Happy New Year From ALL Of Us At Making A Japanese Garden Dot Com

Posted on January 3, 2013 by making a japanese garden

Thank you for visiting our website that is all about giving you useful information and tips for making a Japanese garden. There is a lot of very informative and helpful information on this website that will help turn your small or large space at home whether indoors or outdoors into a space with a touch of Japan.

We wish all our readers a very Happy New Year and a HEALTHY and inspiring 2013!

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Posted on October 3, 2012 by making a japanese garden

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Kew Gardens In London – Video Of The Japanese Garden Area

Posted on August 28, 2012 by making a japanese garden

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When making a Japanese garden there is perhaps no better way to formulate the design ideas that you may have in your imagination than actually looking at exsisting Japanese gardens.

I recently visited the garden and had a great time. From The Imperial Gateway to a beautiful Karensui area to stunning rock placement and topiary it is all here on this short video. Steven Speilberg I am not but I hope that you take a look and enjoy it!

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Posted on August 23, 2012 by making a japanese garden

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Thanks for visiting makingajapanesegarden.com .

Following on from yesterdays post – our 2 E books are available for the next 5 DAYS ONLY on AMAZON KINDLE. Here are the details and we hope you enjoy them and they help with your plans to make a Japanese garden.

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Japanese Gardens – The Use Of Stones And Rocks FREE Download on Amazon Kindle

Posted on August 22, 2012 by making a japanese garden

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Thanks for stopping by our website – packed with information on making a Japanese garden.

One of the most instantly recognisable things about Japanese gardens are the very effective and symbolic use of Stones and Rocks. Author Russ Chard has written on the subject of Japanese gardens for many years and his AMAZON Kindle articles on the subject are avilable for FREE download for the next 4 days.

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Tomorrow his E books on Japanese Gardens – Revealed and Explained ( Over 100 pages long) will be available for free as will his latest and newest publication called Japanese Zen Gardens – both FREE download links on Amazon will be posted on this website, so please come back! Enjoy.

Japanese Zen Gardens – Amazon Kindle Version

Posted on August 14, 2012 by making a japanese garden

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Hi ,

Thanks for stopping by my website – I recently designed and built my own Zen garden ( a small space one I in my rear garden.

Here is a shot of my simplistic Zen garden – all but finished!

I have just finished writing a magazine for iPad and iPhone that will be published in 3 weeks time . BUT if you have a Kindle from Amazon I have uploaded the edition today. It is ALL about Zen gardens. What are they?, What is there history? What ingredients? Rocks, Stones, Sand, Gravel, Plants and Shrubs. There are some great images and EVERYTHING you would want to know if you have ever wondered ‘WHAT IS A ZEN GARDEN?’. I also take readers through the process of building a Zen garden – design tips, how it is constructed, what to use, where to pace your garden and much more! It has been a labour of love for me and it is available now JUST CLICK HERE and below is the cover:

Japanese And Zen Gardens Book

CLICK HERE for more information and I have kept the cost very low!

PS there is also a Chapter on COURTYARD GARDENS a sort of home interior Zen garden – they are beautiful!

Making A Japanese Zen Garden – update

Posted on August 4, 2012 by making a japanese garden

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Thanks for visiting my website, I have just returned from a very pleasant break in Sweden. I now have the 4th video in a five video series that takes you step by step through making a small space Japanese Zen garden.

It is fairly easy to do and takes very little time – once you have planned it you could build it withing 2 or 3 days but a lot of folks like to take their time and that is what I did!

You can watch VIDEO 4 by CLICKING HERE

I have put all four video’s for Making A Japanese Zen garden on my Youtube channel and you can see them all by CLICKING HERE. Each video is hopefully easy to follow and they range between 2 to 3 minutes for each one.

This is a shot I took earlier today that shows it 75% done, today I will be making an ‘Island’ of grass around the single stone.

A small space Zen garden that I have 75% completed at my home

I will post some more photos very soon and hope you check out the video’s! The reason the sand is not yet raked is because we have once again had so much rain that it is a solid mass and very wet!

Enjoy your day.

Russ

Making A Japanese Zen Garden – Video’s

Posted on July 19, 2012 by making a japanese garden

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Thanks for visiting my website, the weather held and I have added two more videos to my Youtube channel taking you through more preparation work and the ‘edging process’ and setting in concrete.

There will be more videos to come and these will be filmed over the next few days and I hope you get a sense of the simplicity of a Zen garden and that you DO NOT have to have a big space to design and build one.Did you know over 150,000 people around the world per month search on Google the term ‘What is a Zen garden?’…hopefully this website and these videos can help them with some answers.

I have set up a Youtube playlist for you, just CLICK HERE and they will play one after the other.

STOP PRESS: I week to go to London 2012 and The Olympic games and the weather is set for a significant improvement whcih is great and it means the Zen garden project will race ahead so please do come back and watch the new information I will be putting on this website.

Couple of Bits….

Posted on July 17, 2012 by making a japanese garden

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ZEN GARDEN PROJECT: Its dry and the edging starts and hopefully finishes today! Video on how we are doing it to follow.

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Making A Japanese Zen Garden UPDATE

Posted on July 15, 2012 by making a japanese garden

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Good growth of Moss on one of the side rocks.

So, the rain has stopped for one day and it is still too wet to concrete in the edging and we are stuck! But I took my camera out today to show you some different angles of the are and where exactly the Zen garden that I am building is going to sit in my garden.

You will see that the space is dug out ready for the edges to be completely straightened , then we will put the Granite blocks in place to edge the entire garden.

A line of rocks will sit above the left hand edge as you can see below and the wet weather and lack of sunlight ( no good!!) has seen a nice moss formation – something i like in Japanese Zen stlye gardens.

As you look face on at the space you will notice it is an up-slope, this I have cleared of weeds and debris and will put fresh soil onto it when the Zen garden is built. We are leaving the green bushes around the Zen garden area.

The Buddha and small Acer are in situ and all I need to add here is my stone basin, which I don’t want covered in too much moss! I will put some photo’s online in due course.

On the slight up-slope site the Buddha statue , Acer and shaped bush on the right as you look at it.

I hope you are getting a feel of how small or large you can make a Zen garden and my design is not too big but I think fits in perfectly with the surrounding area. It is a calm area – nice and quiet.

When we start the edging I will be making a video to explain how to simply do this and keep things straight plus demonstrating how to lay the weed mat on the base of the space, in order that you don’t get any unwelcome growth! Any questions please feel free to ask, post or email me!

A view of the group of side rocks – with moss. The stone edging will be infront of them in a staright line.

My Zen garden space – as a front on view- a slope is at the rear.