Search Results for: Japanese
Garden: Paula's Butterfly and Bee Garden
Completed redesigned and replanted 7 years ago, this series of garden area covers two-thirds of an acre, with a view of Sausalito across the water. New stone walls were recently added to terrace the SW facing hill. The growing season begins with irises and then moves on to roses (100+) and then to dahlias. Other highlights of this pie-shaped property include a woodlands garden, 18 fruit trees, a redwood greenhouse, a succulent garden, an antique water pump collection and garden sculpture.
The garden features flowers at the warm end of the spectrum: apricot, orange, hot pink, red and burgundy with smaller doses of blue-purple and chartreuse.
Although the Zone 9b garden rarely sees frost conditions, Paula and Dennis Jaffe contend with less than ideal soil and climate challenges. Morning fog, clay soil, extreme wind and Southwest facing tiers with unrelenting sunshine are a few of the problems. The water shortage is also an ever present consideration.
Drip irrigation waters 100% of the plants with the lawn sprinkled by MP rotaters. Several compost areas and a worm farm provide the planting beds with a constant supply of natural fertilizer.
Garden: Asticou Azalea Garden
The beauty of the Azalea Garden changes and evolves throughout the year. A flowering cherry tree heralds the start of the season in mid-May, followed by azaleas and rhododendrons in many hues in late May through June. July blooms include Japanese iris, smoke bush, rosebay rhododendron, and the fragrant sweet azalea. August is quiet and serene, accented by blooming water lilies, and in September and October the garden glows with the colors of fall.
azalea garden bridge in fall
Rhododendrons and azaleas are planted throughout the garden, and many are native to the mountainous regions of the world. The Pink Shell Azalea, Rhododendron vaseyi, is native to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and provides much of the garden’s structure. It grows alongside Rhododendron kiusianum from the mountains of Japan and Rhododendron canadense, Maine's own native azalea. (Source: GardenPreserve.org)
Garden: Larry Ellison's Japanese Garden
This 10-hectare site is perhaps the most ambitious Japanese garden ever constructed in North America.
The estate includes a large waterfall, a cascade, a pond and seven buildings. A round stone bridge and pathways lead to a courtyard where guests can see the main residence (north and south wings) over the three-acre pond. The teahouse, which was re-assembled in Woodside after being brought from Japan, stands in a deep forest.
The garden is being constructed by Shigeru Namba, a Japanese garden builder. He has already moved 3,500 tons of rock. About 81,000 cubic yards of earth were moved from the pond and redistributed to make way for hills and islands. Over 500 trees were added to the 700 existing natural trees.
The estate's design is based on that of Katsura Rikyu. (Source: jgarden.org)
Garden: Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Birmingham Botanical Gardens is Alabama's largest living museum with more than 10,000 different plants in its living collections. The Gardens' 67.5 acres contains 25+ unique gardens, 30+ works of original outdoor sculpture and miles of serene paths.
The Gardens features the largest public horticulture library in the U.S., conservatories, a wildflower garden, two rose gardens, the Southern Living garden, and Japanese Gardens with a traditionally crafted tea house. Education programs run year round and over 10,000 school children enjoy free science-curriculum based field trips annually. (Source: http://www.bbgardens.org)
Garden: The Humes Stroll Garden
The Humes Garden is the finest example of a Japanese stroll garden in the Northeast United States, seamlessly integrating ageless Japanese landscape techniques with the woodland terrain of Long Island’s North Shore. The Garden Conservancy was instrumental in saving the garden from closing in 1993 and now manages the garden on behalf of the Humes Japanese Stroll Garden Foundation and oversees its long-term preservation. (Source: thegardenconservancy.org)
Garden: Miami Beach Botanical Garden
This 4.5 acre botanical garden is a showcase of orchids, tropical plants and trees, a Japanese Garden.
Garden: Morikami Japanese Garden
Opening in 1977 and expanding the Japanese garden in 2001, Morikami Museum and Japanese Garden is the center for Japanese culture in Southern Florida. The gardens consist of shinden islands, paradise garden, and contemporary garden.
