A Path Through the Japanese Garden

What is a Japanese garden? Japanese gardens are about experience—about feeling the way the rocks and plants relate and about understanding their deeper relationship. Just as you instinctively find the place in a room where you feel comfortable, you will learn to trust your instincts about where a rock should be placed in a garden. In A Path Through the Japanese Garden, we learn about the natural world in a philosophical way, but it is also a practical book that provides step-by-step guidance in designing and creating a garden. Contents include the principles of Japanese garden construction; adaptable garden plans for any space or size garden; explanations of Japanese construction and pruning techniques; information on plants, flowers, trees, shrubs, and water features; and 200 color photos and diagrams.

What is a Japanese garden? Most people have a mental image: vistas of rocks and pebbles, a red maple tree, a stand of bamboo, lanterns. All of these could be a part of a Japanese garden, but they do not in themselves make the garden Japanese in style. Japanese gardens are about experience: about feeling the way the rocks and plants relate and about understanding their deeper relationship. Just as you instinctively find the place in a room where you feel comfortable, you will learn to trust your instincts about where a rock should be placed in a garden. In A Path Through the Japanese Garden we learn about the natural world in a philosophical way, but it is also a practical book that provides step-by-step guidance in designing and creating a garden. Contents include: the principles of Japanese garden construction; adaptable garden plans for any space or size garden; explanations of Japanese construction and pruning techniques; information on plants, flowers, trees, shrubs and water features. 200 color photos and diagrams.