Japanese gardens (日本の庭)

I am visiting the geek during his study leave at the University of Osaka. He's staying on the Toyonaka campus, and we walk past this street garden on our way to the Ishibashi train station each day.

Also on our route through the Toyonaka campus from the residence to the train is this fabulous expanse of azalea hedge. The geek wants to plant something similar at home.

Today I visited Kyoto, and went to the garden of the Heian Jingu Shrine, where I saw lots of water lillies and more azaleas and a heron.

In a Japanese garden "careful maintenance" is taken to extremes. Nothing is left to chance! Here is a tree being shown precisely the canopy it is supposed to become:

Ah well, it's all good fun until somebody gets hurt. And so on.