Things to keep in mind for a beautiful garden
Key principles on garden design
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Bring Japanese spirit to your garden with these original steps. First, embrace nature's ideal. This means keeping things as natural as possible in your garden, including things that can disrupt this natural appearance.
For example, do not include square ponds in your design because square ponds are found in nature. Also, a waterfall would be closer to something that exists near nature if we compare it to a fountain. So you also have to consider the Japanese concept of samari or balance. Because a main objective of Japanese gardening design is to recreate the large landscape even in small space. Be careful when choosing the elements for your garden, as you do not want to fill your ten courtyards with huge rocks.
As a miniature landscape, the rocks in the garden represent mountains and the ponds represent lakes. A place filled with sand would represent an ocean. By this we believe that garden owners wanted to get a minimalist approach, which is indicated by the phrase "less is more".
Elements of time and space
One of the western things is the first time there are many parts of the empty space in the garden. In fact, this place is an important feature in Japanese gardening. This place, called Ma, is related to the elements around it and also surrounds it. The concepts of me and yo are important here, they are best known to Western civilization by Chinese civilization yin and yang. If you want to do something then you have to start with nothing. This is an idea that is very difficult to understand, but it is a rule of thumb in Japanese gardening.
Wabi and sabi are the important . There is no literal English translation for those words. The wobby is about specificity, or the essence of something; A close literal translation is solitude. All is related to the definition of time or the ideal image of something; The closest definition can be a time-reinforcing character. Looking at the case, a cement lantern that can look unique will lack that ideal image. Or an old rock, which is just a round boulder, there will be no veneer covered in litchi. Therefore it is necessary to find that balance.
Ma and wabi / sabi are associated with the concepts of space and time. When it comes to the weather, the garden should show the special character of each. Japanese garden lovers dedicate time to their gardens in every season, unlike the Western season, which simply comes to see it again in the spring.
A very relaxing scene in the spring is given by the bright green color of the new buds and the flowers of the azinals. In summer, succulent leaves along the pond present a powerful and fresh image. The vivid spectacle of the brilliant colors of the leaves dying in the fall is a prelude to the arrival of winter and the snow-white shroud.
The two most important horticultural seasons in Japan are spring and winter. The Japanese refer to the accumulated snow on the break as sekku or snow flower. Yukimi, or snow-watching lanterns, are another distinctive element of Japanese gardens in winter. The sleep of the garden in winter is an important link for our Japanese gardener, while the western gardener is the beginning of garden work for spring. Probably due to the eastern point of death as part of the cycle of life, or perhaps the western fear of death.
About garden enclosures
Let us look at the garden as the microcosm of nature. If we are looking for a perfect retreat for the garden, we must separate it from the outside world. Because of that, fences and gates are important components of Japanese gardens.
Fences and gates have both symbolism and functionality. The worries and worries of our daily lives have to be left out of this isolated world that becomes a garden. The fence protects us from the outside world and the gate is the threshold where we let go of our daily worries and then prepare ourselves to face real life again.
The use of the fence is based in the concept of hide / reveal or Migkure. The styles of the fence are very simple and put in combination with screen planting, thus not giving many clues as to what hides inside. You can cut a small window of your garden to give a sample look of your garden that encircles your garden if so. Sode-gaki, or sleeve fences, are fences attached to an architectural structure, which will only show a typical view of the garden from inside the house. Thus, we are invited to come to the garden and enjoy it in its entirety. This makes true sense of the garden, our time and sense of self are lost in it.
Basic arrangement
Despite the fact that every person's garden applies certain rules, do not think that there is only one type of garden. Following are three styles which you can use.
Hill and pond gardens (
A China imported classic style. A pond or a place filled with ripe gravel faces a hill (or hills). This style always represents mountainous locations and usually uses vegetation for mountains. Walking gardens usually use this style.
Flat Garden (Hiraniwa)
It derives from the use of open, flat spaces in front of palaces for temples and ceremonies. It is an appropriate style for contemplation and represents a seaside area (with the use of the right plants). This is a style often used in courtyards.
Tea Garden (Rosiniva)
In this type of garden, function has more importance than form. The Rosie or Dew Passage is the main point of the garden with ponds and gates. This would be an exception to the rule. Simple and sparse plants give the garden a rustic feel.
Have to consider formality
Hill and pond and flat styles can be calf (formal), gyo (intermediate) or either (informal). Formal styles were commonly found in temples or palaces, intermediate styles suitable for most residences, and informal styles were used in peasant huts and mountain hills. The tea garden is one that always fits in the informal style.
Garden components
Rock (Ishi in Japanese) is the main concern of Japanese gardens. If the stones are correctly placed, the garden shows an ideal balance. Hence the rules of the original stone types and their positions are shown here.
The basic stones are long upright stone, low upright stone, curved stone, vacelin stone and horizontal stone. These should usually be set in the triad, although this is not always the case. Two nearly identical stones (through example, two tall verticals or two lying stones), one a little considerably smaller than the other, are simultaneously male and female, but established as threes, the use of them in fives can be, and seven more frequent.
