Reference information on gardens and suppliers visited on our May-June 2012 trip and organizations mentioned in this blog.
North American Japanese Garden Association
http://www.najga.org/cfm/index.cfm
Japanese Garden Research Network
Japanese Gardening Forum
http://japanesegardening.org/talk/index.php
Takeo Uesugi Associates
Grand Hyatt Atlanta (former Hotel Nikko)
http://www.grandatlanta.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels-grandatlanta/index.jsp?null
Atlanta Botanical Garden
http://www.atlantabotanicalgarden.org/our-gardens/garden-map
The Carter Center
http://www.cartercenter.org/index.html
Lush Life
http://lushlifehomegarden.com/
The Westervelt Company
Birmingham Botanical Gardens
http://www.bbgardens.org/gardens-culture.php
A Japanese Garden for New Orleans – Yakumo Nihon Teien
Imahara’s Botanical Garden
http://imaharasbotanicalgarden.blogspot.com/
Kumamoto-En at the San Antonio Botanical Garden
http://japanesegardening.org/kumamotoen/
Tea garden at Brackenridge Park
http://www.saparksfoundation.org/japaneseteagarden.html
Taniguchi garden at the Zilker Botanical Garden
http://www.zilkergarden.org/gardens/oriental.html
Fort Worth Botanic Garden
http://fwbg.org/gardens/japanese/
Weatherford Gardens
http://www.weatherfordgardens.com/Pages/aboutus.aspx
Metro Maples
http://www.metromaples.com/toc.htm
Seiwa-En at Missouri Botanical Garden
Anderson Japanese Gardens
http://andersongardens.org/plan-your-visit/
Rosecrance in Rockford
Rotary Botanical Gardens (Note: didn’t get to see this one.)
http://rotarybotanicalgardens.org/
Chicago Botanic Garden: Elizabeth Hubert Malott Japanese Garden also called Sansho-en
http://www.chicagobotanic.org/explore/japanese.php
Osaka Garden at Jackson Park
http://www.osakacity.org/en/sisterCities/osakaGarden.aspx
Westin Hotel (former Hotel Nikko)
http://www.jgarden.org/gardens.asp?ID=314
Denver Botanic Gardens
http://www.botanicgardens.org/our-gardens/york-street/individual-gardens/japanese-garden
Western Colorado Botanic Gardens
http://www.wcbotanic.org/history.html
Hida Tool
UC Berkeley Botanical Garden
http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/root_images/programs/fall_10/japanese_garden.html
Lake Merritt Japanese Garden
http://www.jgarden.org/gardens.asp?ID=269
San Francisco Japan Town
Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park
http://japaneseteagardensf.com/
Strybing Arboretum (Note: Now known as the San Francisco Botanical Garden. We didn’t get to see this one.)
This list was prepared before we left for our garden journey. We were unable to visit two gardens on this list: the Rotary garden in Janesville Wisconsin, and the Strybing Arboretum AKA the San Francisco Botanical Garden. In addition to this listing, we were able to visit two temple gardens, two private residential gardens and one private corporate garden which do not have URLs.