Moss – Love’em or Kill’em – and Japanese Gardens
Gardening No Comments »Moss is either loved or hated in the garden. People often passionately rake it away. Why does not it look like a blessing for your garden? The species are very difficult to see – you need right book for that and magnifying glass. I do not remember since when I love moss. I think there forever. Soft, moist and fragile. In my garden, moss is welcomed everywhere. I try it on my stones to grow as well. Few months I have covered them with yoghurt diluted with water 1:1. No great effect yet appeared, but little bit greenish. You can appreciate the beauty of moss, especially in winter – when it committed to lush green and so soft. Growing in the lawn in the shade? Great! I do not need to move. Grass will be weaker and weaker in those spots, moss and patches larger and larger. . . and more and more green. Moss reminds me of my second big garden and the fascination of the oldest Japanese gardens. I seek peace and harmony in the garden. In the smaller gardens it is even more important, not overloaded with too many different plants. I like them for meditative and tranquill character. I remember that was in the communist period in Poland there are not many books about landscape and the Far East – that was my particular interest at this time. I made friends with the owner of the shop selling used / old books. Whenever something about Japan appeared on the shelf I get a call and I was immediatelly run to the shop to see it. There are six features as a synonym for excellent, not only Japanese but landscape garden. According to the ancient book of gardens, it should be six different qualities, which can aim for a garden. They are grouped in their traditional complementary pairs, they are: Spaciousness and seclusion artifice & antiquity Water courses & panoramas. As the specialists say, “it’s hard enough to make a garden that is blessed with every three or four of these desirable properties can be divided into five or even more rare to find all six.” But there is one such case in Japan. His name is “Kenroku-en,” the “garden, which means six properties, which is by Sadanobu Matsudaira, a feudal load in the present Tohoku district (northern part of mainland Japan joins named). Plants recommended for Japanese gardens: Trees and shrubs Plamatum Acer, Acer japonicum, Acer ginnala, Amelanchier canadensis, Cercis chinensis, Chamaecyparis obtusa, Cornus kousa, Cryptomeria japonica, Gingko biloba, Pinus nigra, Pinus thunbergiana, Pinus densiflora, Magnolia Kobus, Magnolia stellata, Prunus cerasifera, Prunus mume, Prunus serrulata , Prunus armeniaca, Sciadopitys verticillata, Tsuga canadensis, Trees and shrubs of medium size Acer palmatum ‘Dissectum’ spirea japonica, Chaenomeles japonica, Chaenomeles Lagenaria, Euonymus alatus, superb bells 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’, Pinus mugo ‘Compacta’, Rhododendron obtusum, Rhododendron kaempferi, spirea japonica, Spirea bumalda, Thuja occidentalis ‘globosa’, Viburnum carlesii All these plants are accompanied by various types of grass, moss, shrubs, bamboo, ivy that might be chosen for the climate zone. If you are interested, please visit http://wwww more. . Ewainthegarden blogspot. com