I don't like loud, loutish people either Philippa. Japan is very crowded so they have rules about personal space which the Brits don't. At least with paved areas in the garden you can walk steady and place a table and chairs or benches which will be stable.
Couldn't be doing with raking gravel or slippery wet decking either.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
Monty Don explores different aspects of Japanese gardens in a new two-part series on BBC2
For this new two-parter Monty Don is heading east to discover more
about the intricate, unique and detailed world of Japanese gardens.
Starting in a cherry blossom orchard, Monty delves deep into one of
‘the three great gardens of Japan’ and a Zen garden before taking a
lesson in the Japanese tea ceremony.
There was a Japanese Garden in the botanical gardens in Quito that we visited. I felt like the Japanese Ambassador said after looking at some famous ladies version of a Japanese Garden.
"Truly, we have nothing like this in Japan"
You don't stop doing new things because you get old, you get old because you stop doing new things.
the best Japanese garden i've been to in England is the Pure Land meditation centre and Japanese garden near Newark on Trent,
The guy who runs it has done the majority of the garden himself and has adapted many standard British garden plants to a Japanese theme, the best being cloud pruned leylandii!
i even got a free gift as it was my birthday and the gardener is also the cafe owner and makes lovely scones!
In part 2 of the programme tonight Monty went to a rose garden designed by an English man. Monty talked about the rose "Peace" which he said, correctly, had been sent all over the world as Francis Meilland (the French grower) was worried it could be lost because of the war. It was named Madame A. Meilland after his late mother. Monty said that the rose became "Peace" to celebrate the end of the war and that it is called that all over the world. But I live in France and I've never seen it called Peace here. In all the garden centres I have been to it is still Madame A. Meilland.
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Couldn't be doing with raking gravel or slippery wet decking either.