If you live in scenery you really need a place to admire it. It is the very spirit of Sakkei- borrowed scenery. I want […]
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Planting Part 2
In the last post I described how difficult it is to grow some of the traditional plants of a Japanese garden in my garden – […]
Planting 2022 Part 1
I start to plant a gardenThe summer of 2022 was not the best of times for planting. In June the moor was beleaguered by a […]
The path up the mountain
Sheesu’s Bayou landscape is an inspiration. To be true to the location walls should be drystone. The Yorkshire Dales National Park alone has 8000Km of […]
Mitate Mono 2
As wells looking through Architectural antiques yards for decorative objects I have also been on the search for materials for hard landscape- for walls, stepping […]
Space and Illusion
If I were to have one book about Japanese Gardens it would be the first one I bought almost 40 years ago. “Space and Illusion”by […]
Carve the landscape
There is a vision. There is a narrative. The vision is of a journey. You climb a mountain to meet the hermit, who reads poetry, […]
Mitate-mono : Architectural salvage 1
In this diary I will return again and again to what we refer to in the West as aesthetics. Just as in Japanese it is […]