Planting 2022
9 October 2023
I start to plant a garden. The summer of 2022 was not the best of times for planting. In June the moor was beleaguered by a cold desiccating east wind
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Latest edition: Autumn 2023
Articles in this edition include:
Hidden Secrets at Ichinomiya Temple
The rewards of good maintenance.
Pruning Japanese Maples
The Japanese Garden in Hasselt, Belgium.
Musée Départemental Albert-Kahn – the Japanese village and contemporary garden
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JGS Blog posts
Constructing the walls
24 May 2023
To be true to the location walls should be drystone. The Yorkshire Dales National Park alone has 8000Km of drystone wall. Road and field boundaries across the north of England
Space and Illusion
11 December 2022
If I were to have one book about Japanese Gardens it would be the first one I bought almost 40 years ago. “Space and Illusion“by Teiji Itoh is a book