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By the end of this video, you’ll know exactly how to create a garden that looks stunning in every single season. These aren’t the obvious mistakes like using the wrong plants or ignoring your climate. These are the subtle errors that even experienced gardeners make—the ones that turn what should be a four-season masterpiece into a garden that peaks once and disappoints the rest of the year…
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4 Comments
Great instruction Josh. I need to work on my favourite view. I'm surprised to see gardens with plants everywhere especially with the ground cover ones. When walking around Japanese gardens there, there was mostly moss and maple trees (we went in Fall) and squatting ladies keeping the ground immaculate. I see so many videos of the courtyard type gardens ( I forget the name for them), but they have minimal plants, with different hardscape features. I find them restful, which is one of the features that I love about them. Did I get it wrong? Is negative space a feature of Japanese gardens?
One thing I do wonder if it would help avoid some of these is to pick accent spots according to sentiment.
For instance, when i was about 10 years old I found a lone Iris (just 2 leaves and a little bit of the chrom) sitting on top of our compost pile somehow mistakenly pulled with weeds. I immediately rescued it and planted it by the front step. It spread into beautiful yellow irises. Oddly we had white snd the neighbors had blue. Nobody knows where the yellow came from. They are what I immediately think of in late spring and early summer. The thought then of placing just a few of my irises in key spots to stand out in summer seems the most natural thing.
We all should have plants we associate with strong memories of the seasons. Maybe it's a massive oak that dropped hundreds of thousands of acorns in the fall or the easter lilies that get gifted wach spring or your favorite Christmas greenery (I'm so jealous holly grows wild near my sister).
This might result in some very non-traditional plants, but by focusing on incorporating what brings you the most peace with each season, surely you'll be more inclined to try and work them into the landscape.
I have been subscribed & watching your videos for a while I started doing up my garden into a Japanese garden and implemented things you have mentioned
I have plants that keep there leafs all year & some like maples that don’t
Still not finished yet
This was a fantastic video Josh. I’m definitely going to get the book. Indeed it takes a skilled designer to have plants blooming from March until November, and then interesting evergreens and forms throughout the winter. It’s a skill to have something look natural/ shizen but not overgrown… I was also looking at my non hardy palms thinking “I’m not ignoring my climate, I bring this indoors for winter” 😅😂