The Most Relaxing Garden Tour! Nitobe Japanese Garden at University of British Columbia

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hey guys I’m Tim and welcome to the Mr Maple show kich you y’all it’s Matt what’s up guys I’m Corbin today we’re going to be taking you on a little tour of the toobe Japanese Gardens now this is part of the University of British Columbia we got to tour these with Douglas justice as part of the maple Society yeah I really like this notay Garden because it used elements of traditional Japanese gardening but also plants from the Pacific North West yeah this was my first time being in a more traditional Japanese garden and I was kind of Blown Away um I love the trees and how everything was set up in a way where it’s kind of gives you room to think now being from the United States here we often think of Canada as being a very cold place but where this is at it actually gets some really nice temperate climates here in Canada in the UBC uh they can grow a lot of plants that are like Zone 7 Zone 8 plants because they are so warm in the specific climate beautiful area it was very relaxing it’s hard to get into these Moss kind of Gardens and and not just have a sense of [Music] relaxation I mean this is more of a Serenity Garden I mean at one point I saw Corbin sitting down at the pond just staring contemplating in the pond and that’s what this Garden’s meant to be it’s meant to be a garden where you think where you’re calm where you’re very quiet and that was one of the things they stressed about this Garden is don’t be loud this is a Serenity Garden take it really softly and enjoy and contemplate yeah I really enjoyed this there’s some older Japanese maples there were a lot of aelas in this Garden um it’s laid out more in a traditional style but uh you know Douglas Justice really reiterated he’s like well what’s the meaning behind this or what’s the meaning behind that he’s like there’s not a meaning behind every Rock the point is the garden relaxes you the point is the garden is part of Nature and you’re enjoying it and so everything doesn’t have this in a western meaning to us every time it’s just enjoy [Music] it [Music] [Music] [Music] there are a lot of great Japanese maples in this Garden mostly Acer palum subspecies palatum so some large leaf greens saw some fall color starting here uh you can see across the pond there’s some different splashes of color peeking out as well there were a lot of different elements here though but like Tim captured on for a second I like they had a lot of Pacific Northwest plants as well there were a lot of Acer cerse andum mixed in kind of blending that little piece of Canada and that little piece of the Pacific Northwest with the Japanese style I mean I love these reflection ponds where you can see the reflection of the trees in fall color when they’re in fall color you see that reflection even more and just being able to go up through there and look up through the trees and see their Silhouettes it’s just one of those things that just calms you and relaxes you and gets you in that peaceful [Music] mindset [Music] definitely reminds me of some Gardens I’ve been to in Kyoto I forgot I was in Canada for a little bit right now [Music] again these Pathways over the water they just add that extra element we can actually Walk Up Walk over and see and look directly into the pond itself and they’re always Often flanked by large Japanese maples I mean right around that pathway you’ll see a Japanese maple it’s almost like a reoccurring thing I see often in uh when they’re doing this traditional style of Japanese gardening [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] one thing I thought was really interesting and I’m not so sure if we captured it on camera but seedlings from the Japanese maples instead of just them being weeds they replanted many of them along the Waterway and they would plant them arched out over the water so that those seedlings would then become larger trees down the road and they were born here in this Garden which is unusual because many Gardens would then just pull those up throw them away and try to replace them with a larger tree instead they took those trees that were from this Garden planted them back in this Garden around the water ‘s Edge and that’s what Matt and I saw in Japan was that’s where often many of the Japanese maples were growing were at the water’s edge jetted out over the [Music] waterways a love a good path in a garden you really it really guides you along it really sets the parameters for the garden it edges things out it gives you the areas where to look and it also you know kind of just gives you a path to take around this Garden too was really nice I also think that the Moss adds so much to a traditional Japanese garden I mean you see this as a prominent feature often and I like it because it gives color but it doesn’t take away from the plants that are planted there it doesn’t give a lot of height and so it just gives this natural Serenity that just grabs your attention and it puts more focus on many of the ja jaes Maples and the pathways that are in the garden a lot of these Acer pomatum up here are 40 50 ft tall there’s some mature specimens in there yeah I left the layout of the garden um there was a lot of elevation changes in some areas and then obviously the bridges were pretty amazing there was a little area where I think they were growing irises that was kind of a wet lands that the water had kind of receded back and um it was just really interesting time to catch this Garden I feel [Music] like now this entire Garden is Walled off so there are walls around every aspect of this Garden making it even feel more private and secluded Ed um you’re not out in the landscape you know it’s very much on the campus so you get outside of here there’s classrooms there’s parking garages there things like that but you get in here and you’re in this element completely to itself this is so cool that this is on a University’s campus I mean I went to the UNCC Chapel Hill and we had a garden but nothing like this we did not have any Japanese traditional Garden like this that would just so peaceful I mean you imagine studying for exams and just like I need a break just go out here and just sit down relax for a little bit that would have been amazing yeah I know I could have used that during uh my time in college as well um this place I think so far what I’ve experienced with Japanese Gardens is they