My Japanese Garden


Wow! It has taken months of research, lots of consultation with experts, and a lot of compromise. My lovely Japanese Garden was almost complete. All I need now are the cute little ornamental things, maybe a fountain somewhere, and a few benches and we're all done. The front yard was landscaped over a year ago. Please disregard the mess that is around stuff. I've been doing a LOT of weeding.

Please note that I'm trying to make all pictures "clickable" to make larger. Anyway, after reading just about every book that I could find on Japanese gardens, and everything I could on which plants would perish from my horrendous "black thumb" I called Tom Harley from Merrifield Garden Center in Merrifield VA and he sketched out a plan that looked just great! Poor Tom wasn't exactly expecting all of the things I was going to do to the poor man.


I went through the web and found pictures of the trees and plants that he thought would work out the best. Well, I had other ideas and went out to the garden center to pick out cool stuff for myself. Of course, a lot of the things that I picked out likely wouldn't work. We compromised, and little tags went on all of the way cool plants and trees I wanted. And there you have it.



The "pagoda" type thing was built to house the pool equipment that was just sitting out in the middle of a pile of scrub that was supposed to be a lawn somehow. Oh well. That part didn't look very good at all. Next to the pagoda on one side is a beautiful weeping pine I picked out, and on the right side is a Chinese Wisteria. That is going to be great fun.



I'm hoping to be able to get a list of the plants that were used up on this page real soon now. I have to go back and figure out what we put where, since I'm not too good at remembering names of plants (or of people for that matter). But c'est la vie :-).

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