Japanese Gardens

Do you love them too?

The Japanese garden society welcomes anyone who loves Japanese gardens and wants to share their enthusiasm and knowledge with like minded others.

Join the Japanese garden society

Organised visits to private and public Japanese gardens in all of our five regions

Share your love of Japanese gardens with others for inspiration and advice including making your own Japanese style garden.

Receive four splendidly illustrated issues of our journal, “Shakkei” each year & regular informative newsletters by email with invitations to specialist lectures and workshops.

Access our ‘Members Only’ area for past Shakkei articles, recommended and private YouTube videos, and Japanese garden design resources

New for our members:

Latest edition: Autumn 2025

Articles in this edition include:

  • Bringing Cha No Niwa to life at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025
  • RHS Wentworth Woodhouse Long Border
  • The Japanese Garden in Birmingham is on the move!
  • If Walls Could Talk: Discovering Sakan in the Japanese Garden
  • Use of Japanese gardening methods to improve biodiversity within UK gardens
  • Shido Temple: Garden of the Wandering Dead

Upcoming Japanese Garden Society Events

October 2025
Oct 19
19 October 2025
Birmingham Botanic gardens, Birmingham Botanical Gardens (BBG), Westbourne Gardens,
Birmingham, B15 3TR
December 2025
Dec 12
12 December 2025
Kingston Lacy National Trust Garden, Kingston Lacy Garden
Wimborne, BHS21 4EA United Kingdom
January 2026
Jan 18
18 January 2026
On-line,

JGS Blog posts

The Stagecraft of the Bamboo Fence

The Stagecraft of the Bamboo Fence Course participants and Ueyakato staff at Tairyu-Sanso Garden. Photocredit: ©Ueyakato Landscape, Photos: Yujiro Sagami I’m a JGS member and landscape designer in the South

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Japanese pagoda seen through colourful tree trunks

Jobs of the month – March 2024

With Senior Gardener Steve Candy from Kingston Lacy Snowdrop planting. Here at Kingston Lacy, vast swathes of snowdrops have appeared and over the next few weeks we will be planting

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