How to create an oriental garden
A guide to oriental garden plants
Which plants should you choose for your garden?
While it’s better to limit the number of plants you use in your final planting scheme to keep it more in line with oriental garden principles, there are still lots of great plants to choose from for your garden. You’ve got your camelias, cherry trees, Japanese maples, peonies, hydrangeas and azaleas for structure and flowers. There are bamboos, grasses and irises for vertical accents and soft mounds of moss to carpet the ground and meander between rocks. If you fancy some topiary, evergreens such as yew, box, osmanthus and juniper are just some of your options. Then there’s plenty of bold foliage to be had from shrubs such as hostas, ferns and spotted laurel.
Topiary
The art of topiary is a familiar look in oriental gardens; tightly clipping shrubs to create abstract representations of nature. Softly shaped mounds of osmanthus can resemble waves or mountain ranges, or try clipping cloud-like layers on a stand-alone plant like juniper for a more striking look.
Top 10 oriental garden plants for topiary:
1) Chinese Juniper (Juniperous chinensis)
2) Camellia (sasanqua 'Narumigata')
3) Evergreen azalea (Rhododendron 'Hatsu-giri')
4) Photinia ‘Red Robin’ (Photinia × fraseri)
5) Osmanthus (Osmanthus x burkwoodii)
6) English yew (Taxus baccata)
7) Portuguese laurel (Prunus lusitanica)
8) Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica)
9) Hinoki cypress (Chamaecyparis obtuse)
10) Common box (Buxus sempervirens)
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