Thank you for that. I really love places like that garden. I can spend hours in zen and japanese gardens. We have the most beautiful garden here in Denmark an ours drive from Copenhagen, were i live. A couple spend 32 years building it. It´s build with 6000 tons of granit stones and there is sevel small lakes, waterfalls and plants all over the place. It´s the most amazing zen garden in the country. I really like your new lantern. The lower part represent a wave.
Thank you so much, very much appreciated! Thank you for mentioning the garden near Copenhagen, it sounds wonderful and I will put it on my places to go list :)
Very beautiful lantern, I also create 10 years ago in my backyard a Zen Japanese garden with a dissectum inabashisare, a small pond with White water lily called Ninphea Alba and koi carp, white jasmine plants and ferns, a granite rokkaku youkimi lantern...all on a grey gravel floor...I Iive in Italy in a town near Venice...But I love the quiet of the Japanese Garden Style...thanks a lot for so many Inspirations🎋🎎🎏🎐😚❤
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that. Venice, how beautiful. What you have done with your garden sounds fantastic! And I agree, the Japanese garden style brings so much balance and quiet. It feels very peaceful to walk through and just to look at it :)
@@OurJapaneseGardenEscape Thank to you for answering me with such kindness😊we need so much tranquility and Inner space that the Japanese garden is a great gift for the heart😊❤I'm also a Master Reiki Usui and I try to always carry the beauty inside of me and,if I can, in the life of others🌸🌸🌸Thank you for being so inspiring😊 Venice is waiting for you😚A lot of kisses 😚💕
I loved the shop where you got your lantern. There were so many wonderful things inside and out and so wonderfully displayed as well. I would like to know more about the art and the artist who painted the large wonderful paintings. Your videos are so inspiring and educational as well. Thanks for all your hard work, your garden is amazing and the new lantern is perfect in it's new position.
Thank you so much for the fantastic feedback, very much appreciated :) As for the paintings, I spoke to the shop owner and unfortunately the artist is unknown. The paintings come from a gallery in Bali, Indonesia. Please let me know if you have any specific questions about the art itself. I will try to find out as much as possible. You can also drop me an email at ourjapanesegardenescape@gmail.com. Thanks again!
Love the Lanterns and that shop. Would buy numerous things from them if they were local. Love the videos you keep producing. Maple addict from Australia ( not Austria lol)
Thank you so much, we really appreciate it. We end up buying something every time we go to that shop ;) Oh wow, Australia - my cousin lives in Australia at the Gold Coast. Australia - not Austria: so funny you mention that. It happens all the time when we travel. "Where are you from? Austria. Australia! Austria" lol
@@OurJapaneseGardenEscape Are you from Sweden originally or just good at Google translate? I have spent the last few years creating a japaneese garden in western sweden. Its still in an early development phase, but I am devoted to make it as authentic as possible going forward. Your channel will make good inspiration for me. Pop over to my channel, there might be some inspiration for you as well.
@@greenmachinesweden I used to live in Stockholm for two years, so I understand a bit of Swedish :) That sounds great, good luck going forward with your project and let me know how it goes!
We enjoy every video you have made. Your garden is very beautiful. The visit to the shop and garden left me wanting to buy everything. I’m so glad that there are no shops like that near me. Your have chosen a lovely lantern. I really liked the tall bamboo that the owners of the shop had. Do you have the name of the species as I would like to try to grow it in Wales. It is the largest bamboo I have seen growing outside of Asia. Thank you for posting your videos.
Thank you so much for this wonderful comment. This is very much appreciated! Yes, there are so many beautiful things in that shop and we always end up buying something ;) Wales, very nice, Adam's brother lives in Wales. As for the bamboo, they grow actually two types of bamboo, which are very similar and called Phyllostachys iridescens and nigra Henonis. The canes/culms are green and the diameter is about 6cm. The average heights are between 8 and 12 meters, but can reach up to 15 meters. Both bamboo types are running bamboo types and can be quite invasive, so I would strongly recommend to use a root block going 80-100cm into the ground. How much the bamboo spreads depends on the climate, soil type and other local growing conditions. Since the climate in the UK is a lot milder, I would think it spreads more than it does here. You should not have an issue finding these bamboo types in the UK, I have seen several sellers. Hope that helps and thank you so much again. Let me know how it goes with the bamboo :)
Can you use Daylillies in the japanese garden? In research I have found that they are native to japan but I do not know how distant of a relative the common ones that are sold at my local nurseries are. I use Moses Fire and Gentle Shepard for a red and white contrast.
