Impending Sale of UCLA’s Japanese Garden
Bette Billet passed along the item below:
A place of natural beauty and quiet retreat in the Los Angeles community of Bel Air for more than fifty years, the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden was designed by noted Japanese landscape architect Nagao Sakurai* in 1959. The beautiful hillside garden, one of the finest examples of Japanese gardens in America, evokes the gardens of Kyoto and was donated to the University of California in 1982. Its survival is now under imminent threat.
The official announcement was made back in November http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/campus-to-sell-japanese-garden-218545.aspx
UPDATE: One source indicates the sale is to take place by the end of January http://belaironline.blogspot.com/2012/01/help-save-ucla-hannah-carter-japanese.html