{"id":242,"date":"2015-02-02T14:59:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T13:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hkartor.se\/~vax\/arboretumnorr_wp\/?page_id=242"},"modified":"2025-02-19T13:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T13:02:48","slug":"japanese-garden","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.arboretum-norr.se\/en\/the-arboretum-in-baggbole\/japanese-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Acer shirasawanum<\/em> (Shirasawa’s maple)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It is said that a Japanese garden is a work of art that should be regarded like a painting, where the surroundings form the frame of the painting. Here, in the Arboretum in Baggb\u00f6le, the river, the concrete walls and the beautiful old stone walls play an excellent role as a frame for our interpretation of a Japanese garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as Japan differs in many ways from the rest of East Asia, both in terms of natural geography and culture, our Japanese Garden also differs from the rest of the arboretum. The species we have gathered in our Japanese Garden are trees and shrubs that are native to Japan’s most inaccessible mountainous regions. Some of them are even found in the arboretum’s Siberia or East Asia, where they can be presented in a more authentic way. Here in the Japanese garden, we want to collect and present them in a way that evokes traditional Japanese gardening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we study the culture of Japanese garden, we quickly realize that both stone and water are key elements, and in addition to the river roaring in its immediate vicinity, we have also constructed a brook that ripples through the garden. It starts at the top of the slope and then dances over the stone walls to finally end in a pond. Across the pond, a Zig-Zag bridge leads us to Fredrik Wretman’s artwork 8.11<\/a>, which you can read more about via the link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n