Japanese Gardens

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

The time line for the, I guess one would call it the Official Japanese Garden, according to a historian at the Japanese Museum, was from the 1800's to the 1910's. They say that the Japanese designed beautiful healthy Nurseries and Gardens. These gardens were works of art that even today the Japanese are famous for them and also famous for their spectacular gardening skills. Their gardens are famous all over the USA. Such as the ones in Miami Beach Florida, Kubota Gardens in Seattle Washington, and the Shoga Myaida gardens in New York, New York.
The Japanese have "Mastered" a unique design in gardening. It is hard to try to produce plantings such as those of the Japanese. When the Japanese sold their homes in the Los Angeles area, the buyers of those homes were shocked at the products that were left behind from Japanese farmers who grew produce in their own yards.
Even today you can still find many farmers or Nursery owners still maintaining, a not only beautiful garden, but gardens that have have a special unique design that only a talented Japanese gardener could create.
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[Anonymous]

And don't forget about the great Japanese garden at the Huntington Library. It was used for a scene in Memoirs of a Gesha. There is also a good Japanese garden in Balboa Park in San Diego and in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. My wife has a very good friend from Osaka and she said that the Japanese gardens in the US are often better than those in Japan. I haven't been to Japan so I can't say if this is true or not but it actually makes sense to me. The gardens in Japan were probably built as real gardens, while those in the US were built as models based on some kind of "ideal type" of Japanese garden and I expect the American builders were trying hard to make a truely "authentic" garden and in the process put more into their gardens than often was done in Japan.

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