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An online guidebook on how to make a Japanese (Zen)garden. All our (garden-)secrets revealed.
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Last year (2016) our Wisteria sinessis developed some zeven pods.
After all these years we have seen this some three or four times. The pods are very strong and have a beautiful velvety like skin.
Now, almost a year later the, the pods ar still strong. and you can open them like peas to harvest the seeds.
Using a little force the pods explode to show the seeds.
Wisteria seed pods have one to a lot of seeds in them. Harvest them and then you can use the seeds to grow wisteria from seed.
Wisterias are fast growing vines that will climb all over everything in their path if you allow it. You just need to train the wisteria to grow where you want it to grow.
However, from multiple sources, we know that the plants that come up fresh from seed are going to take 15 years before they flower or produce seed pods.
If you want to know how to grow wisteria from seed pods, you just harvest the pods and pull the seeds out of them as if you are shucking peas.
The seeds can be dried, and placed in moderate frost for a week or so, and then planted wherever you want them.
You can plant them in the spring and the vines will take off as soon as they come through the ground.
The new section may be useful but is something we can currently only dream of.
Slate roofing, in the American context, is a very traditional type of roofing. Found extensively in East Coastal and Southern towns of the country, slate roofs provide the house with a certain vintage look that many homeowners seem to savor for the sake of nostalgia. However, nostalgia is not the only reason why slates are still the in-thing when it comes to roofing. There are many other associated advantages, as well.
Slates are found in many countries, most notably Japan, Brazil, China, Australia and the United States. In the United States, slates are predominantly found in Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, parts of Pennsylvania, Georgia and North & South Carolina. In Canada, Newfoundland is a prominent slate producing state.
In Europe the picture is very different. Whereas in many countries Slate roofing is well known, in the Netherlands it is almost non existing. Simply because we do not have rocks. Well, close to. Slates have to be imported.
Thanks to Richard Reagin, Research Coordinator with the National Construction Industry Council (NCIC), U.S.A.
In The front garden compartment, two trees needed treatment being the Larix (Europeaus) decidua and the Prunus lusitanica, perhaps more a shrub than a tree.
This is to show how to maintain the beautiful mature Larix (Europeaus) decidua tree became a burden.
In September 2015 we started to execute this plan in the left side garden compartment. Later in September we continued in the main garden compartment, with the Acer palmatum "Bloodgood" and the Acer platanoides "Royal Red". This was a quick win in that it was far more easier to remove the trees then to prune them.
The Acer pseudoplatanus "Brilliantissimuni" ( the orange-yellow one in between on this photo) was removed some years ago because of its leafs color that was too dominant.
Note that this was a photo of some years ago. As you can see the trees where over 6 meter (20 feet) high.
This photo shows the coloring in October 2009. It shows also the size of the crown after six year and that was the main reason to eliminate these trees. We will miss the bird activities like the woodpeckers. I will discuss this in a separate Blog-message.
So far we have determinant three different woodpecker species. As you can see, in summer and in winter.
Below a photo of Midoritsumi or ‘green picking’, in 2012.
The following photo's are from September 2015, after this massive pruning and thinning exercise, where also many branches have been removed.
The Pinus densiflora is definitely one of our prides. This tree also provides a sort of balance against the karikomi and hako-zukuri objects in the main-garden section.
To remove the Pinus densiflora is almost unthinkable.
That is why we decided to make it easier and less cumbersome to maintain.
One should note that every bud left un-pruned is likely to grow 50 cm (2 feet) or more in one season.
It took over two full containers to remove the branches and needles.
We now have some very nice beautiful, mature trees in our Zen-garden, both evergreens as well as deciduous. However, there is a pragmatical problem. The problem is my health and condition as the result described in my post: A forced recess: Infective or bacterial Endocarditis. Now, about one and a half year later, the conclusion is that we will not be able to maintain the garden as it is today. Not only do I still need a hart-valve, also the brain-damage has some nasty effects. My vision and balance are not what it used to be and also my reaction speed is less.
Of course I can contract a horticulturist. Not only will there be very few around with the required skills, it will also be very expensive, in particular related to the higher trees. This is reason that we desired a plan to be able to keep the Zen-garden. It is the beginning of this what that we describe here. I hope to be able to report you of the progress on this blog. Part of this is experimental, in that we take a substantial risk with the outcome. In the worst case a tree will eventually need to removed of the outcome is not acceptable. How sad, but some trees will be removed by definition.
Also you have to be forgiving with regard to my writing because the cerebral infarction and/or brain haemorrhage left me with a substantial hole in my brain in the area responsible for speech, reading, write and speech-recognition.
This is the plants plan that shows the trees and shrub that will be removed or drastically be shortens, pruned or clipped. In principle trees will be shortened to 150 cm to maximum 175 cm ( i.e. 5 to 6 feet,) so that I will be able to maintain them with my both feed on the solid ground.
This is the original garden-plan Plants and planting (Shokobutsu) in Tsubo-en. On this page you also see a "Statement of caution" related to keep the gravel clean, one of the other reasons for this maintenance exorcise.
In September we started with the left side garden compartment that now has finished, for the time being.
This is what was left from the beautiful and mature Nothofagus antarctica. I have a good feeling that this will recover in the next year.
This is how it looked last year.
Also beautiful and mature is our Cryptomeria Japonica "elegans".
As you can see, after my recovery of my Endocarditis and the cerebral infarction and/or brain haemorrhage, it may not be a good idea to do this type of garden maintenance.
The next photo shows how it showed in autumn 2013.
Below, what was left... before the twin-trunk got the finale height.
Although not specifically Zen, or Japanese, the herb-garden Buxus sempervirens hedges was one of our topiary prides. R.I.P.
Below you see the end resold.
Due to the size of this beautiful Buxus sempervirens hedges, little space was left for the actual herbs. Not only that, but it takes a whole day to do the pruning and cleaning, which is just to much.
As you can see, the Buxus hedges are not eliminated as such, only minimized. If this means that, in one or two years, they still look good, or good again, that is just great. If this means that they require yet too maintenance, the hedges will removed then.
This is the status on October 2015. I will report you of the progress, both, on the measurements to reduce maintenance as on how it
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In my previous post,' Recovery of our solitary Wisteria-sinensis', I wrote about the blooming of the Wisteria-sinensis. Now, after almost three months, we have a second, relative abundant blooming, and this time with the leafs developed. Although blooming is seen during the whole summer, we have never seen so many flowers at the same [...]
This frost-damage was particularly sad with regard to our garden pride, the solitary Wisteria-sinensis (see: Resurrection of our Wisteria sinensis). In 2015 we had a very late spring. Temperatures have not been very low, with average rainfall and average sunshine. Although the shape of the Wisteria sinensis is no longer solitary as it [...]
Due to my health status during 2014 (see: A forced recess: Infective or bacterial Endocarditis) for the first time ever, my wife (on here own initiative) had done Midoritsumi, the ‘green picking’ of our Pinus- densiflora. This must have been a hell of a job, because it was done with a [...]
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