Native niwaki
Though I've spent a fair amount of time in Japan in the last few years, I sadly didn't manage to meet any of the country's many highly skilled gardeners. 'Niwaki' by Jake Hobson (Timber Press) is thus a godsend for the gradual Japanification that is happening in the garden as much as in the kitchen here.
We have plans to place a Japanese Tea House in our meadow, and to form a bridge between it and the native plants all around I decided to prune some of the very characterful ancient hawthorn nearby in the 'Niwaki' style. Of course I forgot to take the 'Before' picture, but here is the 'After'. The process basically means pruning, tying down and staking trees to 'fake' a kind of premature aging, concentrating on encouraging horizontal growth, 'pads' of foliage, and opening up views into the bark and limbs of the specimen. With already ancient trees like this one, the process is a little easier and faster than it might be with, say, a new bonsai - which is more or less the same process but smaller.
No idea how these self-sown trees will take to this treatment, so watch this space for a 2008 report.
posted by Karen Guthrie at 10:54 AM
3 Comments:
Hi Karen...
...so this is what happens at Lawson Park! We happened upon your garden about a month ago,we (and our tot in carrier), were trying to find Grizdale and you kindly put us on the right path. I hope to have a herb garden one day, one that is big enough to open to the public, a few years yet, i've even started a blog, so I shall be following your blog with interest. Lawson Park Garden is shaping up nicely, these things(gardens)do rather take their time dont they! Still, they are well worth it!
Mary
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