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
Receive four splendidly illustrated issues of our journal, “Shakkei” each year, straight to your doorstep.
Access to our ‘Members only’ area of the website where you can read past articles from Shakkei, recommended and society made videos and useful resources such as Japanese garden designers.
Regular and informative newsletters by email with invitations to specialist lectures and workshops.
Members only, organised visits to private Japanese gardens in all of our five regions where you can 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: Summer 2024
Articles in this edition include:
An interview with Landscape Designer Enzo (Satoru Tabata).
Adapting Japanese Gardens for the Future:
Adapting to Change: Enhancing Urban Green Spaces
Resilience to Climate Shifts through Strategic Tree Planting and Ecosystem Modelling.
The Adaptation of What? Japanese Gardens and the West.
Visitor safety in Japanese gardens.
Upcoming Japanese Garden Society Events
JGS Blog posts
A Japanese shelter
28 April 2024
A place to sit, drink tea and read verse A place to sit, drink tea and read verse If you live in beautiful scenery, you really need a place to
Planting 2
5 January 2024
In the last post I described how difficult it is to grow some of the traditional plants of a Japanese garden in my garden – especially Acer Japonicum which dislikes
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