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

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.

To support our charity

New for our members:

Shakkei journal front cover showing image of Murin-in stroll Japanese garden

Latest edition: Autumn 2024

Articles in this edition include:

Intrinsic Value as a Management

Principle for Japanese Gardens: The Case of Murin-an

Japanese Wall Construction: Part One

Learnings from Kyoto – a workshop training  experience

Restoring the Japanese garden at Kingston Lacy

Upcoming Japanese Garden Society Events

JGS Blog posts

A view showing beautiful moorland from the shelter

A Japanese shelter

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

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Planting 2

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

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Planting 2022

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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