Garden Lighting to Transform Your Garden

August 1, 2009

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Garden lighting is not just for Christmas! Lighting a garden at night adds a complete new dimension to garden landscaping. You emphasise the most beautiful features of your garden. At night gardens are more fragrant than during the day. When [...]

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Symbolism in Japanese Gardens

July 31, 2009

Gardens trigger peoples’ senses, whether good or bad. Beautiful gardens strike psychological and emotional responses within us. Some Orientals believe that by going to nature, they link their unconscious selves, unknowingly, to their evolutionary past. Thus their gardens are used as a form of worship. Sometimes the Japanese garden design takes its symbols from the [...]

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Fort Worth attraction to restock exotic Koi fish July 29, 2009

July 30, 2009

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – A Fort Worth attraction that lost exotic fish in a chlorination accident earlier this year is getting 60 new fish to replenish its stock. The new Koi (koy) fish will be added to the three-pond Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden today. About 100 of the fish died [...]

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Secrets of Japanese Gardens

July 30, 2009

Japanese gardens serve a purpose. Proper Japanese designs have culture, religion and tradition blended into them. Most Oriental gardens are created for meditation purposes. Download your free Japanese Garden Plan below. Overview of Oriental Gardens These gardens become an idealization of nature. In the Asian garden you can discover something of the heart of nature. [...]

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Water in Your Japanese Garden

June 26, 2009

Perhaps one of the most expected features in any Japanese garden is the pond. Do you want water in your Japanese garden? Yes, of course you do! If there is any way that you have the space and resources , a pond is just about the best thing you can incorporate into your garden. It [...]

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Zen Gardens – The Japanese Art of Gardening

June 25, 2009

The origin of Zen gardens landscaping has its base in Japan. Basically the warriors of Japanese samurai, who were the followers of Zen Buddhism, perfected the art of Zen gardens landscaping. They believed that by leading a simple and humble life they will achieve their way to enlightenment. The gardening skills of Zen priests were [...]

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How To Make Great Garden Design

June 23, 2009

There is no better time than now to get to work and start coming up with a garden design. Whether it is your front yard, back yard or both that you want to work on, and whether you know that you want something like a Japanese garden design or you are just not sure, there [...]

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The Background For Natural Rock Gardens

June 23, 2009

For this purpose, with the restriction of height largely removed, a much wider list may be selected from, and therefore there is no need to present one in detail here. Those mentioned are more in the nature of examples suggesting what may be used than any attempt at a complete list. Evergreens: Arrowhead Norway Spruce [...]

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Landscaping Tips for Great Gardens

June 22, 2009

By this time of the year, you probably have planted some new perennials for color in your garden. But if you look around and still feel something is missing the answer may be that your landscape needs more than color. As a landscape designer I am often called upon for ideas to create richer landscapes [...]

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Choose the Design in a Japanese Garden with Japanese Decorating

June 21, 2009

Each Japanese garden is different from the next due to the fact that everybody incorporates a Japanese garden in a different way. It should be unique to you and your personality and it should be a place where you can relax and enjoy the scenery. So, just what kind of things can you place in [...]

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