Moss – Love'em or Kill'em – and Japanese Gardens
Author: Ewa in the Garden
Moss is well loved and hated in the garden. Often passionately rake away. Why not consider this as a blessing for your garden? Their shapes are very difficult to recognize – you must book good for that and magnifying glass. I do not remember since when I love moss. I think forever. Soft, fragile and moist. In my Moss garden is welcome everywhere. I try to grow in my stones too. A few months ago, was covered with yogurt dilluted with water 1:1. No great effect, however, only little green thing appeared.
You can enjoy the beauty of Moss, especially in winter – when walking lush and soft. Grass grows in the shade? Great! I I need to move. The grass is weaker and weaker in these spots and patches of moss, are larger and more important … and greener. Moss, reminds me my second biggest and earliest garden fascination of Japanese gardens.
I seek peace and harmony in the garden. In small gardens it is even more important avoid making the plants more different.
I love nature and meditative calm. I remember that time in communist Poland, there were not many books about gardening and the Far East – that was my particular interest at this time. I made friends with the shop owner selling used / old books. Whenever something about Japan appears in the set, I received a phone call and I immediatelly in the store to see.
There are six characteristics synonymous with excellent not only Japanese, but the landscape of the garden.
According to the ancient book of gardens, there should be six different qualities that a garden can aspire.
They are grouped in their traditional peers complementary, they are:
Size and confinement
Fireworks and Antiquity
rivers and landscapes.
As experts say is very difficult to find a garden has been blessed with three or four of these desirable attributes, let alone five or more rarely six.
Without But there is one such case in Japan.
His name is "Kenroku-in" which means "garden that combines six characteristics, which is appointed by Sadanobu Matsudaira feudal load in the current Tohoku district (northern mainland Japan).
Plants recommended for Japanese gardens:
Trees and shrubs
Acer, plamatum Acer japonicum, Acer ginnala, Amelanchier canadensis, Cercis chinensis, Chamaecyparis obtusa, Cornus kousa, Cryptomeria japonica, Gingko biloba, Pinus nigra, Pinus thunbergiana, Pinus densiflora, Kobus Magnolia, Magnolia stellata, Prunus cerasifera, Prunus mume, Prunus serrulata, Prunus armeniaca, Sciadopitys verticillata, Tsuga canadensis,
Trees, shrubs and medium
Japonica Acer palmatum 'Spirea Dissectum', Chaenomeles japonica, Chaenomeles Lagenaria, Euonymus alatus, Enkianthus campanulatus, Forsytia x intermedia, Forsytia suspensa, Juniperus chinensis 'Armstrongii', Kerria japonica, Mahonia aquifolium, Pieris japonica, Rhododendrons, azaleas, Syringa vulgaris
Small shrubs
Buxus microphylla, Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Nana', Daphne cneorum Ilex crenata, Juniperus chinensis' Blue Vase 'Compacta' Pinus mugo 'Rhododendron obtusum, Rhododendron kaempferi, Spirea Spirea japonica bumalda, Globosa Thuja occidentalis'' Viburnum carlesii
All are accompanied by different types of grasses, moss, perennials, bamboo, that could be Ivy elected depending on climatic zones.
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