Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden at CSULB

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On the entry drive area of the garden, the plants along the street side of the service road are: Flowering peach (pink flowers, seen all over campus in the spring) Japanese Yew (all along inside of fence) Sweetshade (tall, thin trees) Azaleas ("Glory of Sunninghill") Dwarf Tobira Indian Hawthorne And the plants on the garden side are: Mock Orange (Tobira) Cotoneaster (red berries) Flowering Plum (red leaves)-blooms in mid February or March Ginkgo Trees (fan-shaped leaves)-3rd or 4th oldest tree in the world. Long green stems, no bark) Snowball Viburnum-blooms in early summer Azaleas ("Glory of Sunninghill") ("Fielder's White") ("Redbirds")
On the right side of the path, there is a large Kasuga stone lantern. The stepping stone near the base is for the lantern lighter. This artifact, like many others, was imported from Japan. In ancient history the lanterns were used for illumination purposes, but now they are only used as ornaments to the garden. Generally, the lanterns are sculpted to abstractly depict certain animals and this one depicts a deer with resemblance to the horns and hoofs. The mid section has resemblance to the tail and face while the top of the lantern has a Giboshi fertility symbol which is very prominent in Asian culture. Except for this particular lantern, all of the stone ornaments in the garden were personally selected by L. C. Miller in Japan and imported here.
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