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    Japanese Gardens Revealed and Explained: Things To Know About The Worlds Most Beautiful Gardens
    Japanese Gardens Revealed and Explained: Things To Know About The Worlds Most Beautiful Gardens
    Japanese Gardens Revealed and Explained: Things To Know About The Worlds Most Beautiful Gardens
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    Japanese Gardens Revealed and Explained: Things To Know About The Worlds Most Beautiful Gardens

    By Russ Chard

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    Japanese Gardens - Revealed and Explained is comprehensive and thorough in its coverage of the subject of Japanese gardens and provides the reader with a journey through their history, meaning and eye catching beauty.
    All aspects of Japanese gardens and gardening are covered from design to ingredients and it even covers subjects like pruning techniques as well as numerous suggestions of what to plant in a Japanese garden courtesy of Master gardener L.H. Bailey.

    Discover Zen gardens (sometimes known as Japanese Rock gardens) and the deliberate ease of their appearance on the eye,meaning and design.This book is suitable for beginners right the way through to more experienced enthusiasts of Japanese gardens.

    Lovingly put together by the author and editor Russ Chard - a Japanese garden enthusiast and writer for over 10 years.Weblinks are included to Youtube videos to see how the author built a small space Japanese Zen garden at his home.

    This book is not plumped up with photographs, just 70 pages of pure Japanese garden information. The subject is complicated but Japanese gardens - Revealed and Explained is in plain English and simplified and explained for ease of learning. Anyone with ambitions to create and build a Japanese garden or Zen garden would find this book a very useful companion to their dream and plans through to the finished garden.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZenibo Marketing Ltd
    Release dateFeb 2, 2013
    ISBN9781909908017
    Japanese Gardens Revealed and Explained: Things To Know About The Worlds Most Beautiful Gardens

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      Japanese Gardens Revealed and Explained - Russ Chard

      Introduction

      Whether you are an established enthusiast of Japanese and Zen gardens or are maybe simply interested in creating one, however large or small, this manual will provide invaluable assistance to help you achieve your garden dreams.

      ‘Japanese Gardens –Revealed And Explained’ is a definitive guide to learning all about Japanese and Zen gardens too!

      Don’t worry in the slightest if you haven’t got green fingers because it doesn’t matter one iota. My book will help you appreciate and understand exactly what they are, why they are the way that they are and provide you with a wealth of knowledge into the bargain.

      Creating a Japanese garden can be comparatively simple but the more ambitious that you are the more complicated the job can become.

      It’s not just about placing plants, shrubs, rocks and water features in a random fashion in your yard or garden and thinking that’s it.

      Some people quite rightly refer to Japanese / Zen gardens as works of art and this is the thinking you should be put into the creation or maintenance of your own garden. Therefore, you have to decide what you are going to put into your garden and why.

      There are numerous elements that are important to the design of a Japanese garden such as elements and defining characteristics.

      This book is not a design manual for such a garden but a guide to what ‘elements’ should make up a Japanese garden – plants, shrubs, trees, water features and plants. Master garden architect Albert D Taylor, M.S.A. gives you the benefit of his years of experience to help and inspire you with suggestions and ideals.

      Zen gardens are covered fully too, these follow very specific design rules as well but the good news is they are easy to build and you don’t need a big space in which to do it!

      Predominantly, this book is about Japanese gardens and reflects the elements that you need to achieve that tranquil haven that you desire with good sound advice. No technical gobble de gook, just helpful hints and tips! You won’t find it clogged up with pictures either – it is just the information that hopefully you will need.

      I hope you find it both inspiring and useful. Good Luck!

      Russell Chard-Editor

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      Japanese Gardens

      A History

      The Japanese tradition is to revere nature and their gardens always are meant to be quiet retreats away from the stresses and strains of everyday life.

      A common factor in some types is that they are meant to be viewed from one area to take in the views, ingredients and over time the changing seasons.

      The 3 basic elements of Japanese gardens are:

      Water

      Rocks

      Plants/ Trees

      There are other sub-elements but I will get onto them further on in this book.

      The history of Japanese gardens goes back hundreds of years and it is now accepted that they actually mostly derived in China.

      Many hundreds of years ago the Chinese started designing recreational gardens and as they developed news of these structures and their ingredients spread.

      Gardening was almost a philosophy and it’s fair to say reached its peak in ancient times in Japan. The Japanese created a sort of ‘light’ version of Chinese gardens, for want of a better term, they distilled what the Chinese had done to suit their own culture and beliefs.

      The Japanese imported these garden ideas from China during the period known as the Han Dynasty.

      Emperor Wu Di who lived from 140-87 BC first created a garden containing 3 small islands.

      These were meant to represent the Isles of the Immortals who were considered to be Toaist gods, this set a trend for all gardens to concentrate on replicating the land of legend.

      Japanese gardens today mimic nature but this was not the case during the Han period. The only gardens built were to display mythical lands and landscapes. So there was a good deal of imagination being used!

      The first hill and pond garden in Japan was established in the early 600’s AD when the Chinese Emperor Yang Di

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