Garden Pics - Garden Photos

Japanese Garden - Flat Garden 03, originally uploaded by darthservo.

This picture was taken of the Flat Garden - a Zen rock garden at the Japanese Garden in Portland Oregon. The rocks are carefully raked in patterns with a gorgeous cherry tree in full bloom hanging over the rocks.

Japanese Garden, originally uploaded by deegs.

Biddulph Grange is a National Trust house and landscaped gardens, situated in Biddulph near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. “Behind a gloomy Victorian shrubbery there’s a gloomy Victorian mansion, but behind that lurks one of the most extraordinary gardens in Britain…it contains whole continents, including China and Ancient Egypt - not to mention Italian terraces and a Scottish glen.

Biddulph Grange, originally uploaded by Mike Rollinger.

In the Egyptian part of the garden, “Two sphinxes guard the mastaba-like entrance to a tunnel, whose darkness is an invitation to explore. Deep inside is a bloody chamber (lit by a hidden window of red-coloured glass) in which squats the half-spooky, half-comic figure of the Ape of Thoth.”

Biddulph Grange, originally uploaded by kev747.

The true brilliance of Biddulph Grange “lies in the way that Cooke and Bateman hid the different areas of the garden from each other, using heaps of rocks and thickly planted shrubberies’ the design locks together as tightly as a jigsaw or a cross-section of the brain.” It contains “a series of Italianate terraces, connected by steps and enclosing small flower gardens’ at the bottom, long, buttressed hedges enclose a dahlia walk.”

Biddulph Grange, originally uploaded by quimby.

Garden Lantern, originally uploaded by Gigapic.

This garden photo really shows the kind of tranquil setting that I would love to have in my backyard one day. I can hear the sound of the water trickling down through the rocks as it weaves through the colourful folliage in this lush Japanese garden. This picture makes it clear to me how moss growing on the stone lantern is a key element when it comes to designing a Japanese garden. These are the kind of small details that need not to be overlooked!