Japanese Gardening
Japanese Water Gardens - Tips For Building a Japan...
When you think of a Koi pond, what comes to mind? For many, it is a serene Japanese water garden full of large Koi fish swimming lazily through the water. If this is your idea of the perfect pond, keep reading. Below you will find tips and tricks to building a Japanese water garden, and making the Koi pond of your dreams.
Falling in Love with the Japanese Garden
The love story of the Japanese Garden is told by the elements which create its romance. These gardens represent a romantic philosophy that is unique and whole. It captures the soul by staying true to nature leaving out artificial elements.
Gardening as an art
Gardening is considered to be an absolutely essential art in most cultures. In Japan, for instance, Samurai and Zen monks were often required to build decorative gardens or practice related skills like flower arrangement (Ikebana).
In modern Europe and North America, people often express their political or social views in gardens, intentionally or not. The Green parties and Greenpeace often advise their campaigners to call first on homeowners who have lush chaotic wild gardens, as these are deemed to be more likely than those with Astro-turf or bluegrass lawns to respond to the Greens' political message. No reliable statistics support such claims, but for many years, in the United States, there was a widespread belief that there was such a thing as a Republican lawn and Democratic lawn.
The lawn vs. garden issue is played out in urban planning as the debate over the "land ethic" that is to determine urban land use and whether hyperhygienist, e.g. weed control, bylaws should apply, or whether land should generally be allowed to exist in its natural wild state. In a famous Canadian Charter of Rights case, "Sandra Bell vs. City of Toronto", 1997, the right to cultivate all native species, even most varieties deemed noxious or allergenic, was upheld as part of the right of free expression, at least in Canada.
Gardening is thus not only an essential food source and art, but also - a right. The Slow Food movement has sought in some countries to add an edible schoolyard and garden classrooms to schools, e.g. in Fergus, Ontario, where these were added to a public school to augment the kitchen classroom.
In U.S. usage the care, installation, and maintenance of ornamental plantings in and around commercial and institutional buildings is called landscaping, landscape maintenance or groundskeeping, while international usage uses the term gardening for these same activities.
Koi Ponds - Choosing a Great Design for Your Koi F...
When you think of your perfect Koi pond, what do you see? Do you envision yourself in the middle of a serene Japanese garden, a small intimate country garden, or perhaps something else? Once you have a general idea of what you want in your Koi pond and surrounding area, you can see to it that the dream becomes a reality.
The True Spirit of Japanese Gardens
The first thing that greets you as you step into a Japanese garden is the calmness and serenity of the place. The Japanese gardens reflect men's efforts at harmonizing the beauty and force of the nature in an effortless fashion. With the essential presence of water body, thin streams, short bridges or artificial hillocks created with gravels and rocks; in the final shape the Japanese gardens become resonant with the mellow notes of spirituality and tranquility.
Typical Japanese gardens contain several of these elements, real or symbolic:
* Water
* An island
* A bridge to the island
* A lantern, typically of stone
* A teahouse or pavilion
Japanese gardens might fall into one of these styles:
* Pond gardens, for viewing from a boat.
* Sitting gardens, for viewing from inside a building or on a veranda.
* Tea gardens, for viewing from a path which leads to a tea ceremony hut.
* Strolling gardens, for viewing from a path which circumnavigates the garden.
Garden Arch II
Buy posters at AllPosters.com
All About The Shakan Style Of Bonsai
Japanese bonsai sculptors have gotten into developing a lot of involved as well as meticulous types of bonsai wherein every component is situated exactly right. This is obvious within the shakan style of bonsai, or slanting, technique.
Mar 8, Japanese Garden Design
The basics of Japanese garden design by garden author Doug Green
Bonsai Trees
Bonsai is a Japanese technique of growing miniature trees in containers. These plants are primarily used for aesthetic purposes. Many people take up bonsai cultivation as an interesting hobby. Bonsai trees have always been popular as they make great showpieces and rare gift items. Bonsai trees are very small and the height can vary anywhere between 2 inches to 3 feet.
The Wondrous Beauty Of The Seasonal Flowers Of Jap...
Perhaps the most famous seasonal flowers in Japan are the Japanese cherry blossoms which bloom every year in late spring, beautiful pink and white blooms whose scent fills the streets, wafting their way into windows and cracks in doors. As the flowers bloom and fall they carpet the area beneath the trees, with several trees in a row it can look like a carpet of pink leading off into the beautiful hills of Japan.
Bonsai
Wooden Garden Bridges - A Beautiful Touch For Your...
Wooden bridges are a beautiful touch for any garden pond, Japanese-style dry river bed, and many, many more landscaping designs. A wooden bridge will work with virtually any outdoor decor, design, or motif, from the smallest possible waters or ponds to the most elaborate waterfalls and more. When you find a place for the perfect garden, waterfall, a reflecting pool - or if you already have one of these - consider a bridge for your garden decor.
Corean Garden in a botanicel Garden in Corea on the Jeju island.
(source:Wikimedia Commons)
