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Articles in this edition include:
Creating Sanumaya no Niwa at 2026 RHS Chelsea.
Learning from Japanese Moss Gardens.
Establishing Moss Gardens Using Bioreceptive Screed.
UNESCO award for the Islands of Peace.
A Small Show Garden in Antrim.
Appreciating Nature and the Garden while Inside a Machiya in Kyoto.
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
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 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
