Trees for the Japanese garden

What is typical of a Japanese garden?

A typical Japanese garden recreates a natural landscape on a small scale. This can look very different: from the mountain landscape framed with pine trees to the garden pond with bridge and tea house, very different design options are conceivable. It is only characteristic that the individual components express certain aspects of Japanese culture and the planting is rather sparse, but precisely planned. Flowering plants are rarely found in Japanese gardens, but plants in numerous shades of green. Furthermore, the elements stone and water are important, whereby the latter can also be represented in the form of (white) pebbles.

Which plants are suitable for a Japanese garden

It is less important to plant original Japanese trees, but rather the choice of suitable plants. For example, you shouldn't plant a Japanese maple if you can't give it a suitable location in your garden. Therefore, when choosing the plants for the Japanese garden, always pay attention to the requirements in terms of location, soil and

Hardiness. You can also use native trees for the planting - for example a field maple instead of a Japanese maple. Conifers, which stay green in winter and are easy to shape, are typical of Japanese gardens.

trees and shrubs

For this reason, pine trees (e. B. Mountain or white pines, black pines) and other conifers such as yew and larch. You can also use deciduous trees, especially maple, Boxwood, Rhododendrons, azaleas as well as cherry trees and ornamental cherry trees as well as blood plums.

More plants

Ferns and grasses such as bamboo, Japanese forest grass, broad-leafsedge, Bearskin grass, ostrichfern, Rainbow fern etc. Moss is also indispensable, like that Star moss. Flowering plants are rather rare, but can be found precisely positioned: in addition to the almost obligatory cherries, they also belong Flower dogwood, Peonies and Irises in a Japanese garden.