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Completely satisfied Monday GPODers!
We’ve seen a number of of the unbelievable Japanese-style gardens Bas Suharto has created in Canada (Constructing a Japanese-Impressed Backyard, A Japanese-Type Courtyard Backyard, and Constructing a Backyard With Bas), and as we speak we get to see one other serene design. As an added bonus, he’s included the totally different mock-ups he created via the design course of.
I need to share the again backyard of my pal, Stefan. Lately he despatched me photographs, he added a rock in entrance of a ‘Beni-kaze’ hakone (Hakonechloa macra ‘Beni-kaze’, Zones 5–9). Additionally one other photograph the place he added a taller rock on the center of the “island”.
The start of his backyard. I visited Stefan in Mont-Bleu, Quebec earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic. We mentioned his again backyard, which had an current garden, vegetation and bushes. Right here is the photograph of his again yard earlier than winter in December 2020.
Stefan needed much less garden and extra organized or grouped vegetation to have simpler upkeep. I proposed the preliminary design with a sketch. There are some current bushes like burgundy smoke bushes and fruit bushes. We mentioned the preliminary design with this sketch and he preferred the concept.
I finalized the sketch right into a 3D drawing for exhibiting the perfect look. Stefan preferred very a lot the concept of a Japanese backyard with a “peninsula” and an “island,” and dry lake look referred to as karesansui. (For extra info on the historical past of Japanese dry gardens, try this superior article from College of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
The ultimate backyard plan with the plant record.
Summer season 2021, We minimize, trimmed, pruned and eliminated current shrubs and bushes. We buried all branches and leaves to create “a hill” and “an island”, and lined them with the underside of eliminated garden/grass. The planting space was added with marine compost combined with high soil. I solely labored with Stefan over a number of days. Above is a photograph of labor in progress of constructing the backyard. I put in geotextile below 3/8” river wash stones and stepping stones (flag stones).
Stefan continues working by himself planting the vegetation primarily based on the design. He planted the inexperienced floor cowl, creeping thyme (Thymus serpyllum, Zones 4–8) on the “island and peninsula”.
Final summer season I visited Stefan’s backyard to evaluation; pruning or fixing sure vegetation, repositioning the rocks. Early autumn 2024 I visited his backyard once more, beneath are the photographs.
The bottom cowl, thyme rising nicely, on the far proper has Golden Japanese forest grass (Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’, Zones 5–9).
Grouped ‘Purple Ardour’ hostas (Hosta ‘Purple Ardour’, Zones 4–8) and thyme floor cowl.
Results of final summer season (2024) “niwaki” trimming the Japanese laceleaf maple to have in a tree like form.
One other photograph of his backyard, the realm we added with raked gravels and rock preparations (do you see a zigzag rocks like shifting?)
Thanks for sharing one other lush and impressed design, Bas! I’m at all times envious of your folks and neighbors that get to make the most of your unbelievable eye.
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