Step 6 - After putting the cement paving around the perimeter, I started to create the adjacent Japanese style garden. I read many books on this style of garden. It needs to be kept up with lower, mossy areas, and higher shrubs and trees; and, a balance of rocks (hard) and plants (soft) or yin/yang principle. This is very difficult for Westerners who are not familiar with the aesthetics of a Japanese garden. My Japanese area contains a dry stream where the lowest point of the water garden overflows, if it is necessary, in Winter. The corner where it overflows is just past the Lebanon Cedar that I am training to grow over the pond, but not over the paths. The lantern sits in the dry stream and supposedly lights the way into the small seating area. I hope to extend this area under the deck. I hope this would create a spot of quiet and peace, but the neighbors kids are learning to play the drums at the moment They are just the other side of a cedar hedge that extends above the deck and gives the allusion of privacy. My notes say I have spent 55 hours on the project so far. (not including research and searching out the right plants, etc.) Click on the 3rd part of the water garden (Japanese garden) for more on this very interesting and time consuming part of the water garden.

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