The Japanese garden society welcomes anyone who loves Japanese gardens and wants to share their enthusiasm and knowledge with like minded others.
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Receive four splendidly illustrated issues of our journal, “Shakkei” each year
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Latest edition: Winter 2024 - 2025
Articles in this edition include:
Signs of the Season: Gardeners and the New Year in Kyoto
Japanese Wall Construction: Part Two
Seeking all Japanese-style Gardens in the UK & Ireland
Postcard from… Chile
Momiji-gari in Kyoto – a photo essay
Upcoming Japanese Garden Society Events
JGS Blog posts
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
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