Yu Garden

 

Yu Garden in Shanghai, China. Yu means garden in Chinese. I do not speak Chinese. My wife, who is guiding me here, does speak Chinese (Mandarin and Guizhou dialect) and tries to explain to to me. I kept trying to understand why some signs called it Yuyuan garden. I means garden garden? What about yuan?

Intricate pagodas, wildly twisted and eroded rocks, all floating above koi ponds. We got here as it started to rain which made the bridges slippery. Had to tread carefully because there are not handrails in all areas. I enjoyed the thrill of walking over the ponds in the rain.

Yu Garden as the rain is stopping

Textured floors made of stone mosaic. Beautiful!

Uniquely eroded rocks along the path

Tea flower are the characters in the Chinese name of this flower. In english we call it Camelia. This flower is in the same genus as Camelia Sinensis, the tea plant.

Sitting area surrounded by ponds where it is raining lightly.

Big Oak tree over the walkway

Groves of bamboo

A tree flower I do not recognize. Will it look like pea flowers?

Tall bamboo, but I will see taller

Intricately carved wooden chairs in one of the towers, it is still raining slightly outside in the koi ponds.

Weirdly eroded stones mounted symmetrically in front of smooth stone wall with scale like tile roof.

Eroded rock with bulbous end and multiple holes, shaped like end of a thigh bone.

My wife and translator who arranged for us to go here.

I love these Camelias

Chairs made of extremely dense twisted burl wood.

Pink cherry blossoms (March 27th)