Build your own Zen garden on the balcony - tips & tricks
A large, flat bowl is enough to conjure up a Zen garden for the balcony. With the help of stainless steel profiles, you can separate gravel and sand, following the example of the motif bands from the memento grave design. Add some larger stones in odd numbers without creating a geometric arrangement. Only then do you shape the wavy lines with a kare-san-sui rake.
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It is important to note a location protected from wind and rain so that your meditative lines are not drowned in water or blown away by the wind. To incorporate the element of moss into the Zen garden, place in the bowl or in one separate, shallow plant containers and plant a small mound of bog soil fresh moss out of the woods.
Permitted plants set green accents
If the space on the balcony allows, you can add decorative accents with Asian trees and shrubs. The following species and varieties authentically enhance the Zen garden:
- Bonsai species such as Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata), Japanese clove cherry (Prunus serrulata) or Boxwood (Buxus)
- Asian ornamental grasses, such as butcher's bamboo bamboo (Shibataea kumasaca) or Chinese reed (Miscanthus sinensis)
- Far Eastern ornamental shrubs as container plants, such as rhododendrons or azaleas (Rhododendron obtusum)
If you don't want to do without summer blooms in your Zen garden, Asian peonies (Paeonia lactiflora), the spring blooming one, are the ideal choice Spice shrub (Calycanthus floridus) and the dainty single-layer primrose (Primula japonica 'Miller's Crimson') in white or sand-colored tubs are a good choice Choice. For the balcony on the north side, shadow bells (Pieris japonica), hostas (hosta) and forest anemones (anemone sylvestris) into focus.
Tips
Did you get the concept of Zen garden so convinced that you want to transfer it to your front yard as well? Then please remember to do one first Weed control(€ 13.47 at Amazon *) to spread gravel and sand on it. Where weeds keep sprouting, there can be no question of relaxing meditation.