Garden: Jessica's Old Coastal Garden
This was a garden that was on the edge of the bay. We had raised beds with dahlias, irises, and daylilies, a Japanese Maple, and lots of dune grass. The tidal marsh would flood our yard once a month, so all plants had to tolerate the salt very well. Lots of plants died, and it was a trial and error process to figure out what would work.
Garden: The Butchart Gardens
The Butchart Gardens at Todd Inlet, some 21 km from Victoria covers more than 55 acres of a 130 acre estate. The gardens were begun by Mr. and Mrs. Pim Butchart in an effort to beautify a worked-out quarry site.They decided to include it in their plans for landscaping their home grounds.
Many rare and exotic shrubs, trees and plants were personally collected by the couple in their world travels and thus began the "Sunken Garden."
The Gardens begun as a hobby by the Butcharts were constantly expanded and spilled over into the Rose, Italian and Japanese Gardens.
The Gardens are visited by more than a million visitors each year. (Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/virgomerry/sets/458295/ )
Garden: Botanical Garden of Smith College
On Site of Smith College, this botanical garden has it all: rock garden, Japanese garden, woodland garden, capen garden, and president's garden.
Garden: Japanese Garden at Showa Boston
Located at Boston's Japanese cultural center, this Japanese garden was built in 1996. Here you will find a variety of plants, and also a colorful Coy pond.
Garden: Ran Getsu Japanese Garden
Located on the grounds of an acclaimed restaurant, this small garden, equipped with Japanese maples among other plants, makes for a tranquil view while dining.
Garden: Fort Worth Botanic Gardens
Fort Worth Botanic Gardens is the oldest botanical garden in Texas, holding within its walls thousands of both native and exotic species of plants. the Fort Worth Botanic Garden also contains a traditional Japanese garden.
Garden: Japanese Friendship Garden
The Japanese Friendship Garden is located in Phoenix, AZ. The trees at this beautiful location, are: Indian Laurel Fig,Shamel Ash,Rio Grande Ash,Silk Oak,Jacaranda,Flaxleaf Paper,Mondel Pine,Aleppo Pine,Chinese Pastache,Purple Leaf Plum,Evergreen Pear, Heritage Live Oak, Brazilian Paper, Japanese Maple.
Garden: My little paradise
My backyard has an old pear tree, some flowers, tomatoes, lettuce, a water feature, a bench, a table with 4 chairs, a bird feeder, a bird house, a Japanese stone lantern, some solar lamps, a solar water fountain, etc.
Garden: Jade Hill Garden
Jade Hill is a hillside stroll garden with a varied collection of exotic plant material. A partial list includes dwarf yellow-stripe bamboo, fountain bamboo, lotus, magnolias, Japanese maples, and conifers. Trees, shrubs, and perennials have been planted to form a tapestry of color and texture. Features include a walk-through bamboo grove and goldfish ponds. An Oriental viewing pavilion cantilevered over a ledge overlooks a goldthemed garden. The rose garden has more than fifty varieties of hardy shrub roses. The garden was featured in the September 2006 issue of Better Homes & Gardens and the July 2007 issue of Hudson Valley.
Information taken from: http://gardenconservancy.org/opendays/gardens.pl?ID=10&IDEvent=231&SortBy=&State=
Garden: Mead Farm House Garden
On the site of a 250-year-old farmyard, this mature garden winds around a fair approximation of a nineteenth-century horse barn and utilizes rocky outcroppings and the stone foundations of long-gone farm buildings as the visual anchors of the perennial beds. The base of an old silo has become a deck from which one can gaze over a small pond at the distant landscape. Features include a bog garden and some interesting trees, including a sizeable Japanese umbrella pine planted about 1966.
Information taken from: http://gardenconservancy.org/opendays/gardens.pl?ID=12&IDEvent=231&SortBy=&State=
Garden: HOSTA HAVEN
Various beds of HOSTAS 350+ varieties, mixed with Azaleas, lilies, daylilies, heucheras, with many exotic trees;magnolia, tulip, Satomi dogwood, Japanese bloodgood maple, harlequin maple.
Garden: Praxis Permaculture
We live in an 1940 log house on 4.5acres, originally built from trees on the property by homesteaders on Gabriola Island. Some of the trees and flowers are here from the 1st owners, some new.
