Hey GPODers! Today we’re back in the flower-filled garden of Heidi Weirether. We first saw her garden a little earlier on in the summer (you check check out that post here: Heidi’s Colorful Garden in Fairfield County) and it’s incredible to see how much has changed in a month’s time! As with much of the northeast this year, Heidi is experiencing incredible hydrangea blooms—but that is just the tip of the floral iceberg in her sensational garden:
The Small World of a Japanese-Style Courtyard Garden
12.07.2024 - 22:22 / finegardening.com / GPOD Contributor
Hi GPODers! Today we’ve got an incredible garden story from a frequent GPOD contributor that is a demonstration of how magically small our big world can be. Bas Suharto has previously shown off gardens he has designed and built (check out some of those submissions: Building a Garden With Bas and Building a Japanese-Inspired Garden) as well as his own incredible home gardens (Parterre Garden in Ottawa and A Japanese-Style Garden in Ottawa). But the garden in this most recent submission caught Bas’ eye long before he was asked to lend a helping hand the space.
I passed by this garden with an interesting design on the fence 3 years ago, on the way to weekend cycling in Vanier, Ontario, Canada (zone 5b). I stopped just to look from the side street, where I could see a little bit into the square openings of the lattice wood of the fence.
Here is the fence from the side street. Along the fence are some newly planted hostas, Karl Foerster grass (Calamagrostis × acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’, Zones 4–10),and some fall sedums.
Two years ago, I received an e-mail, she was a good friend of one of my close friends. She asked if I would help her to do some garden work, and she was the owner of the courtyard garden! Finally, I got to see what was behind that nice fence.
Photo of the garden before Bas got to work, sent from the owner.
We first discussed the overgrown plants/shrubs in this “Japanese style” courtyard garden. I started pruning on the overgrown cedar to make it look like ‘clouds’, as often seen in Japanese gardens.
To contrast the dark green clouds of the cedar and the ground, I cut and planted branch trimmings of the euonymus which grew under the cedar. I find euonymus is easy to grow from cuttings, and plug them right
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