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Friday, January 31, 2014 at 23:03
Jason Hornby in Garden Design, Garden Ideas, Garden Inspiration, garden decking ideas, garden design ideas, garden maintenance, garden services, gardeners, landscaping

Japanese gardens are landscapes in miniature, which are often passed on from generation to generation. There are four main types of Japanese garden: hill and pond gardens, dry gardens, tea gardens and courtyard gardens.

They were often said to contain the elixir of eternal youth, and in the Western world we level the ground for a smooth lawn, however in Japan they add contours to the land for depth and perspective.

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