![]() Greeting visitors just inside are two ornate Foo dog-lions, also female and male. These trees are a female and a male, like the Chinese yin and yang. thunbergiana) inside the gate beside a stone basin. Its companions are three Japanese black pines ( P. Outside the gate is a Japanese red pine ( Pinus densiflora) with lacy bark and slender needles. The main gate is massive, with a day-tiled roof and three large doors of Alaskan cedar ( Chamaecyparis nootkatensis). Visitors pass through a roofed lower gate and walk up, enjoying the landscape even before the entrance is reached. The garden occupies a bluff 500 feet above the street, hidden in a forest of Douglas firs. From the parking lot to the center of the garden, care has been taken not to call attention to any one element, but to harmonize and relate settings one to another. Despite its size and diversity, in the Portland Japanese Garden, in fact a series of gardens, wholeness and unity are evident throughout. In most gardens an especially fine tree, a striking flower border, or a well placed building stands out and pleads for notice. Poetry stone in the Portland Japanese Garden ![]() “Here I saw the same soft spring as in Japan.”
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