If you are thinking about creating a Japanese garden, we recommend beginning with the space you already have rather than with a shopping list.
Look carefully at the views, boundaries, existing planting, levels and natural focal points. Consider how you want the garden to feel and how you will experience it.
Our practical guide can help you take those first steps.
Creating Your Japanese Garden – A Practical Guide →
Seeing how Japanese garden principles work in real spaces can be one of the best ways to understand them.
Our Showcase Gardens provide ideas and inspiration, showing how different materials, features and design approaches can be brought together.
We hope The JapanGarden Guide helps you understand not only what appears in a Japanese garden, but why it is there.
A Japanese garden is ultimately about relationships — between stone and plant, water and land, architecture and garden, movement and stillness, and perhaps most importantly, between the garden and the person experiencing it.
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