Lars Grimm
Chumono
Hello All,
I recently moved into a new house and have a complete blank slate with which to design a new bonsai garden to grow and display my trees. This will serve as the progression thread where I share my ideas and the evolution of the garden. As always, advice is greatly appreciated.
A few basics/goals:
I recently moved into a new house and have a complete blank slate with which to design a new bonsai garden to grow and display my trees. This will serve as the progression thread where I share my ideas and the evolution of the garden. As always, advice is greatly appreciated.
A few basics/goals:
- I live in central North Carolina in zone 7. We get up into the 90s with high humidity in the summer and usually get a few nights in the teens during the winter, but the growing season is quite long. I don't currently have plans for a formal winter storage area as I rely on my shed for smaller trees and mulching in larger trees on the ground.
- My collection is 100% deciduous and doesn't plan to change.
- The size of my collection is currently around 40 trees of various sizes. My goal is to keep the size stable and to improve the quality of trees rather than the quantity. I don't plan to incorporate any large grow beds.
- At my old house I had lots of problems with fungus due to heavy Spring rains so I want to ensure adequate spacing and good air movement.
- I will install an automatic drip irrigation system.
- The display area is visible from the house and backyard so it needs to look nice and not just like a work area.
- My aesthetic is more American/European garden design and not japanese.
- For overall garden aesthetic and beauty, you can't beat @MACH5 garden. I particularly enjoy the combination of design and grow area in a space limited suburban setting. I also like the incorporation of landscape plants/features into the design, like the water lily and the larger stones.
- Although designed for a larger scale nursery, I have enjoyed following Bjorn's thought process in designing his garden at Eisei-en. I like the way he has incorporated the whiskey barrels to give a little more local feeling to his otherwise Japanese inspired garden.