There is a wide range of plants that is native to Japan and surrounding countries. I find that at the end of the day it is completely up to you what plants you want to use in your garden as this will depend on what you want to achieve with your design. Of all the gardens I have seen in Japan, most of them are traditional and do not have a wide variety of plants. I remember to have seen the occasional day lily though (there is one at the end of my Nikko video). It was the orange variety / tiger day lily. We actually grow some of them in the garden too :)
I studied Japanes gardening in Japan for 20 years, first with the local Niwashi in my area and then eventually ended up working with the team of Gardener of the Katsura Rikyu residence and on the Imperial gardens of Kyoto Goshou. I remember one day when a gardener moved a pine tree from an area to another (during training) and the gardener scolded him because he started removing it without even thinking about all the risks and implications and without making sure everythong was done to ensure the tree would survive the transplantation. The gardener told the novice, "If this tree dies, your contract will end right there and then". The tree died, and the apprentice quit before being fired. Not only did he quit but the master gardener told him, "Our first job is to make sure every plant is alive and healthy, nothing is more important, we are doctors, and the mission is to make sure all of the patients under our care have long and healthy lives, especially given that our patients will outlive us. When a tree is planted it is never meant to be moved, unless it was planted only to be grown in order to end up elsewhere, in which case the root system must be given special attention in order to be moved easily" Then he told the apprentice to find another career because clearly his idea of gardening was not what made real gardeners. You start this video by saying that you moved a tree which was already moved before and it died. And then you jump up to the next topic. You do not even blame yourself for killing the tree although you clearly were 100% responsible. For you making a garden means using plants as you wish and having complete control over them and then discard the ones who die without much consideration and go on in complete self-indulgence and self-righteousness. Two years ago i went to eat with my head gardener master. He asked me to join him to the invitation to a restaurant he had received from a client who wanted us to work on his garden. My Master (or Sensei) like most traditional gardeners in Japan started by studying Zen and Buddhism which is what most gardens in Japan are based on. He studied for 11 years at the Zen temple Eiheiji and became a certified Master Gardener but also a certified Monk. At dinner the customers invited us to a very famous Kobe guy beef grill. I noticed my master eating the meat and couldn't believe my eyes. My master like all Zen monk from Eiheiji was vegetarian and i had never seen him eat anything of animal origin, except maybe honey. He gave me a sign not to say a word so i didn't. After dinner i drove him to his house and asked him in the car why he ate the meat although he had never eaten meat in his life before. He said, that this was his fault, he had forgotten to tell the customer that he didn't eat meat. I told him that he could have told him at the restaurant. He said no, for two reasons. First this would have been rude to the customer and created a negative atmosphere, and second and most importantly if he hadn't eaten the meat, it would have been disposed off in the kitchen and thrown away, and then the animals really would have died only to end up in the trash. This is what being a japanese gardener is about, it is about your heart, not your knowledge. You show no respect for the plants in your garden, you use them that's all. If they die, they die, you do not blame yourself and move on as if nothing. That's not how Japanese gardens are made. But then again, i can hear cows in the background of your video, and i am fairly certain they are destined to either end up in someone's plate or even worse, to be used in the dairy industry. So clearly, life is not your main priority. If you do not change your heart, you will never create an authentic Japanese garden, Japanese gardens are like the tea ceremony, it is a spiritual and philosophical and theological path, entirely codified and based on very serious rules, of care and utmost respect. If you follow those rules, the garden will create itself .
Hello, I love your garden. I am writing to you from Spain. A question. Why don't you buy Japanese stone lamps made of granite, they seem much more interesting to me and they are like those of Japan and more there where it seems that the moss comes out easily, they would be incredible, the lava ones are very pretty, but they make me too dark. A greeting from Spain
Thank you so much, we really appreciate that. Spain, what a beautiful country! To answer your question, there are several reasons, why we chose the lanterns we have. We have been looking into buying granite stone lanterns when we designed the garden. There are several companies in Europe that import original granite stone lanterns from Japan, but that comes with a huge price tag of thousands of Euros per lantern and high transport cost due to the weight. So, this was not really an option for us. We are lucky to have the local shop with lava stone lanterns, which are certainly more affordable and we are also happy to support small businesses :)
@@OurJapaneseGardenEscape okay. Perfect. I was able to get some in France and the price is not too high in case one day you are interested. An incredible envy that Japanese maples grow so well there, near Madrid it is practically impossible to maintain them. I really like watching your videos, I will remain very attentive. A big greeting from Spain
@@josemelero6647 I may get back to you regarding the lanterns one day ;) Yes, the maples do really well here. We have acidic soil (around pH 5) and the climate is a zone 6, which fits perfectly. I can imagine that around Madrid or in Spain in general it is very difficult to grow them. Thank you so much, we are happy to hear you like the our channel and really appreciate it. Greetings from frozen Austria :)
@@OurJapaneseGardenEscape Ok, whenever you want. The truth is that yes, they are ideal conditions, the problem in my area is the drying wind that burns them. But hey, I'm very stubborn and I'm acclimating some cultivar. Greetings, in my area today -4 degrees. Hahaha.
In Japanese gardens, every lantern style and shape has a purpose and a very specific position in the garden. Many are not even for gardens but for Temples or Cemeteries and must NEVER be placed in Gardens. An Oribe style lantern is specifically for a Tea Garden and must be paired with a Tsukubai basin, a Yuki Mi Lantern must be placed in the East-West axis of the sun and in a position so it can be seen covered in snow from the Yuki Mi window in the house. And it goes on and on. Lanterns also be buried in the ground not just placed on the ground, unless they have legs, in which case they must be placed on a stone. Your type of Lantern is an imitation of the Rankei Gata style of stone Lanterns 蘭渓型 石灯篭 in Japanese. This style is placed either on a path Tobi Ishi Tatami Ishi etc, or over a Tsukubai or a water area, so this is not bad as you placed it next to a pond, but you must make it face the pond, while at the same time being in an East-West axis. This is because Lanterns placement and the entire Garden Deisgn must follow Fu-Sui or Feng-Shui rules or harmony between elements, cardinal points, stars, sun moon , equinox, solstices. Japanese Garden are based on Chinese Gardens and both are designed and built based on countless esoteric, religious, philosophical, rules in order to keep the balance between nature and humans, and to not disturb the flow of energy. Japanese garden do not feel so peaceful and beautiful just by accident. It takes 10 years to create a complete Japanese garden and many gardeners will not even take the job if they consider the area or the house or even the owner to be disruptive to this energy and those rules. You can't just make a japanese garden, you must study it.
