The Inddor Garden of Hotel Tokyo: Tokyo (Work of Azubu Ueyu)

Hotel Tokyo: Tokyo (Work of Azubu Ueyu) – The pattern on the Ginkakuji-style water basin somehow matches with the rhombus of the bamboo fence.

Hyotanya: Tokyo (Work of Tokai Noen)

Hyotanya: Tokyo (Work of Tokai Noen) – The water wheel in No. 42 is the point view at the far end of the entrance

Water Fall through Window View - Japanese Garden

Terao Estate : Niigata

Terao Estate : Niigata (Work of Takeuchi Zaen)- The water starts at the far end of the garden and finally poures into the pond

Tokyo (Work of Tokai Noen)

Homeside Garden

Imaeda Estate: (Work of Tokai Zoen) Water from the stone basin control the view of Inner approach. So Natural ! Want to have one in your house? Build it and fel the taste of piece inside your house. It can create peacefull feeling and happiness.

Window View Garden 2

Usami Estate: Tokyo (Work of Yamamutu Zoen)Water from the stone basin helps creating a hillside village air. Want to have one in your house? Build it and fel the taste of piece inside your house. It can create peacefull feeling and happiness.

Window View Garden

Backyard Garden

Building Roof Garden

Tokyo
This is the work of Kiyaki Tobayashi:
The stode well-curb plays the source of the garden stream.

Yamaguchi Estate

Yamaguchi Estate: Tokyo, work of Toshio Hashimoto.
The straight line of the Nobeden Path and the Yukimi style stone lantern are making the pond shore view effective.

Frence - Gourdon's Garden

OUTDOOR GARDEN

Garden in Meisho Shokai Tokyo Japan

The Dinamic Stones arrangement utilizes The object d'art water basin for its attraction center. Workof Ken Dokey

Garden in Ohara Estate Tokyo

Garden in Ohara Estate Tokyo

The area of The water basin is well brightened by The Sound Spreading. Interseting? Please build one outside your house.

Garden Eki Estate Tokyo

The View of Tsukubai and its surrounding as seen from the house. Interior is also attractive.

Pancuran Antique

OKI ESTATE TOKYO

Itabashi Estate Tokyo

Urban Outdoor Garden

Lawnmower Man at Hidcote Manor Garden

You'll see him framed at the end of the shot! Hidcote Manor Garden is one of England's great gardens. It was the life's passion of one man, self-taught gardener Lawrence Johnston who created his 'garden of rooms' here.

The creator of Hidcote

Lawrence Johnston was born in Paris of American parents. He came to England to study at Cambridge University.

After graduating, he fought for the British Army. He was so badly wounded in the First World War that he was laid out for burial. His colleagues realised that he was still alive only after he moved slightly.

In 1907, Johnston's mother, Mrs Gertrude Winthrop, bought the Hidcote Manor Estate. Johnston came to live at Hidcote and soon took to gardening.

Developing a masterpiece

Johnston spent 41 years creating what would become one of England's most influential 20th-century gardens. He began work in 1907, becoming interested in making a garden out of the fields surrounding the house.

The garden was developed in the fashionable Arts & Crafts style: a series of outdoor 'rooms' offering surprises and discoveries at each turn.

By the 1920s, the transformation was well under way. Johnston employed 12 full-time gardeners to help shape his 10-acre creation. He always took advice and read extensively on the work of eminent gardeners, such as Gertrude Jekyll.

'A garden of rooms'

Johnston designed Hidcote as a series of outdoor 'rooms', which combine sensuous masses of colour with traditional garden crafts such as topiary. Each room has its own distinct atmosphere and character.

The hedges that divide the rooms sprung up due to the plot's exposed aspect. Johnston planted hedges of holly, beech, hornbeam and yew for shelter and structure.

Exotic plants

As well as a gardener, Lawrence Johnston was an accomplished plantsman. The range of plants he used was huge.

In a never-ending quest, he secured rare and exotic species by sponsoring and taking part in plant hunting expeditions. Trips took him to the Alps, Kenya and South Africa. He also plant-swapped with the Australians and the Japanese.

The expeditions introduced over 40 new plants to cultivation in the UK, many of which bear Johnston's name. He was awarded three Awards of Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society for his plant hunting achievements.

The National Trust learns to garden

In 1948, Lawrence Johnston retired to Serre de la Madone, his home on the French Riviera where he had created another spectacular garden.

Hidcote Manor Garden came to the National Trust, the first property acquired specifically for the garden.

While carrying forward the spirit of Lawrence Johnston, Hidcote has changed over time since the 1930s. Lack of funding has led to areas of the garden becoming overgrown and many of Johnston's tender plants being replaced.

'This place is a jungle of beauty. I cannot hope to describe it in words, for indeed it is an impossible thing to reproduce the shape, colour, depth and design of such a garden through the poor medium of prose'

French Garden at Duke Farms