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All About Creating Japanese Gardens (Ortho's All About Gardening)

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All About Creating Japanese Gardens (Ortho's All About Gardening)

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Japanese gardens have long been appreciated for providing beautiful, tranquil spaces that evoke feelings of sanctuary, often in short supply these days. This practical guide to Japanese gardening teaches you how to:
• Use centuries-old garden design techniques to create tranquil spaces that evoke a feeling of sanctuary.
• Select and arrange plants and ornaments in a traditional design while at the same time emphasizing your personal tastes.
• Calm your busy lifestyle, inspire peace of mind and reflect nature to create serenity.

Product Details

Author:	Ortho
Paperback:	112 pages
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication Date:	January 21, 2003
Language:	English
ISBN:	0897214897
Product Length:	8.2 inches
Product Width:	0.31 inches
Product Height:	11.0 inches
Product Weight:	0.9 pounds
Package Length:	10.7 inches
Package Width:	8.0 inches
Package Height:	0.4 inches
Package Weight:	0.8 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 18 reviews

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Average Customer Review: 5.0

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43 of 46 found the following review helpful:

Photos & how-to's. Learn how to add a Japanese touch. Sep 09, 1998
A great "first book" on the subject of Japanese gardening. Nice color photos (but never enough), and the how-to's are easy to understand. A section on various shaped stones and stone placement. I refer back to mine often.

31 of 33 found the following review helpful:

Great intro Feb 01, 2006 By RDR
I got this book from the library and was pleasantly surprised at the details and useful, practical advice on conceiving and executing a japanese garden. The book contains detailed instructions on how to lay out, build, select plans for, and maintain a Japanese-inspired garden. It talks about rocks, rock gardening, ponds, water plants and fish, paths, stepping stones, gates, and plants and plant selections. I found it really helpful in getting ideas to give to our landscape architect. I would recommend this book for anyone that is going to actually build (rather than just enjoy looking at pictures of) a japanese garden.

51 of 63 found the following review helpful:

Kill Your Lawn - Part 4 Aug 04, 2001 By Bruce Crocker "agnostictrickster"
Creating Japanese Gardens has been a helpful tool in the process of killing my lawn. If you've read my other reviews, you may wonder why a person with a cactus garden would need a book on Japanese gardens? Think hybrid between a Zen garden and a cactus garden. The basic plan for the garden was constructed with the help of this book. Everything I know about Japanese gardens comes from this wonderful little text. Most of the elements of a Japanese garden appear in my front yard, but with heavy substitution of Southwestern icons for Japanese icons. Trade Mexican-style chimneys for Japanese lanterns; trade coyote for Buddha; trade the traditional plants of a cactus garden for the traditional plants of a Japanese garden. The paths use redrock flagstone and the stones in the dry stream and other places in the garden all come from western deserts and mountains. It's been hours and hours of dirty fun. I do have a request-if you buy this wonderful book and intend to put a traditional Japanese garden in your yard with the traditional Japanese elements, please make sure your climate is wet enough to support the garden without excess added water.

9 of 9 found the following review helpful:

For inspiration, start here Feb 18, 2007 By ScotDeerie
I've always wanted to have a Japanese Garden but never got around to doing it. I picked up this book at the library and, WOW, it has really inspired me! Not only am I now drafting up plans to turn a corner of my yard into a Japanese Garden but I showed it to a neighbor and he's thinking of making his backyard into something like the courtyard garden on page 20. I'll probably get a library of books on Japanese Gardening but this book will be the first one I'll buy.

7 of 7 found the following review helpful:

Good value for the money Nov 27, 2010 By L.Berry Paolic "NightStar"
For its small price tag, this book delivers what is promised. I got one solid idea from it for my planned Japanese garden that had not occurred to me before & that made it well worth the price. (The idea was using small stones as ground cover, juxtaposed with larger stones. You need to see the pictures to understand how to do it).
My only negative is I would have liked more pictures & descriptions of small-space, backyard gardens. Many of the pictures showed 300 year old gardens or ones that require a park in your backyard to create them.

Overall I enjoyed the book, and when I want to feel zen-like, I can just pick it up & look at the pictures. :-))

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