{"id":7869,"date":"2015-12-26T00:44:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T07:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7869"},"modified":"2015-12-26T04:01:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T11:01:08","slug":"japanese-garden-a-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/japanese-garden-a-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Garden a Gardeners Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Site for Japanese garden\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4717453573\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4027\/4717453573_ed192c4067.jpg\" alt=\"043\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite my garden being full to overflowing after the spring rain I have decided to create a new area for a Japanese Garden. When starting a new project I was advised to have a name that may colour the end result. I opted for the grand title of &#8216;Japan Land&#8217;\u00c2\u00a0 This will be a long term project and I won&#8217;t rush it as I have on other projects in the past.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Action Plan for my Japanese Garden<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Read up on the various forms and the nature of Japanese gardens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1903141346\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1903141346.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decide which area is going to be sacrificed to provide space for the Japanese garden.<\/li>\n<li>Draw a rough plan\u00c2\u00a0 on a piece of paper and list the features to be incorporated.<\/li>\n<li>Walk the patch and see if any plants need to be left in situ. I have a couple of Azaleas that I want to keep.<\/li>\n<li>List the gardening problems I have caused in the past that I hope to avoid on this project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Past Problems to Avoid<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I generally leave too little space for paths and access.<\/li>\n<li>Forgetting\u00c2\u00a0 to label or record the location of a particular plant\u00c2\u00a0 has meant I do not give any individual treatment until it is too late.<\/li>\n<li>Many Japanese favourites are long lived such as Acer, Wisteria and Peonies so I must leave enough space for them to grow and develop.<!--more--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Japanese Features<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moss and greenery &#8211; I am collecting mossy rocks and treating others with moss food (old Yohgurt &amp; soil)<\/li>\n<li>Asymmetrical shapes and layout will be a contrast to the straight lines of my formal borders.<\/li>\n<li>Preferring plants to structures in this garden I need to change and incorporate some formal structures short of a tea-house. Think about motion, water and space.<\/li>\n<li>The foreground, middle-ground and background need too be viewed several times from all vantage points before I move on to a detailed drawn plant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well it should be back to the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/search?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=japanese   gardens&amp;tag=richardpettin-21&amp;index=blended&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738\"> Books<\/a> for a while, a good pastime for Autumn when the workload reduces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phase Two Action Plan<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bring the various plans together in a more detailed manner.<\/li>\n<li>Test the conditions of the site, ph, rain shadow, shade and nutrient levels.<\/li>\n<li>Clear the site except for the odd plant that is being saved. Relocate or give away surplus plants.<\/li>\n<li>Order the key trees and plants or visit specialist nurseries to acquire.<\/li>\n<li>Install the main structural features and any plants that need to be established before winter.<\/li>\n<li>Tell the family what I want for Christmas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Japanese Garden site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4718089368\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4065\/4718089368_b74dc39d45.jpg\" alt=\"039\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nView from the other side of the proposed site. Minimum size 15&#8242; by 10&#8242; to be reconsidered.<\/p>\n<p>Read also my <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/japanese-garden-a-project\/\">Japanese garden project<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/environmental-gardening\/japanese-garden-at-giggle-alley-eskdale\/\">Giggle Alley<\/a> or more <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/japanese-gardens-key-features\/\">features<\/a><br \/>\nOn a more war like footing the features in a Samurai garden include those <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13916\">listed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite my garden being full to overflowing after the spring rain I have decided to create a new area for a Japanese Garden. When starting a new project I was advised to have a name that may colour the end result. I opted for the grand title of &#8216;Japan Land&#8217;\u00c2\u00a0 This will be a long term project and I won&#8217;t rush it as I have on other projects in the past. Action Plan for my Japanese Garden Read up on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/japanese-garden-a-project\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869","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=7869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}