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Hey guys we’re at Highline uh seac botanical gardens we’re about to take a look around show you guys some cool plants uh this place has some cool history to it um yeah they got some awesome plants let’s go check it out hey guys I’m Tim and I’m sea and I’m

Matt and welcome to the Mr Maple show we want to give you a little bit of tour of some places we went during the maple Society I think you’re going to love this one today we’re at the Highland CAC botanical garden and specifically the Japanese garden that’s there this is a

Really really interesting Garden because the story that we were told was and this comes from Don Brooks of cabota Garden who helped with the movement of this Garden this Garden was at a different location and when they were expanding the airport they had to move this Garden but

They didn’t want to get rid of the garden and they wanted to maintain it so they moved this to a new location and every single piece of this Garden every single Rock was documented and numbered and moved to this new location and put back together like a jigsaw puzzle to be

Exactly the way it was before that is crazy I mean could you imagine moving an entire Garden but not only moving an entire Garden but trying to move it and piece it back like it was I mean that takes a lot of skill a lot of work and

It it just continues to instill that Vision that the original creators of this Garden still had for this Garden even though they moved it I love that they kept the Integrity in place of this you know I love Japanese gardening and this really has that that kind of

Essence of Japan feel to it I’ve been to many Gardens in Japan and uh this this definitely gives you those Japanese Vibes like it feels like you got into a Japanese garden it feels like one of the gardens that may be around a temple in

Japan it’s got a lot of uh nicely pruned conifers but also the maples to kind of create that aesthetic you know one of the things in Japanese gardening often the maples are behind the conifers like this so they create that essence of a Skyline or you know a changing beauty of

The Autumn sky or even the spring sky behind the mountain tops which the the conifers really put in place the mountain top so a lot of times it’s kind of like Bonsai you’re recreating that beauty that’s seen in nature in the garden and we’re filming this in October

Of 2023 late October in Washington so the maples were just really starting to really hit that fall color here at the Japanese garden and it was extremely beautiful you guys should definitely check out the maple Society if you’re not already members there’s a lot of

Great people to meet there and a lot of great tours I mean we kind of film these on the Fly while we’re walking around uh with the maple Society but really outstanding Garden the use of water in Japanese Gardens is an element that adds that extra dimension in the garden you can not only visually see the garden but you can hear and appreciate and have that calming effect in the garden these waterfalls just really hit it and draw

Your attention to this Garden to really go in there and appreciate it and Relax really is a four-season garden there’s some aelas there’s some hardscaping The Evergreens the maples and fall color I think anytime you go see this Garden you’re going to find some new aspects of it to enjoy uh a lot of work goes into this too I mean uh don

Was talking about all the different pruning that goes into maintaining these shapes all these topiaries um a lot of work goes into that and it just creates an overall aesthetic that definitely has that Japanese element to It lot of large lace sleeps in this collection too which were really nice some of those really starting to show out there’s not much more relaxing to me than Maples and waterfalls and rock work love it they had used an ornat type that was pretty much used in multiple places

Across this Garden which really tied the garden together and gave the same fall color at the exact same time got to love a goo getting into fall color with the big goo peeking over everything in the back uh just an outstanding you know not a huge Garden I

Mean you can do a lot in a small l landscape like this this wasn’t something that was acres and Acres but it caught your attention it drew you in even in a small space draws you in so much that you see all these families going around and the

Kids getting involved in the garden and posing for pictures and you just watch everyone enjoying themselves in this really peaceful beautiful place one of my favorite things about Japanese Gardens are the walkways over the water I I think it’s so cool sometimes you’ll have the steps that misalign so you have

To walk from each step to each step but there’s always kind of these intricate Bridges and walkways that kind of make their pathway through the garden it’s important to think about you Sean did a whole video on this but creating that movement in the garden with Pathways and

That’s something the Japanese don’t miss on I mean they they create a lot of high drama movement in your garden just by where simply you’re having to walk you you’re driven on a path through this Garden you can’t really get out from the way you’re meant to be on this Garden

But the you know the path that’s taking you on is interesting in every element of it I love looking down at the ground and seeing the leaves especially the goo leaves down there on the ground uh it is so amazing to be able to appreciate the fall color not only in the trees but when they fall to the ground it just adds that fall color and just draws your

Interest all across the Garden There’s the homie John O’Brien to the top five with him Sean jumped in on that a lot of great top fives were filmed at the maple Side Event there’s so many fun people and whenever possible we love to go hop in and talk to people about their favorite plants so you’ll definitely see

Some people you recognize when you’re walking through some of these Gardens with us a lot of great people in the maple Society here we’ve got a big seru Japanese maple on the outside of this uh Japanese garden I mean it’s cool to see all these trees just sort of put together to create this Dynamic that everybody can go enjoy yeah this one you know wouldn’t fall color yet soon that’ll be a blaze

Red and really a nice skyline behind these trees Ser is a great way to use that because it’s going to get big and tall so it’s easy to create a beautiful Skyline you know aesthetic with with a tree that gets that Size this is one of my favorite things to do on Old Lace Le is get underneath and look up at the branch structure and appreciate the beauty where you can see the age of that tree especially when it’s in fall color and you get that orange background I mean it’s just such

A fun way to get in and appreciate those bigger older lace Leaf Japanese maples such a great Garden it really makes you feel like you’re part of the garden not just walking through a garden looking at a garden but you actually are part of it I love the high walls around this

Garden too it definitely makes it feel like a room I like when when Gardens have different rooms to them I just just so much going on here it’s it’s a great experience and I think it just makes it more personal you have to get close to

The plants you have to get close to what you’re looking at I love seeing all those trees that just weep and stick over the water yeah that wind swept element it’s uh takes a lot of work to create a lot of that look I mean you can achieve it with Japanese maples but all those ponds are meticulously pruned and shaped and I

Just love it love the whole aesthetic of it imagine some nice koi in this Garden in the spring just awesome you know every element of this is crafted from the Moss to the plants in between that take up space for the weeds so you don’t have a lot of weeds

And and there’s really a good use of some ornamental plants in this Garden as well you know we talked about several of the cultivars but they’re also implementing aelas to add spring interest they’re implementing Evergreens to keep the structure in the garden even in the winter the maples are providing

That fall interest there’s grasses there’s all kinds of things to keep those elements of texture and color going and when you got this kind of rock work you really you know you really can’t play find a bad place to plant something everything in the garden looks

In place when you have this kind of Hardscape well guys I hope you’ve enjoyed this tour with us today uh we love bringing you along whenever possible on some of our adventures this was just one of the many videos we filmed during the maple society meeting and we hope this you know kind of relaxed your day a little

Bit yeah it’s just fun to be able to go back and see this Garden again and be able to feel this appreciation for it all over again and I hope you are able to understand this Japanese garden and maybe you know you can think about trying to design something like this in

Your own yard take care God bless have a great day