I don't know if Tyler has any unique insight on this topic or not , but I'd love to hear about the process of designing their garden, especially spaces with built-in/grown-in benches or spaces for display.
I feel like a lot of bonsai gardens and museums, even very beautiful ones, follow a pattern of lots of hardscape with benches and monkey poles, and the bonsai and accent plants are some of the only growing things in the space. Typically there's gravel over weed barrier for a ground layer. I know it has a lot of advantages especially with maintenance, but residual heat becomes an issue in the middle of summer. A lot of nurseries fit this pattern: Eisei-en, Rakuyo. Even
@MACH5,
@mattspinniken (
insta for reference), and Mirai kinda fit into this, but they definitely have more landscape beds spread throughout their spaces. BTW, I do really like this videos of your garden that you've put on Instagram. I wish I could get such nice moss covered boulders without ripping out fences and beds
I've found Auer Othmar's (
insta) garden a great example of what I'm curious about, though it definitely is a very rigid, formal garden. I've found it really hard to find other gardens that blend landscape design and bonsai spaces well
I just moved into a house and I'm trying to design my garden space now, so I've been looking all over for inspiration. It's a small backyard, but I know there's enough space for dense landscape plantings and maintaining a decent number of trees too. Aiming for a Japanese garden aesthetic, with native plants to provide a lot of pollinator and wildlife support
