Hydrangea and it’s language
Although Hydrangeas season is almost over, I would like to highlight this flower in a blog. In Japan Hydrangea is closely connected to the rainy season in June because it […]
Category Archives: Technique
Groundcover as substitute for moss
Almost every Japanese garden in Kyoto hosts one part, which is covered in nice fluffy moss. When building a Japanese garden outside of Japan or even in another area in […]
The Nezu Museum in contrast to so-called Japanese gardens in the western world.
On a weekend day in early March I visited the Nezu Museum in Tokyo’s Aoyama area. I am not a great fan of museums. I never was. While I have […]
Behind the image of the karesansui garden
The Kamakura and Muromachi eras hold the answer to my third question of dry landscape gardens – is there more to their compositions than the restraint and unnaturalness that they […]
Reasons for traditional Japanese gardens, in consideration of religious beliefs and recreation over time
The first thing that must be appreciated when referring to the ‘traditional Japanese garden’ is that this spans a great history of many different eras, possibly to the origins of […]
A brief look into the history and concept of a traditional Japanese garden
I would like to leave with the following short series of posts about the history of traditional Japanese gardens. During my time at RJG, I delved into their realms to […]
Gardens above…
Recently I ventured around Tokyo in search of a relatively new style of garden. I wanted to explore the differences that have taken place between the creation of traditional Japanese […]
Planting on a slope in a region with strong rain?
I found this solution when I worked outside last week. Of course this is no professional solution but a nice trick until the plants will have rooted well. Those little […]
Binding technique for garden trees
Today I want to introduce a short explanation how to do a stabilization construction for new planted trees in Japanese gardens. This technique is normally used on multi-stemmed trees we […]
