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    A Beginner's Guide to Rock Gardens
    A Beginner's Guide to Rock Gardens
    A Beginner's Guide to Rock Gardens
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    A Beginner's Guide to Rock Gardens

    By Dueep J. Singh

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    Table of Contents

    A Beginner’s Guide to Rock Gardens
    Introduction
    Wrong Way Of Placing Rocks
    The Right Way to Place Rock Stones
    Good Rock Work-
    Flat Ground
    Wall
    Stones on Slopes
    Choosing the Best Soil
    Building Your Rock Garden
    Planting Your Rock Plants
    Maintenance
    Conifers
    Bulbs
    List of Rock Plants, depending on the Particular Conditions and Places
    Rock Plants For Walls
    Crazy paving plants –
    Conclusion
    Author Bio
    Publisher

    Introduction

    Rock gardens have been part of landscaping and gardening lore for millenniums. In the East Japanese rock gardens or Zen gardens have been places where people could meditate in serene and harmonious surroundings.

    Why are more people designing their own gardens incorporating at least one rock garden in the design? Even if the rock garden is quite small, it is going to add a touch of distinction to the landscaping of your garden.

    In Japan, rock gardens were normally built as dry landscape gardens, where a number of landscapes were made up of natural compositions made from natural products incorporated into a landscape. These natural items included bushes, trees, Moss, water, rocks and sand. One believes that the concept of rock gardening originated in China, especially when the ancient religion of Shintoism spoke about places of harmony where one could commune with nature and the spirit in serenity. These were normally made in monasteries, where they could be seen from one focal point, like say the porch of the head priest of the monastery.

    These dry Landscape gardens which you call a Zen garden in Japan were built to be seen from one viewpoint, with the walling closed around it in ancient times. Nowadays they stretch on for miles incorporating all the natural features available and present in the area to make up harmonious surroundings.

    Japanese Zen gardens go back to 784 BC. Chinese gardens have been around for even longer. The incorporation of gravel and white sand in a Zen or rock garden was an important feature. These were the symbol of distance, emptiness, purity, white space and water. All these symbols were supposed to aid in meditation. White sand and gravel used harmoniously together were also used around temples, shrines and palaces.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMendon Cottage Books
    Release dateJan 28, 2015
    ISBN9781310574139
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      A Beginner's Guide to Rock Gardens - Dueep J. Singh

      A Beginner’s Guide to Rock Gardens

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