URL:   http://www.strybing.org/  Name: Strybing Arboretum and Botanical Gardens    Alternate Name: Takamine Garden; Moon-Viewing Garden  Address: Ninth Avenue at Lincoln Way  Mailing Address: Strybing Arboretum Society  City: San Francisco  State: California  Postal Code: 94122  Country: UNITED STATES  Latitude/Longitude: lat=37.7659; long=-122.4665 Find Gardens Nearby Weather:   Phone: +1.415.661.1316  Fax: +1.415.661.3539  E-Mail: webmaster@strybing.org  Contact:   Designer(s):   Contruction Date: Site established 1940  Public/Private: PUBLIC  Hours: 365 days a year. weekdays,8am to 4:30pm; weekends & holidays, 10am to 5pm  Admission: No admission  Added to JGarden: 1/1/1998  Last Updated: 8/3/2002  Sources: Strybing web site Lee Nelson at InetTours - http://www.inetours.com/Pages/SFNbrhds/GGP_Strybing.html  JGarden Description: Free guided tours given daily at 1:30pm Excellent library (10am - 4pm - closed on holidays) The botanical gardens include two Japanese-style sub-gardens. Takamine Garden highlights the Anelli Pond as well as stone lanterns, Japanese maples, sedge and water iris. The second garden is the Moon-Viewing Garden and Waterfall Garden. Water flows in a small stream from the Waterfall Garden to the pond at the Moon-Viewing Garden, which was a 1993 gift from the local chapter of Ikebana International. Japanese cherry trees bloom in late January or early February.

Is it a shower of rain? I thought as I listened. From my bed, just awake. But it was falling leaves Which could not stand the wind.   Saigyô   trans. by Bownas and Thwaite   12th century