A zen guide to your own Japanese garden

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What ornaments, elements and styles defines a Japanese garden? What should you incorporate to create you own piece of heaven? Let this article guide you.

Thinking of creating your own zen garden? 

One of the advantage of this type of arrangement is It's easy to maintain then other type variety. The trick is to carefully plan what you want and avoid expensive mistakes.

If you're adventurous you can straightaway create your zen garden in your backyard..But maybe you want to experience it first?

Remember this is a place for you to sit and enjoy the zen of a simple but well thought out arrangement. Harmony and balance in this case a delicate matter.

The beauty is in its simplicity, that they can afford to create these fancy enjoyable miniature kits.Try these mini japanese zen garden that will help you visualize your dream garden and also assist in creating a layout plan for your zen garden.

Arrange, scrape the gravel. Draw and form the patterns. Do it until you get it right.
Then only get the people to build it for you or do it on your own.

At least while waiting for the bigger version of your landscape, you can directly enjoy smaller waves of inner peace in your office or living room with this nifty little kit.

A showcase of japanese Zen garden 

With bamboo pole railing, gravel, moss and a well placed feature rock, you can have a low maintenance garden in front of your house.

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Books with a lot pictures to help you visualize your japanese garden better 

or simply because you just love to admire japanese gardens

The Art of the Japanese Garden

This is a very good book if you're planning to create a zen garden at it has a page where it shows what type of pattern to apply on the sand gravel.Also it explains the rock position and what type of rock to use plus various japanese ornaments.The pictures are large and breathtaking.

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Styles and Motifs Japanese Gardens

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Zen Gardening

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The New Zen Garden: Designing Quiet Spaces

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Shishi Odoshi 

Traditionally farmers use shishi odoshi or deer scarer is to scare of the deers with the thumping sound. The sound of the hollow bamboo knocking against the river rocks rhythmically is pleasant and contributes to the tranquility aura of your surroundings.

Shishi Odoshi video 

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Can't find one in your place? Create your own 

Here are some step by step project books that will help you create your own SHISHI ODOSHI

Pagoda 

One of the easiest way to give your garden a japanese garden feel is to place one or two carefully picked pieces such as the pagoda or a lion dog as a display feature.
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Online guide on how to build your own water thumper shishi odoshi 

how to make a SHISHI ODOSHI guide
A very short guide on how to make your own shishi odoshi.
how Shishi Odoshi works
a short movieclip to show how shishi odoshi works.
pictures of shishi odoshi
some variation of the bamboo foutain

Breathtaking and tranquil showcase of the Japanese garden and landscape 

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Kois and the koi ponds in japan 

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Japanese Koi fish swimming in the pond at Tokugawa Koen, Nagoya.

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This one features the koi pond the the garden 

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Building a koi pond 


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zen thoughts 

experts give me advice if i mistakenly put mis infos.. fellow garden lovers .. lemme know who you are :D

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