The property is a mix of native species forest (fir, maple, garry oak, arbutus, yew, cedar, pin cherry, alder); meadow; fruit (apples, plum, apricot, peach, blue-, straw- and raspberries); specimen trees & shrubs (japanese maples, liquid amber, mock orange, forsythia, lilac); perennial flowers & vegetables.
We have a fenced (from the deer) area around the house with raised beds and lots of rock walls and stone paths. Water - or the lack of it - is our main issue. We have no lawn and I cut the meadow grasses with a scythe.
We see ourselves as stewards of this property in which we want to encourage as much of the native species as possible. We work with a forest gardener to manage the treed areas (thinning dying and dangerous trees, planting new ones). We have a naturally wet area on the low point on the property and want to restore the it as a wetland with native plants and trees.
Our property is home to many species of insects inc. butterflies and bees, birds, snakes, tree frogs, deer - and we have planted species of flowers especially with them in mind. We try to grow heirloom varieties and have had heritage chickens in the past.
This year, for the first time, I am attempting to grow mushrooms by inoculating alder logs with white oyster and shiitake mushroom spawn.
Garden: Place de Mira
Started it 8 years ago when moved in. My first garden, so I am practicing with different themes. I have a Japanese, Mediterranean, Wildflower, English Country. The flowers are all white and mostly perennial. The grass is left as it was, full of clover, the white flowers blend in well.
Garden: Sheila's Garden
Was a lovely Japanese garden when we bought the house, but I've planted bulbs and a Rowan tee and a contorted willow, as well as lilies and roses and all sorts of non-Japanese flowers, so it doesn't look quite the same as it used to!
Garden: Chilliwack Grows
8 fruit trees, 5 flowering cherries, an ancient japanese maple and lots of perrienials
Garden: Claude Monet's Garden at Giverny
There are two parts in Monet's garden: a flower garden called Clos Normand in front of the house and a Japanese inspired water garden on the other side of the road.
The Clos Normand land is divided into flowerbeds where flower clumps of different heights create volume. Fruit trees or ornamental trees dominate the climbing roses, the long -stemmed hollyhocks and the coloured banks of annuals. Monet mixed the simplest flowers (daisies and poppies) with the most rare varieties.
The central alley is covered over by iron arches on which climbing roses grow. Other rose trees cover the balustrade along the house. At the end of the summer nasturtiums invade the soil in the central alley.
In this water garden you will find the famous Japanese bridge covered with wisterias, other smaller bridges, weeping willows, a bamboo wood and above all the famous nympheas which bloom all summer long. The pond and the surrounding vegetation form an enclosure separated from the surrounding countryside.
Garden: My front yard oasis in the city
This is a new garden started in fall 2007. Most plantings are from my back yard. Again, this garden is mostly perennials but I add bulbs for the spring.
Garden: Beach Rose House Garden
I started a perrennial garden on our 3 1/2 acre beach front property 3 years ago: It currently has day lilies, butterfly bush, lots of rose bushes (mostly hardy and climbing), hydrangea, lilac bushes, irises, black eyed susans, clematis, Beebom, hostas, lupins, an amazingly pretty lettuce garden my husband made etc...Already on the property were several blackberry bushes, several apple trees, several cherry trees, several rose bushes many years mature, lilac bushes. Arch nemesis: Asian or Japanese knotwood I have been battling in side garden for 4 years and just tackled a 1/2 acre pf it in the lower field closer to the beach.
Garden: Hummingbird Terrace
Backyard Garden with a focus of attracting Hummingbirds, Butterflies and various birds. We live across from a lagoon and receive a large number of birds come to our property. My husband is a landscaper so we are aiming for a terraced garden with two connecting water features, a veggie garden, mostly perennial plants with some annuals for color. We have built a backyard firepit patio and we plan to build a gazebo at some point for those rainy nights. We have a particular fondness for Japanese gardens and will combine some of those elements for esthetics.
Garden: Pleasure
Huge plot, mostly garden. Very cold winters - black frost. So mostly hardy plants and cover the less hardy ones in winter. A few different styles incorporated in different areas of garden from Japanese to cottage style.
