Huntington’s Chinese Garden - Members’ Preview
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Today was The Huntington Library’s exclusive opening of the Garden of Flowering Fragrance. Being a member, I couldn’t pass the opportunity to see this new area of the Huntington.
From their website:
Some 10 years in the making, The Garden of Flowing Fragrance, or Liu Fang Yuan, is now slated to open to the public Feb. 23, 2008, at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. A remarkable and ambitious undertaking for the Los Angeles-area institution, the garden reflects traditional Suzhou-style scholar gardens and features a 1.5-acre lake, a complex of pavilions, a tea house and tea shop, and five stone bridges, set against a wooded backdrop of mature oaks and pines. This initial phase of the garden covers about 3.5 acres of a planned 12-acre site. Development of future phases of the Chinese Garden will proceed over a period of years.
A dedication ceremony for donors and dignitaries is planned for Feb. 16, followed by a week of previews for Huntington members. As the opening approaches, the garden’s look and feel continue to evolve as several dozen Chinese artisans spend the summer and fall assembling the “cloud wall,” pavilions, and other structures. The garden’s formal name, Liu Fang Yuan, was announced in June. more…
Here’s some pics I took:
More photos of this event on flickr.
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