We need to keep away from the Three Bad Stones. These are diseased stones (withered or mizen tops), dead stones (a distinctly vertical one, which is used as a horizontal, or vice versa, placement of a dead body), and popper stone (a stone that has a Is not concerned) to many others in the garden). Use only one stone of each of the basic types in any cluster (the rest are small, minor stones also known as throwaway stones). Stones can be placed as sculptures, set in a two-dimensional way against a backdrop, or given a purpose, such as a stepping stone or a bridge.
When used as stepping stones, they should be between one and three inches above the soil, yet solid underfoot, such as roots in the ground. They can be placed in straight lines, offset to the left leg, right leg (referred to as shiori or plover, after the shore bird leaves), or in twigs, threesomes, squares, or sets of leaves. (And any kind).
The path stands for the path through life, and may even be interpreted by the path, especially stones. A very large stone placed on the way asks us to place two legs here, so that the view can be enjoyed. There are many stones for specific places. While following the basic design principles, we can notice the exact character of the Japanese garden.
Water (Mizu in Japanese) plays an important role in the structure of Japanese gardens due to Japan's abundant rainfall. Water may also be represented with a paved gravel area instead of water. An escape stream can be represented by placing flat river stones together. In tea plantations, where there is no stream or pond, the Chujubachi, or water basin, plays the most important role in the ritual of clearing water. The shingling of bamboo on the rock helps mark the passage of time, as the shishi-odoki, or deer scare the water and fill the water.
The flow of water, the way it sounds and looks, takes into account the continuous passage of time. A bridge crossing the water stream is often used as a landscaping supplement. Bridges represent a journey, as do avenues. Hashi, in Japanese, can be a bridge or an edge. Bridges are symbolic passes from one world into another, a constant theme in Japanese art.
Plants or shokobatsu may play a secondary role for stones in the garden, but they are a primary concern in design. The stones represent what remains unchanged, so trees, shrubs and perennials have to represent the passage of seasons. Earlier garden styles used plants to make poetic meaning or to fix geologic issues, but today have little meaning.
As the Hien style subsided under Zen influence, perennials and grasses fell out of use. Therefore, for a long time, there were only a few plants that tradition allowed for the garden. But, in modern-day Japan, designers are widening the spectrum of materials used again. It is highly recommended that native plants are chosen for the garden, as showy exotic plants are not in good taste. Keep in mind that the native plants I use may be N Garden, because it is in poor taste for using showy exotic plants. Although pines, cherries and bamboo remind us immediately of Japanese gardens, we encourage you to use native plants of your area that you may find pleasing. If we choose evergreen as the main plant theme and mix it with deciduous material that can provide seasonal blooms or foliage colors then we can recreate the look of the Japanese garden.
Now the next thing to consider in a Japanese garden is ornaments or tenkebutsu. The western lantern is, for Westerners, a distinct impression of Japanese gardens. Lanterns are not important components of red Japanese gardens. The reason is that ornaments are subject to the design of the garden. Lanterns, stupas, and basins complement architecture only when a point of visual interest is required for design.
A well-kept lantern can be a good way to finish your garden design. There are three main styles (though with many variations): the Kasuga style lantern, a very formal one with a stone base. In the Oribe style lantern, the pedestal is below ground, unlike the Kasuga style. Consider the formality of setting up your garden to choose the appropriate lantern.
When possible, elements outside the garden can be included. For example, you can work on a distant mountain with scenery in your design, framing it with stones and plants present in the garden.
The lending scenery (shakti in Japanese) can be: far (as in the far mountain); Near (a tree just outside the fence); High (an element seen above the fence) or low (such as a component seen under the fence or through a window in the fence).
As much as it is considered contrary to the spirit of our enclosure, it reminds us how all things are interconnected.
Realize your garden
The Japanese garden is a micro space filled with contradictions and imperatives. Where strongly established rules break with other rules. If you meet the Buddha on the street, you should kill them. There is a Zen paradox that recommends not sticking to the rules so tightly, and the same goes for Japanese gardens.
When building a Japanese garden, do not even engage with traditions that have little meaning to you. There will be no task to recreate the garden of Buddhist saints. This also applies to trying to recall the meaning of stone appointments, as this method is no longer used in Japan, or even in the United States, due to the lack of meaning for us in the modern world.
So we have chosen some gardening tips that have relevance and integrate them into a garden. These three views on horticulture will give direction to get the right results.
First
all the setting for the garden should be around the garden, not the other way around.
Second
The stones should be placed first, next to trees and then bushes.
The third
Be used for concepts of shin, gyo, and. It helps a lot to start work on the garden.
Keep in mind that real Japanese gardens are traditional in Japan. What we can do in India to shape a garden in the Japanese style. Rikyu once said of the perfect Roji: "Thick green moss, all pure and sunny hot". In other words, technique is not as important as you feel in your garden. Said another way, emotion is more important than technique.
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