Garden: From Long Island, US to Hong Kong
My ex-garden in Long Island,New York was on a good size of land. A lotus pond with lotus, waterlily and Koi fish; Tree Peony, Coreopsis, Japanese Maple, Pines, Dogwoods, Azalea, roses and Clementis... Spring,summer,fall,winter, spring... enchanting
to see the seasons change.
Now I move to Hong Kong in which private land garden is almost not existing, only with a hot and a cool season. It is a big void without any plant life around, so I created this balcony garden to fill the void - from 8000 sq ft to 38 sq ft - what a drastic
change! But that little sacred space capsulizes the universal joy of gardening -
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Garden: Vegetable Garden
I enjoy the making of Japanese vegetables by organic farming in the backyard of the house.
Garden: v. stumpfeldts individual garden
our garden is planted with differnt kinds of flowers, a japanese bambootree at the boundary, a nice pine trees too, flowers planted in different styles of flowervases/pots,.........
Garden: Sue's Passion
1000+ sq metres around my house.Southwards: 'tropicals'and lawn;west:lawn and roses and cedrus pedula;north-west:lawn and new perennial border and shrubbery;north:narrow'Japanese' garden with small pond and patio with raised herb beds.
Garden: Kodaiji Temple Gardens
I've only seen the Kodaiji temple garden once - and by night - but the illuminated architecture, pond, and bamboo were unforgettable. I've created these Japanese garden profiles on GardenJot for anyone interested in visiting the best gardens of Kyoto, but unfortunately I don't know them so well myself. I suppose I'm overflowing with enthusiasm but ignorance for all of these gardens. They're so far from my American upbringing and adopted Italian way of gardening and living, yet I can't help admiring their beauty and sense of peace. I look forward to returning here in November of 2010.
Garden: The Sanctuary
I plan to make a garden composed of roses,daisies and vegetables such as lettuce,tomatoes and other veggies suited for cultivating here in Anderlues,Belgium.I also intend to have waterfalls in a Japanese-inspired Zen type corner garden.
Garden: Bring some of America to Japan
Just a garden that is trying to bring some of home here to Japan. A small English garden style in the front and a bordered lawn in the backyard with something of a Japanese style garden in one corner.
Garden: Tofuku-ji Temple Garden
The Gardens at Tofuku-ji are most famous for the Showa Period (1926-1989) design by Shigemori Mirei. I'm normally not wild about square shapes in Japanese gardens or any gardens for that matter, but this is one exception.
The square azelea bushes and moss/gravel area are quite a let-down in mid summer - moss burnt to a rusty red colour by the summer heat, but just around the corner lies a year-round gem: a checkerboard pattern (called ichimatsu moyo in Japanese) made of flat square stones embedded in a soft carpet of spruce moss that slowly dissolves into the "natural" landscape, fewer and fewer stones placed in the moss as the eye moves away from the temple precint into nature. The dry lanscape garden on the southern side of the main hall was surely innovative for its time because of the size and quantity of stones and extreme verticality of some of them, but the overall effect is not really that beautiful or interesting. While far from jarring, it's definitely not as calm or as solemn as compositions made in other traditional Zen gardens. It just doesn't feel quite right, but don't ask me why. Have a look at the photos and decide for yourself.
Maybe those round stones were the bases of the temple that burned. I'll have to check on that.
Garden: A mix of Celtic and Japanese culture
Pagodas, chinese lanterns, buddha and bonsais in the midle of Dolmen, slanting stones and stone circles all surrounded by rockery, pond, pines, rhododendron, japanese maples and alpine plants.
Garden: Japanese Garden in Grand Forks
People walk the grounds of the Japanese Gardens in Grands Forks to escape the hustle and bustle of their daily lives. The garden was developed and completed by representatives from Awano, Japan, Grand Forks' sister city.
Source: http://www.gfparks.org/japanesegardens.htm
Garden: Amarillo Botanical Gardens
The Amarillo Botanical Gardens features a recently constructed tropical conservatory which showcases a flourishing indoor collection of exotic plants. Open year round, the conservatory creates a spectacular backdrop to the surrounding four acres of seasonal landscape. Explore the diverse natural beauty of numerous outdoor themed plantings which include Japanese, fragrance, xeric and butterfly gardens.
