JAPAN - Garden Guide
Your Bonsai - Essential Tips for Good Health
Bonsai originated in China more than one thousand years ago; however, the Bonsai was developed by the Japanese. Bonsai is a Japanese word meaning "tray-planted" or simply defined bonsai is a plant in a pot. The bonsai is much...
History Of The Jujube Tree
Chinese poets spoke about the wonderful jujube in 600 BC. The fruit of the jujube has been used in ancient Chinese medicine for many nutritional remedies for 2500 years. Jujubes were used by Gerard in Europe as a medicinal herb...
Bonsai Trees
What are Bonsai trees? Many people think of tiny little Japanese trees cut and pruned to a miniature size but literally speaking Bonsai means plant in a tray and while they are smaller than their wild counterparts they...
About The History Of Trimming And Sculpting Bonsai Trees
About 2000 years ago the first bonsai trees should have been planted already in trays in China. In China people mentions the miniaturised creation of bonsai trees Pensai. Besides, the typical growth forms of the tree vegetation...
Foraging In The Forest: Finding Materials That Link Your Home To The Great Outdoors
Thinking about redecorating? Before you run to the nearest interior design store, consider looking to the forests instead. Natural, minimally-worked materials help make an interior that seamlessly transitions from the outdoors...
Sampler of Rare Fruits for Fun or Profit
Here is a sampler of unusual fruits showing up on temperate climate farms and in nurseries. Their rarity in your location, of course, depends on your growing region.Sea Buckthorn (Hipprophae rhamnoides)A very productive northern f
About Basic Bonsai Tools
First let me start by stating a difference in japanese bonsai tools and chinese bonsai tools. Chinese tools are more cost affordable but frequently built of lesser quality. Japanese tools cost more, and frequently comes in...
How Wind Chimes Make Noise
There are several different types of wind chimes that make noise in different ways. All wind chimes are percussion instruments. That means the noise is created when a hammer or clapper strikes another part of the wind chime and...
Quickly Grow a Natural Privacy Screen or Sound Barrier
The Perfect Fast-Growing Evergreen Screen
This week we are featuring an evergreen that is not only fast growing, beautiful and low-maintenance, but supplies the ideal privacy screen - 'Thuja 'Steeplechase.' 'Steeplechase' is a...
Rugosa Roses - Fragrant, Tough and Handsome Shrub Roses
Rugosa Roses are some of the toughest and most handsome shrub roses available. They are fragrant, black spot and mildew resistant and are vigorous growers - blooming recurrently throughout the season. Rugosa Roses can be...
Garden Bridges: Impact Gardens Dramatically With Wooden Garden Bridges
Nothing adds form and functionality more attractively than wooden garden bridges placed strategically outdoor landscape appeal. This hardscape item can add dramatic interest to water gardens; serve as a practical (and...
The Secret of Rooting Cuttings
The secret of rooting cuttings can be summed up in two words.Timing and technique.When you do your cuttings is every bit as important as how you do them. So if you do the right thing, at the right time of the year, your...
Bonsai Trees For House And Garden
What plants, other than ferns and cut-leaf maples, would you recommend to be included in a Japanese garden? There is a great variety of plants that could be used in a Japanese garden. It depends on what type of garden you have...
Garden Bugs
For as much as I like most bugs, they undoubtedly have a way of ruining a garden in a very timely fashion. As a child, I would run from the garden to the woods, transplanting as many garden bugs as possible before my mother...
The Azalea Shrubs Are Easy Plants To Grow In Shade
Most gardeners consider the azalea shrub as an easy plant to grow, if located in the most suitable environment. Azaleas can be divided into two recognizable groups, the evergreen azalea and the deciduous azalea, which drops all...
Koi Ponds - Choosing a Great Design for Your Koi Fish Pond
When you think of your ideal Koi pond, what do you see? Do you envision yourself in the middle of a serene Japanese garden, a small intimate country garden, or perhaps something else? Once you have a general idea of what you...
History Of The Jujube Tree
Chinese poets spoke about the wonderful jujube in 600 BC. The fruit of the jujube has been used in ancient Chinese medicine for many nutritional remedies for 2500 years. Jujubes were used by Gerard in Europe as a medicinal herb...
The Art of Japanese Bonsai
The Japanese refined and developed Bonsai techniques and evolved the art form it is today. For the Japanese, bonsai represents a fusion of strong ancient beliefs with the Eastern philosophies of the harmony between man, the...
Fascinating Things to Know About the Juniper Bonsai
There are over 50 species of the evergreen juniper. Typically found in dry forests and mountainous regions, the juniper in the wild can live for 200 years, although junipers, when turned into bonsais, only live for two or three...
Japanese Maples, the Dwarf Acers
I have been known to rant on about how people should try to include more native plants within their garden. However, I would never dissuade someone from including a Japanese maple within his or her garden; on the contrary, I...