Japanese Gardening
Build Your Own Japanese Water Garden
Learn the basics of designing your own tranquil, beautiful Japanese water garden in your backyard.
Kaiyu-shiki or Strolling Gardens require the observer to walk through the garden to fully appreciate it. A premeditated path takes observers through each unique area of a Japanese garden. Uneven surfaces are placed in specific spaces to prompt people to look down at particular points. When the observer looks up, they will see an eye-catching ornamentation--this type of design is known as the Japanese landscape principle of "hide and reveal" -- which is intended to enlighten and revive the spirit of the observer.
A water source in a Japanese garden should appear to be part of the natural surroundings; this is why one will not find fountains in traditional gardens. Man-made streams are built with curves and irregularities to create a serene and natural appearance. Lanterns are often placed beside some of the most prominent water basins (either a pond or a stream) in a garden representing the female and the male elements of water and fire. In Japanese tradition this is known as yin and yang. In some gardens one will find a dry pond or stream. Dry ponds and streams have as much impact as do the ones filled with water.
Got Grubs? Managing Lawn Pests Organically
Grubs ruin your lawn and grow up to be Japanese Beetles - here is an organic way to get rid of them.
Design and Build Your Very Own Koi Pond
These beautiful Japanese fish, which have a brilliance of color and playful behavior that anyone you bring to your home outdoors can enjoy watching, can be the very best part of your garden. Although koi ponds are not the simplest of ponds to maintain, they are certainly a delight and a wonderful hobby for many people who enjoy gardening.
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Ask Marianne: A Japanese maple can have a nice lif...
Garden expert Marianne Binetti answers your garden questions, starting with a query from a gardener about how long she can leave a Japanese maple in a pot.
Japanese legend attests that stones are actual beings with spirits that need to be treated with reverence. Stones are used to construct the garden's paths, bridges, and walkways. Stones also represent mountains where actual mountains are not viewable or present. They are always placed in odd numbers and a majority of the groupings reflect triangular shapes.
By George Weigel/The Patriot-News
Q: I live next to the woods in Mountaindale (Susquehanna Twp.), and various animals have been eating just about every flower I've tried. We've got deer, voles, rabbits, chipmunks and who knows what else. Are there any perennial flowers that I can get away with? It's also shade.
A: I feel for you. The shade is great, and those chipmunks are cute, but it'd also be nice to be able to grow at least a few flowers.
I can't guarantee anything to be 100 percent animal-proof (especially when the deer are really hungry), but here are a few shade perennials that animals usually let alone: barrenwort (Epimedium), bleeding heart (Dicentra), false forget-me-nots (Brunnera), coralbells (Heuchera), foamflowers (Tiarella), foamybells (Heucherella), hardy ginger (Asarum canadense), hardy geraniums (Geranium), Lenten rose (Helleborus), most ferns, Japanese forestgrass (Hakonechloa macra), lamium (Lamium maculatum), lungwort (Pulmonaria), variegated Solomon's seal (Polygonatum odoratum), and sweet woodruff (Galium).
Good luck.
Creating Japanese Gardens
Japanese gardens create landscapes which resembles nature through the careful placement of trees, shrubs, rocks, sand, artificial hills, ponds, and water. Zen and Shinto traditions have greatly...
Japanese Garden Benches
Garden benches are found all over the world and are usually decorative as well as functional. They not just provide a comfortable resting option for walkers but also add to the aesthetic charm of a garden.
Mar 8, Japanese Garden Design
The basics of Japanese garden design by garden author Doug Green
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.
Pest Control - Japanese Beetles
The Japanese beetle is a very destructive insect pest both in its adult and larval stage. It is an alien invader that original arrived in the US about 80 years ago. In its native land of Japan, it is not the threat to plants that it is here because its natural enemies keep it under control. Not so here in the U.S.
10 Secrets Of Japanese Gardens
The principles to be followed when creating a traditional Japanese garden.