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Japanese Garden
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Diary of an amateur gardener growing various vegetables, fruits and flowers in his garden in Japan.
- Author: Gururaj Rao
- Listed in: Gardening
- Tags: flowers amateur vegetables patch gardener square foot
Recent Posts
Rose garden and orange orchard in the Izu peninsula
Orange Orchard Last week, the entire family spent the weekend at the hot spa resort of Atagawa, Izu Peninsula in Japan. We visited a wonderful rose garden and an orange orchard. The orchard was a “mikan gari” which means you pay a fixed charge an...
Local Japanese gardens
This Sunday I visited a local seaside park facing the Tokyo Bay. The local newsletter had featured an announcement that a park called the Sodegaura Kaihin Park would hold a festival with the first 200 entrants to the park presented with plants. I was...
Back to my poor li’l garden
If I could hear my plants speak, they would probably be yelling at me to pull out those weeds that were engulfing them, draining away their nutrition and cutting out sunlight! Yes, I returned to my garden in Japan last week; my flowering plants engul...
Visit to Sagar Upavan in Mumbai
On the last day of my two-month stay in Mumbai, I decided to visit a park in Mumbai. Internet searches pointed to the Bombay Port Trust Garden, called Sagar Upavan in Colaba. I hired a taxi and invited my elderly mother and sister for a drive and a s...
Updates from Mumbai
I’m still in Mumbai and in my absence, my friend Utiyama-san has sent me photos of the cuttings that he’s looking after for me. I’m thrilled to find that all of them have grown rapidly, some with flowers already! Thank you so much, Utiyama-san....
Preparations before leaving on a trip
I am off to India for at least a month, and have started my preparations to make it easier for my wife and daughter to care for my garden while I am away. Firstly, I handed over all my cuttings (lantana, fig, hydrangea, gardenia, coleus, yesterday, t...
