A visit to an iconic garden
Cherry Ong , friend of the GPOD , has enjoyedtraveling to wonderful garden latelyand sharing incredible picture with us , so we ’re starting today what is going to be a semi - regular Friday characteristic , “ Where ’s Cherry , ” featuring hervisits to inspiring gardens .
Today she ’s have us toButchart Gardensin Brentwood Bay , British Columbia — more specifically , theJapanese garden .
This stunning view of the garden feature a immense mass of pinkAstilbeglabberimavar.saxatilis(Zones 6–8 ) , one of the shortest of the astilbes , but surely not a slacker when it comes to bloom .
The airy clouds ofpinkastilbe flowers up nigh
A traditional stone lantern has collected a carpet ofmoss .
An unusual slice offauxbois(a proficiency of mime the texture of wood in concrete ) sculpture in the garden . Cherry discovered that thefoux boisat Butchart is the work of an creative person named Francois Scotti ( more info on him here ) .
No stately Japanese garden is consummate without raked gravel , which is both beautiful and a puppet for Zen meditation .
The trunk of an oldJapanese maple(Acerpalmatum , Zones 5–9 ) has become an unbelievable musical composition of living sculpture .
A cascade of Japanese maplefoliagecreates the effect of a waterfall into the puddle .
Stepping - stonesacross water are traditional in Japanese garden , as they force you to slow down , tread cautiously , and sharpen on the space you are moving through .
Foliage in a thousand shades of dark-green
cautiously regulate shrub in the swarm - pruning style line of merchandise this nerve pathway . Pruningis gamey art in Japanese gardens , with master carefully form each branch to aesthetic perfection , much like the art ofbonsaibut on a larger scale .
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