My Garden

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

2009-04-19T06:38:00.000-07:00

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)

2009-04-19T06:34:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-18T06:28:00.000-07:00

Terao Estate : Niigata

2009-04-12T06:20:00.000-07:00

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)

2009-03-26T19:28:00.000-07:00

Homeside Garden

2009-02-24T02:26:00.000-08:00

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

2009-02-24T02:24:00.000-08:00

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

2009-02-24T02:15:00.000-08:00

Backyard Garden

2009-02-24T02:03:00.000-08:00

Building Roof Garden

2009-02-16T17:08:00.000-08:00

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

Yamaguchi Estate

2009-02-16T16:41:00.000-08:00

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

2009-02-16T01:56:00.000-08:00

OUTDOOR GARDEN

2009-02-13T23:13:00.000-08:00

Garden in Meisho Shokai Tokyo Japan

2009-02-12T17:31:00.000-08:00

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

Garden in Ohara Estate Tokyo

2009-02-12T17:27:00.000-08:00

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

2009-02-12T17:18:00.000-08:00

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

Pancuran Antique

2009-02-11T18:37:00.000-08:00

OKI ESTATE TOKYO

2009-02-11T17:47:00.000-08:00

Itabashi Estate Tokyo

2009-02-10T18:46:00.000-08:00

Urban Outdoor Garden

2009-02-06T23:17:00.000-08:00

Lawnmower Man at Hidcote Manor Garden

2009-02-06T20:50:00.000-08:00

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

2009-02-05T20:46:00.000-08:00

Design of Outdoor Garden

2009-02-05T01:54:00.000-08:00

TERRACE

2009-02-03T21:42:00.000-08:00

TERRACE, Outdoor Garden

This garden is designed to be placed outside, or at the back of our home. This are is for chit chat with family while drinking tea. Small blue bench and small wooden table make the garden look good. It is also relaxing place but the bench can not be used for really relaxing because there is no leaning. You cannot lean your backs.

Japanese Garden, Butchart Gardens.Victoria, B.C.

2009-02-01T22:58:00.001-08:00

Japanese Garden, Butchart Gardens.Victoria, B.C.
Originally uploaded by **Mary**

Colorful Garden with pond

The Pond
The pond in the Japanese garden usually takes the form of some pond in nature reproduced in reduced scale. Consequently the constructed pond mostly shows its complicated shore lines.

When the planting work is added to it, the shore line is hidden here and there and gives the depth to the scenery reminding us that of nature.

The Pond

Many of the ponds in the Japanese garden recently designed have works of modern formative art while keeping empasis on the nature's way as before. A good example is the use of cut stones in order to bring about the mood of straight lines.

Associating with modern architecture, the pond can be built on the top of building as well as inside the room. There is a new idea and practice of the modernization of the early Japanese style of pondalso.

Japanese Gardens

2009-02-01T22:57:00.001-08:00

Japanese Gardens
Originally uploaded by WisDoc

Garden with pond and lotus

Japanese Garden, Butchart Gardens.Victoria, B.C.

2009-02-01T22:56:00.001-08:00

Japanese Garden, Butchart Gardens.Victoria, B.C.
Originally uploaded by **Mary**

Natural Garden, quiet and winny

OUTDOOR GARDEN

2009-01-29T22:10:00.001-08:00

Peaceful Image of outdoor garden

Look at the garden !!!
What do you think?

It's good and so green, with stepping stones, big and small. The combination of grass, big flat stones and small stones together with medium-size plants is really good Looking. The sound of water falling from the bamboo adds the natural and suburb description.

Look at the very small black shiny stones! They also make the garden look so wet and cool. Water drops have made the garden grow well.

Have a free space? Design it and build this garden in you place and enjoy the Nature!

Natural Garden

2009-01-28T01:53:00.000-08:00

Back to Nature

This garden is also very natural. It gives peaceful feeling, especially the water which flows. Wet look and green look makes this garden so natural. It does not need too much space. The plants are not necessarily expensive. The plants will also help you get fresh air.

This garden can be put both at the back yard and side yard. If you are creative, you can add pond with colorful fish in it, such as red or yellow. Make sure the water is clear.

If your home is close to the river, it's good to place this garden right next to it. You do not need to put a fence. Just let them be side by side.

JAPANESE GARDEN

2009-01-28T01:33:00.000-08:00

Indoor Garden

Keep every inch of your space giving you peace, and feeling of comfort. Decorate your free space with side garden. This place can be used for afternoon tea or just chit chat with family members. Not for watching TV of course! But reading books, daily papers can be fun.

Check your own home. If you find any space free, just redecorate it. Feel at home in your own home.