Landscape Design: Japanese Garden

The fans of such landscapes usually face two problems. The first of them is the difference between Oriental and European mentality. Japanese gardener is ready for years to bring his work to perfection, verified the location of its individual elements is literally up to a centimeter. Such a slow pace usually is not characteristic of the countrymen, who wish to spend some time on the arrangement of the landscape, and then just enjoy the beauty created by them.

Conifers is almost always present in the Japanese garden.

True, it is not necessary to buy planting material – spruce. The traditional conifers of Japanese garden is pine. Most often used its dwarf forms that differs frost, and well tolerated in a haircut. To preserve the geometric, which is inherent in the Japanese garden, and at the same time ensure that it is the most natural look, you can use juniper or thuja. Many of their varieties are capable of maintaining the correct shape without the need for additional shaping.

Another obstacle that prevents the wide adoption of Japanese landscape design to the masses is the difference between the climates and the conditions that are ideal for traditional inhabitants of the Japanese garden. In a lot of countries bamboo is grown, while Japanese cherry probably die on the first cold winter. On the other hand, if desired, it is quite possible to find a replacement to these and other plants for a Japanese garden. Bamboo can not be alive, but decorative, Sakura can be successfully replaced by the decorative apple or pear. Another popular Japanese plants azalea can be replaced by rhododendron. These evergreen shrubs usually spend the winter with no problems in cold environment, and presented in a large variety of species and varieties.