Japanese Garden: by - Ganpati Prasad Gupta B. Planning, Sem-V
Japanese Garden: by - Ganpati Prasad Gupta B. Planning, Sem-V
Japanese Garden: by - Ganpati Prasad Gupta B. Planning, Sem-V
Saiho-ji temple (Moss Garden) Kairakuen (Landscape Garden) Korakuen (Stroll Garden)
VEGETATION OF MUGHAL GARDENS
◦ Japanese gardening is based on capturing the beauty of nature.
◦ In nature, evergreen trees grow under deciduous trees. Evergreen trees grows gradually. Eventually,
forests become evergreen forests. This means deciduous trees finish the life under evergreen trees.
This is the nature forest transition in Japan.
◦ Of course, in transition, some evergreen trees become taller than deciduous. In the garden, some
evergreen trees may taller than deciduous trees.
◦ In Japanese gardens, green is more important than flower. Some of them are evergreen, soume of them are
deciduous. In autumn, deciduous trees change their leave color. That is absolutely beautiful.
• Various kind of maples are planted in Japanese garden. They are usually deciduous and autumn foliage is magnificent.
• Pine trees are striking characteristic in Japanese garden.
• Japanese Zelkova is beautiful in spring and autumn.
◦ Some flower trees are planted. Basicaly, they are showy naturally, some cultivars or double-flower are ocassionaly
planted though.
◦ Some distinctive or showy shrubs are planted.
◦ There are many species mosses in Japan. Japan is a humid country and ideal envoirment for mosses. In gardens,
mosses are commonly planted instead of grasses. Even though gardeners don't plant mosses, they grow in native.
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