The Garden of Harmony unites the two landscapes. Japan’s mountain regions are represented by stones and rock outcrops, interplanted with shrubs. The plants include neatly clipped low-lying hedges of ...

Repotting older shrubs and trees can help to revitalize your container displays for the coming year. 'Fertilizing Japanese maples is generally only necessary for specimens grown in pots,' Terry ...

Cloud pruning is a method you often see in English topiary, but one that rings true to Japanese gardens the most. Niwaki is often pruned this way, but so too are lower-lying shrubs – dwarf ...

J. conferta ‘Blue Pacific’ – Also called Blue Pacific Shore, this slow-growing, heat-tolerant juniper has handsome blue-green ...