Japanese gardencan be created as a large park complex, but it can also be a small home garden. Recently, home garden owners are choosing to furnish them in the Japanese style. Very often, however, we do not realize that for the Japanese, when creating the style of Japanese gardens, the Chinese garden was the model, from which they took over many elements, adapting them to their own needs.
Japanese garden in Frank-Raj mini-gardens
What determines the growing interest inJapanese gardens ? Well, on a small area of the backyard garden, we can create an original mini-landscape with characteristic Bonsai trees.If you also want to have aJapanese-style garden , the real challenge may be to create it using materials and plants available in Poland and well tolerating our climatic conditions. However, it is worth the effort to get this unique effect, which arouses admiration among many passers-by.
Japanese garden - characteristic stone lanterns
Traditional Japanese gardenis most often found near private homes, parks, Buddhist and Shinto temples and monuments (e.g. castles). The Japanese garden is to imitate nature without trying to conquer or destroy it. It should be cared for in such a way as to hide human activities as carefully as possible. The ideal for Japanese gardeners is rest in the wild. One of the texts ondecorating Japanese gardens(11th century) says: learn from nature, but do not copy it.
There are severaltypes of Japanesegardens, but all of them are characterized by harmony, simplicity, asymmetry and elegance.The two main styles of gardens are TSUKIYAMA with small mounds, stones symbolizing mountains, ponds imitating seas and lakes, and KARESANSUI - a dry garden style with gravel representing water, boulders representing islands and raking sand imitating waves hitting them.
Japanese garden - water is an important element
Necessary elements in a classic Japanese garden are:
- water that brings life, movement to the garden. Sometimes it is replaced with an irregular patch of light gravel),
- a stone that symbolizes the immutability and durability of nature. The boulders used to decorate the garden should have a natural form, the same color and texture,
- vegetation dominated by greenery. The flowers are only used as a single accent. The most commonly used plants are: Japanese azaleas, palm maple, magnolias, cherries and peonies,
- stone lanterns,
- garden paths made of single flat stones.
