Garden
Zilker Botanical Garden
Hillside garden of koi ponds, a waterfall and an arched moon bridge, hand-built by one gardener.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Zilker Botanical Garden in Austin follows Isamu Taniguchi, a bonsai grower from Osaka who farmed in California before World War II, then spent years interned with his family at a Texas camp on suspicion alone. Decades later, in his seventies, he set out alone on a rocky corner of the park with no salary or crew, moved by a debt he felt he owed the city that had educated his sons at the University of Texas. His son Alan, by then a dean at the university, helped arrange the land.
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