Source: http://www.amarillobotanicalgardens.org/index.php
Garden: Prague Botanical Gardens (Prazska Botanicka Z
Japanese Garden is considered to be the most attractive section of the Prague Botanical Gardens' Open Air Exhibitions. This part of the botanical garden invites all visitors to quiet down and relax. Selection of plants and their placement has been adjusted to emphasize the grace of evergreen shrubs, conifers and deciduous trees; the changes of scenery during the year are envisaged. This garden is divided into two subsections. The first one represents the “landscape with mountains, trees, stream and lake”. Its dominant is the lake with a turtle-shaped islet, where the turtle is the symbol of longevity. Grouping of stones between the bank and the islet is symbolizing ships, heading to the islet and therefore is called “stones of night expectation”.
Source: http://www.botanicka.cz/hlavni-stranka/obecne-informace-en.html?page_id=1186
Garden: Lakeside grove miniature garden
Refer to www.gardenoftony@blogspot.com
We build our very own Chinese and Japanese Garden known as Lakeside grove mimiature garden.
Garden: The Winding Path
Surrounding the patio, I have various perennials (did pansies for years)
with young trees along the sidewalk. I love maple trees, so planted a Japanese red maple in the middle and a new friend nearby. The corner of the garden shelters a Butterfly Tree with gladioli spaced along the back fence. I always leave room for a \\\\\\\"kitchen garden\\\\\\\" along the fence (I like trying new things. In 2002/3 my garden was a \\\\\\\"healing place\\\\\\\" from breast cancer (stage 3). God sent tiny birds one day when I was especially down and they had such joy in bathing in the water dripping from the hibiscus that I forgot myself.
Garden: Zuiho-in Temple Garden
Showa Period (1926-1989) Dry Landscape Garden. Some of the most interesting wave patterns I've ever seen in a Japanese Garden.
Garden: maggi's basque/english garden
I have a large, south-facing garden, with a large area of grass (lawn would be a misnoma),a hen run, fruit trees and bushes,a small pond,a vegetable plot and 2 large raised beds for veg, a patio with lots of container plants, some cottage garden beds, a loose hedge with old roses, hazel,loquat,japanese quince and witch hazel, and a sun room which doubles as a greenhouse.Also a trellis with honeysuckle, jasmine, clematis and trachelospermum.I have planted as many fragrant plants as possible, as this aspect of the garden is very important to me.
Garden: Japanese Garden
Garden is located in the corner of two streets, surounded by a tall hedge of cedars, but sonny enough and nicely done in terms of architecture. When I got there in July 2009 it was full of weeds and Pampas Gras. Spend a lot of time, digging out the roots. One part should be a Zen-like garden, one part I will grow some vegetables and herbs. There is an old japanese Apricot-tree. Did bloom, now I'm waiting for the leafes.
Garden: Raci's Patio Garden & Pond
In June of 2009, my husband and I moved into a ground floor condominium unit in sunny Pasadena, CA with a spacious patio area with only its cemented floor and a few patches of open ground to work with. Fast forward a year later, our small, cemented empty patio has now metamorphosed into a beautiful container garden with a vegetable and herb box, a dwarf nectarine tree, scores of potted flowering plants, and a whimsical turtle and Japanese Koi pond.
Garden: Whimsical commercial design by Urban Oasis
A sun-baked parking area surprisingly gives way to a Japanese-influenced yet ruggedly American design. Raised steel beds wend their way through trap rock paths while reclaimed cobbles frame a raised flower garden. It's a modernistic vision rendered in a humane, post-industrial vernacular.
Garden: Gabi's Veggie Patch
This year I am growing herbs (thyme, basil, parsley, coriander, curry, lemon grass, oreganos and mint) for my cooking fancy, tomatoes (plum, beefsteak, Marmande and cherry tomato varieties),cucumbers, courgettes, broccoli, eggplants, lettuce, runner beans, honeydew melon and raspberries. I also have a lemon & lime trees, 2 avocados that haven't given any fruit yet, a guayaba and an apricot tree. I am also experimenting with seeds from a japanese square watermelon variety that a friend of mine gave to me.
