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

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.

To support our charity

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

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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