We have an exciting video this week. Our Japanese Garden Escape takes to the road to visit a beautiful Asian garden created and owned by some of our friends. We are also looking for a new Japanese lantern to fill a space near our big pond. The owners of the Asian garden we will visit also run a shop and stock Japanese stone lanterns. Join us as we take you on a tour of their stunning garden with Japanese maples, lotus, black mondo grass and giant bamboo as we hunt for a new stone lantern to add to our collection. Watch til the end to see the full garden tour, the lantern we choose and how we install the lantern around our pond. Relax, enjoy and happy gardening!
Chapters:
00:00 Video content
01:45 Asian shop and garden tour
14:51 Choosing a stone lantern for our garden
18:23 Enjoy the Asian garden with music
19:17 Installing the new stone lantern in our garden
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13 Comments
Very beautiful!
We enjoy every video you have made. Your garden is very beautiful. The visit to the shop and garden left me wanting to buy everything. I’m so glad that there are no shops like that near me. Your have chosen a lovely lantern. I really liked the tall bamboo that the owners of the shop had. Do you have the name of the species as I would like to try to grow it in Wales. It is the largest bamboo I have seen growing outside of Asia. Thank you for posting your videos.
I loved the shop where you got your lantern. There were so many wonderful things inside and out and so wonderfully displayed as well. I would like to know more about the art and the artist who painted the large wonderful paintings. Your videos are so inspiring and educational as well. Thanks for all your hard work, your garden is amazing and the new lantern is perfect in it's new position.
Well done! Thank you!
Really nice garden! Good choice on lantern. Thanks for sharing. New subscriber.
Hello, I love your garden. I am writing to you from Spain.
A question. Why don't you buy Japanese stone lamps made of granite, they seem much more interesting to me and they are like those of Japan and more there where it seems that the moss comes out easily, they would be incredible, the lava ones are very pretty, but they make me too dark.
A greeting from Spain
Love the Lanterns and that shop. Would buy numerous things from them if they were local. Love the videos you keep producing. Maple addict from Australia ( not Austria lol)
Thank you for that. I really love places like that garden. I can spend hours in zen and japanese gardens. We have the most beautiful garden here in Denmark an ours drive from Copenhagen, were i live. A couple spend 32 years building it. It´s build with 6000 tons of granit stones and there is sevel small lakes, waterfalls and plants all over the place. It´s the most amazing zen garden in the country. I really like your new lantern. The lower part represent a wave.
Very beautiful lantern, I also create 10 years ago in my backyard a Zen Japanese garden with a dissectum inabashisare, a small pond with White water lily called Ninphea Alba and koi carp, white jasmine plants and ferns, a granite rokkaku youkimi lantern…all on a grey gravel floor…I Iive in Italy in a town near Venice…But I love the quiet of the Japanese Garden Style…thanks a lot for so many Inspirations🎋🎎🎏🎐😚❤
I studied Japanes gardening in Japan for 20 years, first with the local Niwashi in my area and then eventually ended up working with the team of Gardener of the Katsura Rikyu residence and on the Imperial gardens of Kyoto Goshou.
I remember one day when a gardener moved a pine tree from an area to another (during training) and the gardener scolded him because he started removing it without even thinking about all the risks and implications and without making sure everythong was done to ensure the tree would survive the transplantation. The gardener told the novice, "If this tree dies, your contract will end right there and then". The tree died, and the apprentice quit before being fired. Not only did he quit but the master gardener told him, "Our first job is to make sure every plant is alive and healthy, nothing is more important, we are doctors, and the mission is to make sure all of the patients under our care have long and healthy lives, especially given that our patients will outlive us.
When a tree is planted it is never meant to be moved, unless it was planted only to be grown in order to end up elsewhere, in which case the root system must be given special attention in order to be moved easily" Then he told the apprentice to find another career because clearly his idea of gardening was not what made real gardeners.
You start this video by saying that you moved a tree which was already moved before and it died. And then you jump up to the next topic. You do not even blame yourself for killing the tree although you clearly were 100% responsible. For you making a garden means using plants as you wish and having complete control over them and then discard the ones who die without much consideration and go on in complete self-indulgence and self-righteousness.
Two years ago i went to eat with my head gardener master. He asked me to join him to the invitation to a restaurant he had received from a client who wanted us to work on his garden. My Master (or Sensei) like most traditional gardeners in Japan started by studying Zen and Buddhism which is what most gardens in Japan are based on. He studied for 11 years at the Zen temple Eiheiji and became a certified Master Gardener but also a certified Monk. At dinner the customers invited us to a very famous Kobe guy beef grill. I noticed my master eating the meat and couldn't believe my eyes. My master like all Zen monk from Eiheiji was vegetarian and i had never seen him eat anything of animal origin, except maybe honey. He gave me a sign not to say a word so i didn't.
After dinner i drove him to his house and asked him in the car why he ate the meat although he had never eaten meat in his life before. He said, that this was his fault, he had forgotten to tell the customer that he didn't eat meat. I told him that he could have told him at the restaurant. He said no, for two reasons.
First this would have been rude to the customer and created a negative atmosphere, and second and most importantly if he hadn't eaten the meat, it would have been disposed off in the kitchen and thrown away, and then the animals really would have died only to end up in the trash.
This is what being a japanese gardener is about, it is about your heart, not your knowledge.
You show no respect for the plants in your garden, you use them that's all. If they die, they die, you do not blame yourself and move on as if nothing. That's not how Japanese gardens are made.
But then again, i can hear cows in the background of your video, and i am fairly certain they are destined to either end up in someone's plate or even worse, to be used in the dairy industry. So clearly, life is not your main priority.
If you do not change your heart, you will never create an authentic Japanese garden, Japanese gardens are like the tea ceremony, it is a spiritual and philosophical and theological path, entirely codified and based on very serious rules, of care and utmost respect.
If you follow those rules, the garden will create itself .
In Japanese gardens, every lantern style and shape has a purpose and a very specific position in the garden. Many are not even for gardens but for Temples or Cemeteries and must NEVER be placed in Gardens. An Oribe style lantern is specifically for a Tea Garden and must be paired with a Tsukubai basin, a Yuki Mi Lantern must be placed in the East-West axis of the sun and in a position so it can be seen covered in snow from the Yuki Mi window in the house. And it goes on and on. Lanterns also be buried in the ground not just placed on the ground, unless they have legs, in which case they must be placed on a stone. Your type of Lantern is an imitation of the Rankei Gata style of stone Lanterns 蘭渓型 石灯篭 in Japanese. This style is placed either on a path Tobi Ishi Tatami Ishi etc, or over a Tsukubai or a water area, so this is not bad as you placed it next to a pond, but you must make it face the pond, while at the same time being in an East-West axis. This is because Lanterns placement and the entire Garden Deisgn must follow Fu-Sui or Feng-Shui rules or harmony between elements, cardinal points, stars, sun moon , equinox, solstices.
Japanese Garden are based on Chinese Gardens and both are designed and built based on countless esoteric, religious, philosophical, rules in order to keep the balance between nature and humans, and to not disturb the flow of energy.
Japanese garden do not feel so peaceful and beautiful just by accident. It takes 10 years to create a complete Japanese garden and many gardeners will not even take the job if they consider the area or the house or even the owner to be disruptive to this energy and those rules.
You can't just make a japanese garden, you must study it.
Not grasshoppers. More like katydids or gryllidae.
Horsetail is an invasive weed remember.
Can you use Daylillies in the japanese garden? In research I have found that they are native to japan but I do not know how distant of a relative the common ones that are sold at my local nurseries are. I use Moses Fire and Gentle Shepard for a red and white contrast.