Garden: Parc Oriental de Maulévrier
In the pagoda garden, the flow of water can be compared to the life cycle.
In this garden a group of rocks represents the mountain from which flows a head symbol of the birth. From the source to the pool, a small vivid stream evokes childhood, the pond evokes the period of doubt and indecision of adolescence, followed by the cascade symbolizing the physical and intellectual changes of this period.
To reflect the problems of adult life, the stream which follows is meandering and the water is running, symbolizing active life. Finally, the central pond in the garden, the lake, represents old age and retirement, a calm and serene period, very important if we take into account the size of the lake compared to other periods.
Garden: Daikokucho Garden
Since our house is built on a platform on the side of Tenjin mountain, our garden has several small flower beds and many potted plants.
Garden: Controlled chaos
A work in progress transforming a prissy all ferns and clivia garden with stones and bark into a bird and animal lovers haven with maximum biodiversity, fragrance and colour
Garden: Shosei-en (Kikokutei) Garden
This was the first of 15 gardens that I visited in Kyoto in August of 2008. Avoid mid summer if you can as it is very hot and humid. I only have a few photos of this garden, but they give an idea of what's there. It wasn't my favourite garden in Kyoto, but it was a perfect (and very central) starting point to visiting several of the best gardens of Kyoto. The bridges and pond are especially beautiful. This walled garden, quite close to the Train Station, might not be as magical, "secret" and quiet as some smaller Zen Gardens, but it's also not as busy and tourist-filled as Ryoanji. Get a free city map at the Tourist information office in the train station - all of the best temples and gardens are identified on it.
Garden: The Garden of Murin-an Villa
Created in 1896, Murin-an is one of the newer gardens I visited in Japan. What it lacks in age it more than makes up for in brilliant design. I've never seen such a small garden look so big, and such an artificially created space look so perfectly natural. Exquisite.
Garden: Nanzen-ji Temple Garden
This Edo period (1603-1867) dry landcape garden is one of my favourites because it combines not only stones and raked gravel, but also trees and moss. After enjoying the details up close, your eyes will go beyond the small walled area to the "borrowed landscape" including views of the temple architecture above and mountains beyond.
An important note: "Public" isn't exactly the right word for this or any of the Zen temple gardens of Japan, even if most of them are technically open to the public for a fee. They are quiet places for prayer and meditation, and the fewer noisy or not-really-interested people who visit them, the better. I'm writing "Temple Garden" in the titles to distinguish these holy sites from public parks or Villa gardens.
Garden: Nanzen-in Landscape and Stroll Garden
Nanzen-in is a short walk away from the Nanzen-ji Temple Garden; geographically very close, but very different in feeling and intent. The first structure on the site was a palace built for Emperor Kameyama in 1264. He changed the palace into a Zen temple in 1291.
The garden was created toward the end of the Kamakura era (1192-1333), and features two ponds, a waterfall, and small bridges and lanes for strolling.
Garden: Ryoan-ji Temple Garden
Here it is: the most famous of all Zen Gardens; the most visited, photographed, studied and poorly copied dry landscape garden in the world. Many try but few succeed to create a garden of this grandeur and simplicity. Many try to analyze and explain it when perhaps a short poem or even silence would describe it best.
I'll let the photos (and the sign) speak for themselves.
A word of warning: Ryoan-ji is a "must see" for many people who don't even know or care about Zen gardens whatsoever, so if you do decide to join them, expect a crowd of camera-wielding tourists to disturb or destroy what many years ago must have been an inimitable Zen experience.
Garden: Ryogen-in Temple Garden
Ryogen-in is a subtemple of the Daitoku temple complex located in northern Kyoto. As with other Zen temple gardens, different sides of the main hall feature different walled or courtyard gardens, which sometimes vary greatly. This may lead to a little confusion at first if you know the gardens only by the frequently published photographs. You may think you're in the wrong place until you turn a corner and find what you've been looking for: a garden you already "know" because you've seen it before in Zen garden books or websites...