kind of take you to another place uh this kind of just reminded me of whenever I went to the Brooklyn Botanical garden and you go in there and all of the sound of the city kind of Fades away and the only like thing that kind of brings you back is the passing of airplanes over the top of the garden and I think that this Garden also captures that I mean it it really just does take you to a different [Music] place and here you see some of those seedlings that they’ve planted jetting out over the Waterway like I was talking about I mean so cool so many awesome ways you can enjoy this traditional Japanese garden I mean there’s some larger Leaf Japanese maples here there’s so many places just to sit and relax [Music] I remember another thing that uh Douglas told us um they had bring they had brought a bunch of other people in um to kind of look and redesign the garden a little bit and I remember they had brought a non-japanese person in to kind of revamp the garden and uh I think I remember something about him messing up and the Japanese government did not contact UM UBC for like 11 years after that and then they brought a Japanese guy back in he kind of moved some stuff around and fixed it and then immediately after that they kind of started talking to him again so I thought that was an interesting story it’s crazy how one Garden can sort of be like the middle ground for two [Music] countries that water feature was awesome though really really really just big Open Spaces definitely has that Kyoto like feel I just liked it because you could see the Waterway from so many places in the garden you could see that reflection Pond I mean everywhere you went there’s a little pathway but then then you see the reflection Pond there’s a little pathway then you see the reflection pond so it keeps bringing you back to that calm and relaxing feel that that that pond provides [Music] [Music] one thing you’ll notice is behind a lot of the benches there are often shrubs like aelas and things planted really close nearby and that’s because the bench is supposed to be part of the garden not in the garden and it just when you sit down there you get this feeling like you’re you’re part of the garden itself it’s just more calming and [Music] relaxing I like these Pathways that are not straight there’s almost like three little individual Bridges together to make that one [Music] bridge I think that’s something that I enjoy about Japanese Gardens as well is everything is so meticulous and intentional but then it comes out feeling very natural a place where you can contemplate and enjoy the nature around you I even love the entrance way and the exit way this uh it was a really cool little area there was some large trees in fall color but it just had a lot going on and here we’re walking underneath Douglas Furs some giant Douglas Furs which are just everywhere in the Pacific Northwest with cers Adams planted all around as well so cool that they just Blended these two cultures [Music] together [Music] [Music] I really like that little island out there I mean you’ve got your pond you got your reflection Pond but then they put an island out there so you can actually go out and be like a part of the pond too just an extra added feature I thought was really cool I wonder if they have koi in this Garden during the Spring I know a lot of places like this will take them away for the winter storm somewhere else but it felt like it felt like a great Garden for some koi to be in really nice relaxing area and like again it just gets so still and quiet even with a big crowd of people in this this area uh very very much got kind of calm and [Music] relaxed [Music] [Music] for [Music] and I think another cool part about this place was the fact that they kind of held traditional Japanese tea ceremonies there and um we didn’t go inside the tea house but we were kind of looking at it and um Douglas Justice kind of talked about what that’s used for you know whenever they have people from Japan come over uh they’ll host um a traditional tea ceremony as like a welcome a welcoming party and I think that that was so awesome is like you see in the design of the garden the fact that they’re using both Japanese trees and also Pacific Northwest trees and I think Douglas Justice described this Garden as a handshake from Canada to Japan and that this was just a little slice of Japan and Canada yeah it’s a lovely analogy and it’s it’s really nice I I really enjoyed this area um could have went for some tea while I was there that would have been nice yeah I think something that was interesting was um I think that there is kind of a way that you were supposed to walk around I think everybody was walking counterclockwise around it and then after you kind of make your whole way up uh through the garden you kind of round back to the tea house and and like naturally that’s kind of where everybody gathered around was in the little um pagota and te house area and I think that was very [Music] [Music] intentional [Music] [Music] is I like the history behind uh the noobe gardens as well it was named after Dr noobe um who kind of worked on some relations uh between both countries up until World War II started taking place I think before the war started though he had passed away Japan had donated a big Lantern in his honor and a SL slowly a garden started developing around um this Lantern and then once we War II started obviously tensions got a little bit High you know people were vandalizing and that sort of thing um but after the war ended they came back revamped the garden and I mean just made it beautiful and it’s an awesome place that has a really cool story involved with [Music] it [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] it’s crazy how I’m just watching this video video kind of brings me back to the piece of mine that I had while we were at this garden and um I think that speaks to how well and designed the garden was it even translates through video and uh kind of reignites that memory for me uh this was an awesome place to walk [Music] around well I hope you all enjoyed this tour of the noobe Japanese Gardens yeah this Garden is just one of those very unique Gardens you always remember because it is so different than your traditional [Music] Garden yeah I could sit here for hours um I kind of uh got lost just looking at the pond and um you know listening to Douglas talk and I think it was a it was a great time take care God bless and have a great day