{"id":13916,"date":"2015-12-27T01:29:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T08:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13916"},"modified":"2015-12-26T04:02:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T11:02:55","slug":"samurai-garden-fighting-for-a-japanese-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/design\/samurai-garden-fighting-for-a-japanese-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Samurai Garden &#8211; Fighting for a Japanese Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My &#8216;Samurai garden&#8217; is a small homage to a full blown Japanese garden.<br \/>\nI was attracted to Japanese gardens when I attended a talk at our local garden society. (They are often good events to pick up tips or special plants. I belong to a couple but only attend if there is something of interest.)<br \/>\nAfter starting on my project I was surprised how many Japanese gardens there were to visit or spot when walking around.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Menston Samurai garden, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7745192830\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8423\/7745192830_ed2096ed75.jpg\" alt=\"Menston\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Samurai Garden Features<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sword shaped leaves feature in my garden to provide a green back drop and a military feel. Various Iris and Hemorocallis are getting established. It is surprising how well they do after a couple of seasons to expand the clumps.<\/li>\n<li>I have bought a stone Japanese shrine and an interestingly shaped pyramidal stone. There are all sorts of &#8216;features&#8217; to chose from at most large garden centres.<\/li>\n<li>I have cheated and planted bonsai trees in their pots. I hope to partially restrict the growth without having to do bonsai pruning of roots or branches.<\/li>\n<li>Acers and Tree peonies are two of my favourite species and they are long term investments.<\/li>\n<li>The largest expense was a white chipping\/pebble path edged with two kerbs. Despite a weed proof membrane the chippings get dirty, mossy and allow some weeds to root above the membrane.<\/li>\n<li>For one year only I &#8216;planted&#8217; a large framed mirror to reflect images from the garden. I am happy with the result and may clean the mirror and use it next year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Samurai Crocosmia, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7745208148\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8437\/7745208148_6f096ee145.jpg\" alt=\"Menston\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Garden Samurai Code of Honor<\/h3>\n<p>Whilst researching my Samurai garden feature I came across a cancer charity <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardensamurai.com\/index.html\">website <\/a> with the following code of Samurai honor.<\/p>\n<p>1. The most important Garden is finding peace in your heart, soul and mind.<br \/>\n2. Honor and respect the tool that can injure you, especially the tool of your thoughts.<br \/>\n3. Have courage to fight the weeds of life.<br \/>\n4. Bless your garden and curse it not.<br \/>\n5. Perfection cannot be reached but precision can be practiced.<br \/>\n6. Know your enemies, bees can be one of the good guys.<br \/>\n7. Love your garden for hate can lead to destruction.<br \/>\n8. Remember you can plant seeds of joy; but only God can make them grow.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese have regarded places surrounded by natural rocks as dwelling places of the gods. So too with dense clusters of trees and water that have traditionally encircled sacred ground.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Samurai at Banzai Tattoos new location (2 doors down) by NASA CREW, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nasa-crew\/7009316043\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7140\/7009316043_21bb6d4269.jpg\" alt=\"Samurai at Banzai Tattoos new location (2 doors down)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>The Samurai gardener fighting the devil slug?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>by Samurai at Banzai Tattoos new location (2 doors down) by NASA CREW,CC BY-ND 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Japanese Garden at Giggle Alley <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/environmental-gardening\/japanese-garden-at-giggle-alley-eskdale\/\"> at Eskdale<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What features would you put in your Samurai garden? This list of hints highlights the successes and mistakes I have made fighting nature to produce a Japanese garden with a Samurai theme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}