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Tsubo-en Zen-garden diary

An online guidebook on how to make a Japanese (Zen)garden. All our (garden-)secrets revealed.

Welcome to the Tsubo-en diary. Thanks for stopping by and reading. If you have any questions feel free to email us or post in the comment sections of one of the posts you'll find here.
Marijke & Piet.

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- Pruning deciduous (13)
- Pruning evergreens (30)
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- Season impression (11)
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“Less is more”? Overall measurements to reduce maintenance

"yohaku no bi": "the beauty of empty space", also ma or aki. [2 (p118) ]. For the Western, non-Zen viewer, the art of yohaku is perhaps best described in terms of Mies van der Rohe's "less is more". However I am not sure if this is what was meant with the almost destruction of the [...]

October 1st, 2015 | Tags: Buxus sempervirens, Cryptomeria Japonica "elegans", deciduous trees, evergreen trees, hedges, Nothofagus antarctica, Topiary | Category: Design, Miscellaneous activities, Pruning deciduous, Pruning evergreens, Visible objects | 2 comments

Niwaki-trees annual pruning and trimming for shape and size

Most of the solitary trees need one major annual treatment of pruning and trimming for shape and size. After 12 years in our garden, most trees ar some 15 to 17 years of age and have now reached the right size and often the right shape. It is in particular the shape that can […]

July 10th, 2011 | Tags: Clipping, Larix decidua, Niwaki, Nothofagus antarctica, Pinus leucodermis, Pruning, Trees, Trimming, Ulmus parvifolia | Category: Garden activities, Pruning deciduous, Pruning evergreens | Comments are closed

Nothofagus antarctica, pruning for shape

This is how the Nothofagus antarctica, Antarctic Beech, looked prior to pruning back in 2008. In the years prior to 2008 we have thinned it consistently every year, to be less compact and open than it would naturally grow. We prune the Nothofagus antarctica (genus southern beeches) in the left side garden compartment, for […]