season’s Greenings” display titled “Roadside Attractions” featuring plant-based recreations of iconic sights from across the United States, with G gauge model trains chugging around, below, through and above the displays.

The Peachoid is a 135-foot-tall water tower constructed and painted to look like a peach. An example of novelty architecture, it holds 1 million gallons of water. The people of Gaffney selected the symbol of a peach for their water tower because at one point the county that Gaffney is located in produced more peaches per year than the entire state of Georgia. There is another such tower in Alabama.

Building materials: Peach, gourd; leaf, royal Poinciana pod; tower, palm fiber, horse chestnut

Watermelon Water Tower, Luling, Texas, posted earlier: