Miniature Japanese Gardens: Beautiful Bonsai Landscape Gardens for Your Home
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Bring the tranquility of Japanese garden design into any space in your home or office. Miniature Japanese Gardens shows you how to create simple Japanese-style container gardens using inexpensive plants and materials that are available everywhere!
A detailed plan of each garden provides a basic template, along with information about plant types and containers. The container itself can be an old pot, ceramic bowl, or just about anything you might have lying around. Such "found" objects lend themselves to the Japanese art of wabi-sabi--the beauty of imperfection. Add rocks and other elements to produce mini Zen gardens that enhance any interior space.
Miniature Japanese Gardens contains step-by-step instructions and photos of over 40 different projects, including:
- Kokedama (moss ball)
- A miniature bamboo grove
- A variety of bonsai trees
- And many more!
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Miniature Japanese Gardens - Kenji Kobayashi
PART ONE
Designing a Miniature Bonsai Landscape
Bonsai landscaping is a method by which scenery can be rendered in a pot according to one’s own tastes. However, even if you have some experience with bonsai, making landscapes calls for a different approach. This section covers approaches to establishing various landscapes in pots—the number and composition of plants required to recreate such scenery and techniques for effective use of stones, ornamental sand and the like, comparing photos of landscapes and completed bonsai to illustrate and inspire.
Basic Bonsai Landscape Techniques
First of all, here are the instructions for creating the most basic of bonsai landscapes composed of a single seedling, moss and ornamental sand. Regardless of the type of bonsai landscape you’re making, this is the basic method, so make sure to master it. Here, we will make a bonsai landscape with a single tree using a Chinese elm (Ulmus parvifolia Jacq.) and Leucobryum juniperoideum.
METHOD
1. Place a net over the hole in the base of the pot and secure it with aluminum wire, then use the scoop to pour in stones to line the base (large grain Fuji sand). [see tools and instructions in part 5].
2. Use the scoop to add compost until the base stones are concealed.
3. Use pruning scissors to trim off old or damaged leaves. Check that there are no insects on the backs of the leaves.
4. Use the tips of your tweezers to brush off the soil around the roots a little at a time.
5. Draw out the roots and use scissors to trim the ends, adjusting the size of the upper section.
6. Hold the seedling in the pot and use a scoop to pour soil in.
7. Use a chopstick to work the soil into gaps around the roots, packing it in firmly.
8. Press the soil with a small spatula to release any air inside and make the soil more compact.
9. Spray the soil 3–5 times with an atomizer to firm it, making sure the water is absorbed.
10. Place a large piece of moss on the desired spot.
11. Using a chopstick at the edge of the moss to hold it in place, press the moss firmly into the soil.
12. Work in the same way to add more moss, taking care to make it look as if it’s spreading naturally.
13. Use a scoop to add in ornamental gravel (Maifan stones) over areas where the soil is visible.
14. Use a spatula to level the ornamental gravel and make it neater
15. Complete by spraying it all over with an atomizer.
CHAPTER 1
Mountain Landscapes
MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPES 1
A Forest Landscape with Moss
SCENERY FOR INSPIRATION
Serissa japonica and Pleurozium schreberi have been used to evoke the forests of Yakushima island, where humidity is high and everything is covered in a thick layer of moss. When you set foot in the forest to see its unusual plants and creatures, the mysterious atmosphere inspires a feeling of awe, which this work expresses.
COMPOSITION
Plant Serissa japonica at the center and spread Pleurozium schreberi around it. Pleurozium schreberi is characterized by its tendency to spread up and along tree branches, and by incorporating it here the tree’s surface will be covered, creating a pleasing texture. However, if it spreads too much over the pot it looks unkempt, so keep it within certain limits. To evoke an untouched wilderness, keep maintenance of the tree to a minimum by trimming off intersecting branches and the like, training the tree so it spreads outwards to achieve a horizontal form.
MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPES 2
A Moss-Covered Wilderness
SCENERY FOR INSPIRATION
A bonsai of Chinese elm (Ulmus parvifolia) and Pleurozium schreberi calls to mind the forest landscape of Yaeyama, where a blanket of moss covers the trunks of huge trees. It’s a vision of a paradise where plants grow