Top-ranked Japanese gardens

Note: I will be visiting New Zealand for several weeks, so there will not be a new post until December.

   In early October I visited Portland Japanese Garden, the top-ranked Japanese garden in North America.  I then went to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where I visited Nitobe Memorial Garden, the fourth-ranked Japanese garden.  I actually preferred Nitobe, mainly because I found their moss gardens to be the best in North America (next to my own, of course).
   The first six photos were from Portland Japanese Garden.  The last four were from Nitobe.  What appears to be grass in Nitobe is largely moss.