July 11, 2018

The Japanese Garden

Several weeks ago when I wrote about the Hahn Regional Park, I had a picture of the Japanese Garden there and noted that wasn’t as nice as the one at Descanso Gardens, The Huntington, or The Japanese Garden. Since you’ve seen pics of the Japanese gardens at Descanso and The Huntington, I thought some pics of the The Japanese Garden would be appropriate. The Japanese Garden is in the San Fernando Valley within the Sepulvelda Flood Control Basin. It’s Japanese name is SuihoEn(the garden of water and fragrance), and it’s appropriately named with extensive use of water and a “fragrance”. The unique, eh, fragrance(especially in the eastern portion of the garden reveal it’s original purpose. It was constructed by the City of Los Angeles in the early 1980’s to demonstrate that reclaimed water is safe and not unpleasant to be around. The “fragrance” is due to the adjoining sewage treatment plant(it’s mostly a chemical type of smell). So lets take a look around, it’s OK to breath the “fragrance” isn’t bad at all.