Comfortable Monday GPODers!
We’ve seen a number of of the unimaginable Japanese-style gardens Bas Suharto has created in Canada (Constructing a Japanese-Impressed Backyard, A Japanese-Model Courtyard Backyard, and Constructing a Backyard With Bas), and right now we get to see one other serene design. As an added bonus, he’s included the completely 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 pictures, he added a rock in entrance of a ‘Beni-kaze’ hakone (Hakonechloa macra ‘Beni-kaze’, Zones 5–9). Additionally one other picture 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 present garden, crops and timber. Right here is the picture of his again yard earlier than winter in December 2020.
Stefan wished much less garden and extra organized or grouped crops to have simpler upkeep. I proposed the preliminary design with a sketch. There are some present timber like burgundy smoke timber and fruit timber. We mentioned the preliminary design with this sketch and he favored the thought.
I finalized the sketch right into a 3D drawing for displaying the best look. Stefan favored very a lot the thought of a Japanese backyard with a “peninsula” and an “island,” and dry lake look known as karesansui. (For extra data 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 checklist.
Summer season 2021, We minimize, trimmed, pruned and eliminated present shrubs and timber. 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 blended with prime 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 beneath 3/8” river wash stones and stepping stones (flag stones).
Stefan continues working by himself planting the crops based mostly 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 evaluate; pruning or fixing sure crops, repositioning the rocks. Early autumn 2024 I visited his backyard once more, under are the pictures.
The bottom cowl, thyme rising effectively, 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 picture of his backyard, the world we added with raked gravels and rock preparations (do you see a zigzag rocks like transferring?)
Thanks for sharing one other lush and impressed design, Bas! I’m all the time envious of your pals and neighbors that get to make the most of your unimaginable eye.
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