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.

When I look at your island Where the love bird dwells I see today also The andromeda blooming. Oshi no sumu Kimi ga kono shima Kyô mireba Ashibi no hana mo Saki ni keru kamo.   Mikata no Ohogimi   Manyôshuû, vol. 20, no. 5411   trans. by M.V. Otake