Garden: Totekiko at Ryogen-in Temple
Totekiko is the smallest and simplest dry landscape Zen Garden in Kyoto, and one of my all-time favourites. I could sit here and look at it for hours. The circular patterns in the fine gravel have inspired my circular island beds around the fountain in the garden at the Castle of Galeazza.
Garden: Taizo-in Temple Garden
This Showa Period (1926-1989) stroll garden with pond was designed by Nakane Kinsaku. The shubbery, vertical rocks, three-step waterfall and acquatic plants are beautifully blended into one superb landscape. Less balanced and sensitive are the black and white dry landscape gardens near the garden entry, which must have been designed by a different person. The Maneki Neko good luck kitty and ceramic potted plant are charming, but distract. The loveliest little Muromachi Period(1333-1573) dry landscape garden, designed and completed by Kano Motonobu, lies to the west of the Abbot's Quarters, so the overall impression is a mix of ancient harmony and modern dissonance with an unfortunate lack of attention to detail. A careful comparison between the roughness of the black gravel photo compared to the exquisite stone slab bridge and water basin show what I mean.
Garden: Toji-in Temple Stroll Garden with Pond
Edo Period (1603-1868) Stroll Garden with pond. Visited here in the blazing heat of August, but the garden was cooler than the streets outside, and fortune had it that after the crowds of Ryoan-ji, I found myself, for an hour or so, alone in this quiet corner of Kyoto.
Garden: Asean1 garden 4u
Took a bit from living overseas in asia home with me to Seattle. From a 6ft Buddha to large stone pots .
Rita Trites
Spring 2010 is here and I am so looking forward to getting out in my garden once the lawn dries out enough to get out there. We planted over a thousand bulbs in the fall and have experienced a problem with the local deer this spring, eating the tulips and I am sure they have got a few other things that I have not found out about yet. How ever my husband thinks that he may have out smarted them by putting up strong string around the line of the fence, just above it. Seems to be working so far. Lots of daffodils coming up and other spring bulbs, I see the hosta’s,lilies and lilacs all starting to swing in to the motion of spring. I love this time of year for gardening. We have an addition to our family Baxter a 4 lbs chihuahua/terrier mix who loves to explore. May have to build and plant an area with a path for him, maybe a miniature forest of some kind. I also want to work on the pond area and have ideas in mind for that, am open to suggestions if anyones has any. We have a bit of a Japanese theme going on so far, and want to expand with a water fall. Hopeful for that addition this gardening year. Also would like to meet other gardeners to compair notes with. Happy gardening to all. Gardening it is my passion. That should sum it up :)
Elke
I love to garden. Come spring, all the books and seed catalogs come out and the planning begins (again!). My garden always seems to be a work in progress especially this year as our 27 foot pool sprang a leak. New gardens and sod had to be laid. It was a VERY busy spring.
Tara
After many years of growing things in various places I finally have my own garden! It's a total wreck in desperate need of being totally dug up cleared out re-soiled and fertilised but it will be done!
Susan MacCready
I am running out of space on my property...may have to move on to my neighbours! Our climate is great for growing anything that thrives on acidic soil.Hence my Rhododendron collection, Azaleas, various magnolias.. I like to plant for fall colour as well because we have nice long autumns. I lose perennials every spring due to our freeze and thaw cycle in particularly Japanese Anemone's which I absolutely love but seem to have a really hard time over wintering. I've heard they are invasive for some people...I can only wish! This year I was thrilled to see that one anemone had seeded and I had a couple of smaller plants but at least they lived and they did flower.
Susumu Sano
I live near Lake Biwa-ko (The biggest lake in Japan) of Shiga,Japan where left Kyoto by car for 30 minutes. There are a lot of Japanese gardens ( Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines) and botanical garden in and around Kyoto. And here is the area where nature is left. The climate is warm, and we have the four seasons. I enjoy the making of Japanese vegetables in the backyard that is not so large. The compost (organic fertilizer) is made from garbage and dead leaf at home. From this year, I came to perform gardening to see a TV program of the vegetables gardening even during the winter. I enjoy fishing at sea, trip, the breeding of the dog, the tropical fish and the bell cricket other than gardening. I hope to make friends abroad and want to share information about gardening and the culture. Please contact me if you like.
