San Antonio Japanese tea garden in the United States

位置：美国

分类：公园

内容：实景照片

景观设计

：Dionicio Rodriguez, W.S. Delery, Ray Lambert

图片：28张

San Antonio日式茶园已经有90多年的历史了，它之前是一座被遗弃的石灰石采矿场，曾对经济的发展发挥过重要的作用。这里之前还被设计为德州城市工程园区。由于该茶园临近Brackenridge公园和San Antonio动物园，所以这里的人络绎不绝。游客可以走上小山可以看到一个塔。站在塔顶可以一览周围美丽的风景，有池塘、石桥和瀑布等等。

设计的方案来自Ray Lambert,他曾是城市公园委员会的成员，于1915年利用当地周围的一切资源建造了走道、桥梁小岛等。这是一处独特而又漂亮的茶园，炎热的夏天坐在这里更是一种享受。园内有庇荫小道和大片的近水区域，人们很容易找到一处特别凉爽的地方来休息放松。很多人都喜欢带着孩子来这个有东方特色和San Antonio历史文化色彩的茶园。

译者： 柒柒

The San Antonio Japanese Tea Garden, also known as the San Antonio Sunken Gardens, is a registered Texas historical landmark with over 90 years of rich history. Formerly an abandoned limestone quarry, the site was the source of limestone for much of San Antonio and it played a prominent role in the development of the cement business. In recognition of the landscape’s history, the San Antonio Japanese Tea Garden has also been designated as a Texas Civil Engineering Landmark as well.

Located near Brackenridge Park and the San Antonio Zoo, the Japanese Tea Garden is bit tucked away making it a destination that’s less likely to be stumbled upon. Visitors walk up a short hill past the base of the park to the open-air pagoda, from where, the moniker of “sunken gardens” becomes understood; at the top of the pagoda, there is a sweeping view of the grounds below, sprawling koi ponds, a 60-foot waterfall, stone bridges and exotic vegetation all studded with limestone.

The idea for the San Antonio Japanese Tea Garden came from Ray Lambert, who was the City Parks Commissioner at the time when the land was donated to the City in 1915 for a public park by Mrs. Emma Koehler, widow of Pearl Brewery owner Otto Koehler. Using prison labor, Lambert constructed walkways, bridges, an island and the pagoda from quarry materials. Exotic plantings donated by the City nursery and other sources were planted in lush groves between the quarry stones.

A truly unique and beautiful garden, I loved visiting the gardens, particularly on a hot day. With shaded walkways and proximity to water, the San Antonio Japanese Tea Garden is an excellent place to cool off or, to find a secluded nook to read in. Popular with families, I saw many of them seek out their own peaceful portion of the park to enjoy. This garden, however, rubs strongly against my conceptions of a Japanese garden, particularly with the heavy repetitive use of limestone everywhere. Despite Lambert’s intention of creating an authentic Japanese tea garden–he even researched and imported Japanese plants and koi fish is in abundance–the use of jutting white limestone and the exotic, tropical plant palette of palms makes the garden stray heavily away from the look of traditional Japanese gardens. Rather, it’s an interesting intersection of San Antonio history and eastern influences.

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