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
Receive four splendidly illustrated issues of our journal, “Shakkei” each year
Access our ‘Members Only’ area for past Shakkei articles, recommended and private YouTube videos, and Japanese garden design resources
Regular and informative newsletters by email with invitations to specialist lectures and workshops.
Share your love of Japanese gardens with others for inspiration and advice including making your own Japanese style garden.
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New for our members:
Latest edition: Spring 2025
Articles in this edition include:
- Wanderings through Time and Space: The Japanese Garden at the Irish National Stud in Tully, Ireland
- Buildings and Gardens Part 1 – Japan
- A Postcard from Japan
- Tairyū-sansō: Appreciating the ‘Oneness of
- Garden and Architecture’
- Staying on the Path
Upcoming Japanese Garden Society Events
JGS Blog posts
The Stagecraft of the Bamboo Fence
7 May 2025
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
Jobs of the month – March 2024
26 February 2025
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
Jobs in the Japanese garden – December
11 December 2024
Jobs of the Month, With Senior Gardener Steve Candy from Kingston Lacy Continue with the endless leaf clearing. We like to leave circles of leaves in the short term around