Yuzo Kawachi
Hello, my name is Yuzo Kawachi, I'm Japanese. I live in Sasebo in Nagasaki prefecture in the western part of Japan. I work in "Huis Ten Bosch" which is a theme park which creates the Netherlands by displaying real size copies of old Dutch buildings. "Huis Ten Bosch" means "House in the forest" in English. There are a lot of kinds of flowers and trees in Huis Ten Bosch at the present time and you can see a lot of beautiful gardens here, so if you visit here, surely you will like it!!
Japanese Maple in the snow. This maple is about 40 years old and has since lost the right side of it's symmetrical trunk, plus the main trunk is deeply cracked, which heavy snows have likely exacerbated. These trees apparently only live about 40 years.
Japanese Maple in the snow. This maple is about 40 years old and has since lost the right side of it's symmetrical trunk, plus the main trunk is deeply cracked, which heavy snows have likely exacerbated. (These trees apparently only live about 40 years.) When we moved to this spot, this maple was the only interesting thing in the front yard. There were no garden beds in the entire yard. A very distressing state of affairs . . . and since I wanted a living fence to block the view down the road I have planted a garden along the property line to compliment this tree.
The far end of my herb garden, with tall hollyhocks, Russian sage, and our beautiful threadleaf Japanese maple in the background.
North side in the backyard. A couple of geraniums, the remains of a dead evergreen magnolia that didn't make it through the winter, some salvia, a blue chip juniper, and a japanese maple. The climbing rose is etoile do hollande.
The beautiful symmetry of our elderly Japanese Maple is shown off by the snow here. This photo was taken in 2007. The right half of the tree has now died. Apparently, Japanese Maples only live about 40 years. I planted a Katsura tree behind it this year so it can gradually take over the maple's focal spot.
Big Garden...Eastern Redbud, Butterflies magnolia, Chamaecyparis, Atropurpureum Japanese Maple, Annabell Hydrangea...
Fall colour...Climbing Hydrangea, Japanese Full Moon Maple, 'Jelena' Witchazel, Burning bush
The newly planted Katsura tree with the fading maroon flowers of the Hollyhock, and with the Japanese Maple in the background. The Katsura's mission, should it choose to accept it, is to grow up quickly and symmeterically to take over the spot held by the Maple as it falters.
Japanese Blood Grass with chrysanthemum and the dark foliage of a St. John's Wort shrub that has beautiful leaves and purple-black berries.
Because the Japanese yam sets up a root deeply, it becomes difficult to dig up when plant it without a guide, I cultivate the Japanese yam in a pipe for cultivation.
From Gunter Nitschke's Japanese Gardens:
Nanzen-ji, at the foot of the hills East of Kyoto, is a Zen temple of the Rinzai sect. The south garden in front of the hojo belongs to the Ryoan-ji tradition of Zen Temple Gardens. Like almost all the dry gardens of the Genroku epoch (1688-1703), however, and despite being only slightluy smaller in size (510 sq. yards compared to Ryoan-ji's 645), ...
The village of a Japanese old thatched private house stays in Miyama-cho of the Kyoto suburbs.
Banks of azaleas and rhododendrons on both sides of the reflecting pool bloom in every conceivable shade. Hybrids include the white Boule de Neige (French for snowball), Pink Twins and the vivid red Nova Zembla. The Japanese maple (Acer palmatum 'dissectum') at the head of the pool and the globose sourwood (Oxydendron arboreum 'globosum') are particularly striking in their crimson autumn foliage. Next to the maple is a mature mountain silver bell tree (Halesia monticola).
Goldheart bleeding heart looks lovely against the darker green foliage of it's companions under the light shade of the Japanese Maple that is still hanging in there, despite being a frail specimen at an advanced age.
Japanese maple and Korean azalea in full glory. It's like a vacation to tropical Chicago.
The Japanese bees love fragrances of the Orient orchid very much.
The bees were able to derive to a hive well.
Dark purple iris with golden hop vine growing on the Japanese Maple and Bowl of Beauty peonies.
The village of a Japanese old thatched private house stays in Miyama-cho of the Kyoto suburbs.
