This is the story about how I built a Japanese Garden in my own backyard, with my own bare hands, and with no help from any contractors or experts. The video quality is a little crude at first but it gets better I promise. Bonus video at the end: the "mini tool temple" stop motion timelapse! Thanks for watching!
Plant list:
japanese hakone grass (wasn't doing good in the deep shade)
japanese maple
dwarf weeping blue spruce (doing OK in the shade but not great)
golden juniper shrub (not doing good, looking very thin, probably too much shade, but still alive)
creeping juniper (doing a lot better)
redbud tree
lilly of the valley
hosta
meadow rue (died, too much shade? not enough water?)
coral bells (one died, and the other is doing great)
ferns:
- japanese painted fern (died)
- ostrich fern
- frosty fern
- christmas fern (haven’t found any yet)
for the rock composition:
- boxwood (left untrimmed yet conical, or heavily trimmed into a bonsai)
- dwarf japanese maple? trimmed heavily every year
- golden dwarf hinoki cypress (doing great!)
- dward cypress cultivars (most of these died)
- moss (what I bought never turned green and I have sinse replaced with a lush field of clover)
- scottish moss (all died, was too shady and dry)
ground cover and vines:
- periwinkle
- english ivy
- wintercreeper
New this year:
- japanese pachysandra (in a container)