A
- A forced recess: Infective or bacterial Endocarditis
- A new type of modern karesansui garden
- Abies procera "Glauca" (Noble Fir) tidy-up
- Abundant bloom of our Wisteria sinensis
- Ants are in our pest top five
- Armeria Maritima flowering, caution !
- Armeria Maritima flowering, continued
- Autumn colors and fallen leafs everywhere
B
- Bamboo pruning, Pleioblastus pygmaeus
- Bamboo runner alert
- Bamboo shoots in unexpected places
- Birdlife and near-dead
- Birdlife in the garden
- Birds bathing and drinking during winter
- Bonsai R.I.P.
- Book review: Niwaki by Jake Hobson
- Boxwood psyllid or Cacopsylla buxi
- Buxus disease, Box Blight? Cylindrocladium Buxicola, continued
- Buxus disease, Box Blight? Problem with box topiary
C
- Chamaecyparis Lawsonia trimming
- Coot and youngsters
- Cottony maple scale on our Acer Palmatum
- Cryptomeria Japonica "elegans", fukinaoshi-pruning
E
- Early start with insecticide
F
- Fertilizing the garden
- Fertilizing the garden, continued
- Front-garden gravel-area restoration
- Frost damage 2011/2012, final damage report
- Frost damage, to survive or to die ?
- Fuji Musumè ( 藤娘 ) or “Wisteria Maiden”
G
- Groundcover maintenance
- Groundcover maintenance and mosses unwanted
H
- Hako-zukuri style Prunus lusitanica "tree"
- Hako-zukuri style Prunus lusitanica “tree” tuning
- Herb garden box-hedge trimming
- Heron gluttony ?
- Hidden surface-edges
- How to deal with Ginshanada soil settlement
I
- Insecticide, second or third annual overall treatment
- Iris "White Knight" (Tall Bearded Iris) in bloom
J
- Japanese Garden Dictionary
K
- Karikomi style Prunus lusitanica, pruning for shape and growth
L
- Larix (Europeaus) decidua, fukinaoshi-pruning
- Late winter or no winter 2011/2012
M
- Maintaining 'the five Islands of immortality' gravel 'sea'
- Maintaining the pathway edges
- Midoritsumi or 'green picking' Pinus densiflora
- Midoritsumi or ‘green picking’ the pine-trees
- Midoritsumi or ‘green picking’ the pine-trees: Continued
- Midoritsumi, ‘green picking’ and Momiage 'thinning', combined
- Miscellaneous tidy up garden activities
- Momiage, removing dead needles from pine
- Most beautiful spot in province of Flevoland nomination
N
- Nasty insects in buxus (box)
- Nightingale floor, Uguisubari ( 鴬張り )
- Niwaki-trees annual pruning and trimming for shape and size
- Nothofagus antarctica, pruning for shape
O
- O-karikomi style Prunus lusitanica, pruning for shape
- Our Ulmus parvifolia (Elm-tree) got Dutch elm disease
- Overall measurements to reduce maintenance, continued 2
- Overall measurements to reduce maintenance, continued 3
P
- Partial buxus clipping for way through
- Pike attack (Esox lucius, carnivorous fish)
- Pilgrimage: Ofuda (御札 charm, talisman), a shrine or a temple seal
- Powdery Mildew on our Euonymus Japonicus
- Pruning shears with broken spring: How to repair ?
R
- Raking the Ginshanada, flat and level
- Razor-sharp thyme edges
- Recovery of our solitary Wisteria-sinensis
- Reedy waterside on the waterfront
- Removing reed from the waterway bank
- Repairing the bamboo fence (take gaki)
- Replenishing the Turtle-island lakes, bird bath
- Resurrection of our Wisteria sinensis
- Rule 0: Let no plant grow where you did not plant it
S
- Sagina subulata as moss substitute
- Scrubbing the veranda deck to remove alga and moss
- Second Abundant bloom of our Wisteria sinensis
- Section on Slate Roofing added
- Shumi-sen or Mount Sumeru, in historical perspective
- Sprinkler-system maintenance, underground sprinklers
- Swans and cygnets
T
- The first snow this winter
- The Ginshanada and Island edges, a coastline
- The plague named Blackbirds
- Tidy-up the Ginshanada ocean or gravel-sea
- Time for irrigation, sunny, hot and dry
- Timing for box-topiary trimming
- Topiary hedges, design and refine by experience
- Tracks in the snow
- Traditional Samurai gardens of the Edo era
- Trimming 'the five Islands of immortality' topiary box
- Trimming the Juniperus media topiary shrubs
- Trimming the Taxus baccata (yew) hedgerow
- Trimming the Thuja occidentalis hedgerow
- Trimming the topiary O-karikomi (buxus) sculpture
- Truffles in Tsubo-en (Hymenogaster-olivoceus)
- Tsukiyama, the edges in the front-garden
- Tsukiyama, the edges in the main-garden
- Tuning the hako-zukuri part of our main o-karikomi box topiary
U
- Ulmus parvifolia, Elm-tree pollarding and thinning
- Ulmus parvifolia, Elm-tree prunning
- Undesired mosses
W
- Website "diary" work in progress
- Weeds, leafs and more
- What tools to use to trim Buxus topiary shrubs?
- Wild ducks swimming in our "sea"
- Winter in Tsubo-en, an impression
- Winter season-impression: Weather-Gods garden-art
- Wisteria sinensis in bloom
- Wisteria sinensis sprouts and runners
- Wisteria sinensis sprouts need continued attention
- Wisteria sinensis winter pruning
- Wisteria sinessis seed pods
Y
- Your own Japanese garden, part one
- Your own Japanese garden, part two
Z
- Zhong Kui 钟馗, SHŌKI 鍾馗, the demon queller
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- "Less is more"? Overall measurements to reduce maintenance
Я
- Японский Сад «Цубо-Ен», Japanese garden "Tsubo-en" in Ukraine magazine
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